A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, published in two volumes in 1896 and grown out of a lecture he first gave in 1869, is the other major primary text of the conflict thesis, arguing at length that organized theology has repeatedly obstructed scientific progress throughout Western history. It is cited here as the historical object of study, an influential and widely read statement of that thesis, not as a reliable modern account of the episodes it narrates. Its limit is well documented, historians have overturned or substantially qualified several of White's specific historical claims, and the conflict thesis itself is now considered by most historians of science to oversimplify a genuinely more varied relationship. Cite it for its documented influence and pair any specific historical claim it makes with a modern historian's assessment.