Complex sentence: A course of his lectures, "On the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion", deservedly attracted much attention; his general thesis was that whereas scientific teaching has repeatedly been thought to disprove Christian doctrine, further investigation has shown that a reconstruction is possible.
Split into simpler sentences: A course of his lectures, "On the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion", attracted much attention. His general thesis was that whereas scientific teaching had repeatedly been thought to disprove Christian doctrine, further investigation has shown that a reconstruction is possible.