The Church voice and the Catholic speech about science in Argentina at the end of the XIX century
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https://doi.org/10.53439/revitin.2014.01.07Keywords:
Christianism and science, catholic church, nineteenth centuryAbstract
Although for sometime the historiography has tended to study the link between Christianity and science through the lens of conflict, in recent decades, and particularly among Anglo-Saxon authors, the dominant perspective has started to shift towards a vision that emphasizes complexity. Building upon such changes, this article aims to reconstruct the discourses about science voiced by the newspaper La Voz de la Iglesia, published between 1893 and 1911 and, strongly connected to the Archbishopric of Buenos Aires. In the pages of this newspaper one can observe a constant effort to depict a Catholic Church in harmony with scientific progress-one building upon a neo-thomismtic discourse, according to which faith was by no means an enemy of scientific research, but was necessarily subordinated to Revelation. In this sense, a division between a “good” and a “bad” science proves essential, the first one being postulated as an ally of faith and the second as an act of absurd human arrogance-arrogance that would increasingly attributed to positivism.
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