The creationist debate : the encounter between the Bible and the historical mind / Arthur McCalla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCalla, Arthur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creationism.

Bible and evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (559 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whereas scholarly study of Creationism usually places it in the context of religion and the history or philosophy of science, The Creationist Debate , here revised and completely updated in its second edition, has been written in the conviction that creationism is ultimately about the status of the Bible in the modern world. Creationism as a modern ideology exists in order to defend the authority of the Bible as a repository of transhistorical truth from the challenges of any and all historical sciences. It belongs to and is inseparable from Protestant Fundamentalists' desire to resubject the

Contents:

Cover-Page; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; 1 The Two Books; Renaissance symbolic exegesis; The turn to "plain sense"; Galileo, Kepler, Bacon; Natural theology; 2 Earth History; World-machine; Fossils; A former world; 3 Chronology; The discipline of chronology; Pre-Adamites; Ancient theology and China Jesuits; The threat to biblical exceptionalism; 4 Universal Histories; Universal histories; Isaac Newton, Chronologist; Vico's new science; Between sacred and secular history; 5 The Birth of Deep Time

Time and the machineHistorical geology; Diluvial geology; Deep time and the history of life; 6 "Creation's Final Law"; Deep time and the divine order; Scenes from deep time; "Are God and Nature then at strife?"; 7 Biblical Criticism; Textual criticism; Enlightenment rationalist criticism; Progressive revelation; The higher criticism; Crossroads; Essays and Reviews; 8 Evolution and Design; Fixity of species; Evolution by natural selection; Induction; A devil's chaplain; Evolution as development; Evolution and theology; 9 Prehistoric Humans; Human prehistory; Developmentalist anthropology

Soul and mindPaleoanthropology; 10 The Bible in America; A democratic Bible; Liberal Protestantism; Reactionary biblicism; 11 Fundamentalism; An inerrant Bible; The higher criticism and evolution; The battle for Christian America; The Scopes trial; Fundamentalist separatism; 12 Young-Earth Creationism; The Genesis Flood; A science of the catacombs; Creation evangelism; 13 Creation Science; The two-model strategy; Sleight of hand; Schools and law courts; Islamic creation science; Vedic creation science; 14 Intelligent Design; Emergence of intelligent design creationism; The Wedge strategy

Theistic historyIntelligent design on trial; 15 Harmonization in Historical Perspective; Progressive Christianity; Theology of science; The history of religions; Secularist harmonization strategies; Harmonization and historical-mindedness; Epilogue; Follow the Debate; Science and science education; Young-earth creationism; Intelligent design creationism; Christianity and science; New Atheists; Notes; Prologue; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Epilogue

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781623567910

1623567912

9781623561109

1623561108