Reading Genesis after Darwin / edited by Stephen C. Barton, David Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Stephen C.

Wilkinson, David, Rev. Dr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and science.

Bible and evolution.

Bible. Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible and science--History.

Bible and evolution--History.

Bible. Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

History.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Physical Description:

xiv, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has changed the landscape of religious thought in many ways. There is a widespread assumption that, before Darwin, all Christians believed that the world was created some 6,000 years ago over a period of six days. After Darwin, the first chapters of Genesis were either rejected totally by skeptics or defended vehemently in scientific creationism. This book tells a very different story. Bringing together contributions from biblical scholars, historians, and contemporary theologians, it is demonstrated that both Jewish and Christian scholars read Genesis in a nonliteral way long before Darwin. Even during the nineteenth century, there was a wide range of responses from religious believers toward evolution, many of them very positive. Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson argue that being receptive to the continuing relevance of Genesis today regarding questions of gender, cosmology, and the environment is a lively option.

Contents:

Introduction / Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson

How should one read the early chapters of Genesis? / Walter Moberly

Genesis before Darwin : why Scripture needed liberating from science / Francis Watson

The six days of creation according to the Greek Fathers / Andrew Louth

The hermeneutics of reading Genesis after Darwin / Richard S. Briggs

What difference did Darwin make? : the interpretation of Genesis in the nineteenth century / John Rogerson

Genesis and the scientists : dissonance among the harmonizers / John Hedley Brooke

Science and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape art / David Brown

Reading Genesis 1-3 in the light of modern science / David Wilkinson

All God's creatures : reading Genesis on human and nonhuman animals / David Clough

Evolution and evil : the difference Darwinism makes in theology and spirituality / Jeff Astley

"Male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27) : interpreting gender after Darwin / Stephen C. Barton

Propriety and trespass : the drama of eating / Ellen F. Davis

The plausibility of creationism : a sociological comment / Mathew Guest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780195383355

0195383354

9780195383362

0195383362

OCLC:

310171812