Evolutionary theory applied to religion in the synthetic philosophy of Herbert Spencer and its critique in the work of Karel Statečný
2013
Abstract
The majority of this chapter is devoted to the criticism of attitudes towards religion in the work of the British positivistic Philosopher and Darwinist Herbert Spencer published by Czech Catholic philosopher and theologian Karel Statečný in the large study "On Spencer's 'Unknowable'". The second part refers to the shift in the theology of Karl Statečný after his conversion to the Czechoslovak Church.
Although Statečný left the Thomistic method of argumentation and in his theological reflections calls for an acceptance of the principle of evolution yet he doesn't abandon his critique of positivism.