A study of the relations between psychology and religion by a medical psychologist
I - 'The Scope of Psychology'
'Religion and Science' is a headline to which, from the days of the Darwinian controversy, we have become well used. Today the words 'Religion and the Sciences' would better represent the issue, into so many sub-divisions has 'Science' been split.
One of the youngest of the sciences is psychology, and - from the point of view of religion - it is perhaps the most important of all.
Many nineteenth-century scientists assumed that 'Science' contradicted religion; some of their successors, who represent one school of psychologists, claim that psychology does not so much contradict religion as explain it away. This is obviously a more dangerous form of attack.
The medical psychologist who is to give a series of five lectures with the title 'We have reason to believe' is not of this school. He has studied both psychology and religion, and after carefully defining the two terms, he will explain the relations that, in his judgment, should rule between them.