Faith and Science: Religious or Rational?

Abstract

186faith and science: religious or rational?Renaissance, which included scientific discovery and a wholly new appreciation of the natural world. 3 The image of a secular and rational Renaissance remains part of popular perceptions of the period. Modern scholars have, however, largely abandoned the view. They treat Renaissance society as at once religious and secular and blur the distinctions among its scientific, philosophic, spiritual, and superstitious activities. 4