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Lecture by Bruce Hindmarsh on Saturday, February 16, 2019 "'Look Upon Nothing as Separate from God: Evangelicals and the Rise of Science" Bruce Hindmarsh is Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. "Look Upon Nothing as Separate from God": Evangelicals and the Rise of Science The significant spiritual awakening in the North Atlantic that appeared in the eighteenth century took place among those who were the first generation to accept the basic postulates of Isaac Newton and to embrace the new science. The world of nature was now neither possessed of a transcendent spiritual form (Plato) nor an immanent spiritual form (Aristotle), so how was one to understand the relation of things spiritual and things material? A number of the early evangelicals engaged with this question in a sophisticated way and this lecture will explore their answers. Jonathan Edwards was a young undergraduate at Yale when Newton's Principia and Opticks were first taken out of their wooden crates and added to the college library collection, and he studied these works exhaustively. John Wesley also produced one of the most comprehensive compendia of the period of the latest findings of science. To these can be added a number of additional figures over the course of the century, including poets, amateur astronomers, mathematicians, and others "thoughtful and religiously minded people who responded to the world revealed by science with "wonder, love, and praise." Lecture by Bruce Hindmarsh "'Look Upon Nothing as Separate from God: Evangelicals and the Rise of Science" It is part of the Lanier Library Lecture Series. A series devoted to bringing world class lectures to benefit the community of all those who might be interested put on by the.Lanier Theological Library in Houston TX I am indebted to the generosity of the library to allow me to share these videos of theirs. Please support them by visiting their website for more information and resources: http://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/ Bio info: Bruce Hindmarsh Bruce Hindmarsh is the James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He earned his D.Phil. degree in Theology at Oxford University in 1993. He was a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford from 1995 to 1997. He has since published and spoken widely to international audiences on the history of early British evangelicalism. Other areas of his expertise include evangelical spirituality, conversion narrative and hymnody His articles have appeared in respected academic journals such as Church History, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly. He is the author of three major books: John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1996), The Evangelical Conversion Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2005), and The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2018). Bruce has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, research grants and fellowships. He has also been a Mayers Research Fellow at the Huntington Library and a holder of the Henry Luce III Theological Fellowship. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a past-president of the American Society of Church History. He teaches the history of Christian spirituality and speaks often to lay audiences, as well as preaching in his own church and elsewhere. He is a former staff worker for Youth for Christ and an active lay member of an Anglican Church. Bruce is married to Carolyn, and they have three children: Bethany, Matthew and Sam.