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Title: Incredible
Review: Expecting a mush of barely discernible religious studies commentary, I found instead an easy-to-read, balanced discussion of especailly important scholars to me such as Reijer Hooykaas, Richard Westfall (his later work on Newton is apparently balanced and spectacular), and H. Floris Cohen.Checking Ronald L. Numbers's p. 4. comments from Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (2007), I see that his comments there are outside the pale with regards to the majority of scholars on both Westfall and Hooykaas. Where most historians science would embrace the work of the mature Hooykaas and soft-peddle the work of the young Westfall, Numbers does just the opposite. Numbers really is off his rocker a bit in his book Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew. No question.
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