Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
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PSCF |
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| Discipline | Science and Religion |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Arie Leegwater |
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Publication history
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1949 as ASA Bulletin 1950 to 1986 as Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 1987-present as current title |
| Frequency | quarterly |
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0892-2675 |
| OCLC no. | 61313836 |
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Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, subtitled Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation is the academic publication of the American Scientific Affiliation.
The ASA's original constitution provided two goals for the ASA: "(1) to promote and encourage the study of the relationship between the facts of science and Holy Scriptures and (2) to promote the dissemination of the results of such studies." The establishment of the journal was seen as being in context of these goals. The journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Serials Database.
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (PSCF) began publication in 1949 as the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation (JASA). In its first year the journal was subtitled The American Scientific Affiliation Bulletin. In its first issue it announced its purpose as being:
It is intended primarily for the benefit of the A.S.A. members, and interested friends, and it is hoped that it will be instrumental in helping the organization achieve its primary purpose of witnessing to the truth of the Scriptures and elucidating the relationship of both the ideology and fruits of science thereto. Furthermore we confidently expect that in the publication of papers presented at the convention and others received from the membership at large, a real service will be rendered each of us in creating an enlarged appreciation and understanding of the Christian position in other fields of science than that of our own specialization. Also thru the A.S.A. Bulletin, we plan to give every interested member the benefit of a constructive criticism and Christian evaluation of papers presented and of reviews of books of great interest or strategic importance.
From its beginning the journal included divergent views, and the editorial objectives of the journal, published in December 1950, were a clear indication of the ASA's non-doctrinal focus.
The editors of the JASA/PSCF have been as follows:
The ASA journal published various views in the creation–evolution controversy. It carried Bernard Ramm's view that the theory of evolution had logical weakness, a 1949 article on "presuppositions in evolutionary thinking" by Young Earth creationist E. Y. Monsma,J. Laurence Kulp's 1950 indictment of "Deluge Geology", and Henry M. Morris's anonymous reply to it.
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