REALITY: A NEW CORRELATION OF SCIENCE & RELIGION BY BURNETT HILLMAN STREETER

Reality: A New Correlation of Science & Religion

Burnett Hillman Streeter
Macmillan & Co., London — 1935
Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Book Details

Title: Reality: A New Correlation of Science & Religion

Author: Burnett Hillman Streeter (Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy)

Publisher: Macmillan & Co., Limited

Publication Year: 1935 (August 1935; first published 1926)

Binding: Maroon cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering

Dust Jacket: Original jacket present; notable wear

Condition

Book: Very well-preserved maroon cloth boards with clean surfaces and strong gilt lettering. Tight binding; pages clean and unmarked aside from a previous owner’s name on front endpaper. Small patch of abrasion on front pastedown. Light toning typical of age.

Dust Jacket: Rare surviving example but with significant age-related wear: edge chipping, tears, browning, and areas of loss, especially at folds. Despite flaws, front and spine panels remain legible.

Description

Burnett Hillman Streeter—renowned biblical scholar, Oxford professor, and influential thinker in early 20th-century liberal theology—offers a major philosophical work exploring the relationship between science, religious experience, and human understanding.

In Reality, Streeter seeks to reconcile the scientific worldview with spiritual insight, arguing that Science and Religion represent “parallel and complementary ways of apprehending Reality.” Topics include:

• Materialism and Mechanism (Newton, Darwin, and the evolution of scientific thought)

• Science, Art, Religion, and differing modes of knowledge

• Metaphor, meaning, and the human experience

• The Life-Force, the Absolute, or God

• Creative Strife as a shaping principle of existence

This 1935 printing includes additional notes and commentary expanding Streeter’s analysis. A significant work of religious philosophy, psychology of religion, and early science-and-faith dialogue.

Rarity / Collectibility

Copies with the original dust jacket are increasingly scarce. Streeter’s influence on 20th-century theological scholarship, combined with his tragic death in an airplane crash in 1937, makes surviving editions of his major works desirable among collectors of religious, philosophical, and Oxford-related literature.