Abstract
It was at Gottingen, Germany, that the modern conversations between theology and natural science began. The Gottinger Physiker-Theologen Gesprache were the brainchild of two University of Gottingen professors, Professor of Mathematics, Gunter Howe (1908-1968) and Professor of Physics, C.F. Von Weizsacker (1912- ). Christians both, they were concerned that the kind of intensity that the church had shown during the war in the struggle with Nazi-ism should, in the post-war era, be turned to integrating the insights of theology and natural science to rebuild the post-war world. This was particularly true, according to Howe, who called the first conversation for the summer of 1949, because, “the second era of the industrial age” in which we had been living since 1945 had untold, and as yet unfathomed implications for the way we would eventually think about and understand the reality of the world.