Conference: The Holy Spirit, Science, and Theological Education: Fourth Annual Conference in Renewal TheologyAt: Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, 2016
He is not widely known outside of the fields he specialized in, but Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de ... more He is not widely known outside of the fields he specialized in, but Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797-1886), usually known in the Anglophone world as simply Saint-Venant, was one of the premier scientists, engineers and mathematicians of the nineteenth century. Yet his religious and political stances made him unpopular in his native France, whose struggle over the place of Christianity in the life of the nation occupied most of his lifetime and beyond. Saint-Venant's achievements took place in a context of lost career opportunities, recognition of his achievements outside of the country and even among committed secularists, and finally the admiration of the French scientific establishment. This overview of his life and work shows his struggles and achievements in a familiar field of conflict but in an entirely different legal and social environment from the one we have today, with lessons for our own time.
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