Bill Baker once wrote that "humanism and science coexist, occasionally connect, but rarely conjoin".
So the deal that defined modern society was a covenant between humanism and science in which the latter provided the means for achieving the ends specified by the former.
The division between humanism and science is recent, an Enlightenment idea, a Cartesian duality, and like many such ideas, it served at first to advance a discourse it may now impede.
If we want to say that humanism (or science or football) is a religion, or even "like" a religion, what we're really saying is that there's some immutable core to "being religious", and that this bubbles to the surface no matter how hard anyone tries to repress it.
For Nishitani, humanism and science were incapable of overcoming this dilemma of reification vs. nullification; in fact, they had helped create it.
Renaissance humanism and science figured large in the Dudley children's education.
Prominent Sephardic rabbis, such as Moses Maimonides and Abraham ibn Ezra, disdained clericalism while espousing humanism and science.
So Zukor launched the Freethought Books Project, collecting books about atheism, humanism and science and sending them to interested prisoners.
The Dudleys moved in evangelical circles from the early 1530s, and their children were educated in Renaissance humanism and science by tutors and companions such as Roger Ascham, John Dee, and Thomas Wilson.
The Dudleys belonged to the new evangelical circles of the early 1530s, and their 13 children were educated in Renaissance humanism and science.
