Chapter Eleven: History, Culture, And Faith
CHAPTER ELEVEN: HISTORY, CULTURE, AND FAITH
1. William Hazlitt, Essays (London: Walter Scott, 1889), 269.
2. Proverb 14, contained in Durham Cathedral MS B.III.32. See O. Arngart, “Further Notes on the Durham Proverbs,” English Studies 58 (1977): 101–4.
3. Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 28.
4. See the analysis in Robert J. Louden, The World We Want: How and Why the Ideals of the Enlightenment Still Elude Us (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
5. Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve, 2007), 277–83.
6. Peter Atkins, “Atheism and Science,” in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, ed. Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 136.
7. Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
8. Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution, 87–89.
9. J. R. R. Tolkien, “Mythopoeia,” in Tree and Leaf (London: HarperCollins, 1992), 85–90, with quote from 89.
10. See the famous vision of God’s renewed and restored creation in Isa. 2:4: People “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
11. Louis F. Fieser, “The Synthesis of Vitamin K,” Science 91 (1940): 31–36.
12. For this and other themes in the debate over the use of the atom bomb, see J. Samuel Walker, “History, Collective Memory, and the Decision to Use the Bomb,” Diplomatic History 19 (Spring 1995): 319–28.
13. See http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1995/rotblat-lecture.html.
14. For this speech—likely as an introduction to the 49th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, held at Rustenburg, South Africa—see Joseph Rotblat, “Science and Humanity in the Twenty-First Century,” 6 September 1999, http:////nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1995/rotblat-article.html?print=1#foot note1.