There is an intrinsic difference between the empirical field of hard science on the one hand and theology and the more speculative fields of philosophy on the other. (johnquiggin.com)
We stand in amazement that Whitehead saw this so clearly in his adopted field of philosophy but not in his native field of mathematics. (religion-online.org)
«Cut off from fruitful intercourse with other thinkers, drawn away from the stimulating field of philosophy into the arid realm of theology, it was his fate to devote his noble gifts to the thankless task of reimprisoning the mind of New England within a system from which his nature and his powers summoned him to unshackle it. (religion-online.org)