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Evangelicals and science in historical perspective / edited by David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart and Mark A. Noll.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion in America series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Religion in America series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--History.
- Religion and science.
- Evangelicalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Comprising papers by distinguished scholars, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the USA, as well as in Britain and Canada.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science; 1 The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions; 2 The Puritan Thesis Revisited; 3 Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered; 4 Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan; 5 Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr; 6 Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence Controversy; 7 Scriptural Geology in America; 8 Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution
- 9 Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend10 Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz; 11 A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark; 12 ""The Science of Duty"": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America; 13 Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930; 14 Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American Academy; Afterword; 15 The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on Olympus; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T
- UV; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773906-7
- 1-280-47002-X
- 0-19-535396-X
- 0-585-18275-2
- OCLC:
- 567929604
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