Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Corsi, Pietro.

Title Science and religion : Baden Powell and the Anglican debate, 1800-1860 / Pietro Corsi
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  261.55 Cor/Sar  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Part I. Biographical Introduction. 1. The Hackney Phalanx: a family network. 2. Baden Powell's early theological papers. 3. Baden Powell's reflections on science in the early 1820s. 4. Science and religion in the 1820s. 5. Rational Religion Examined. 6. Baden Powell between Oriel and Hackney -- Part II. Baden Powell and the Noetic School. 7. The teaching of Richard Whately. 8. The collision. 9. Science and academic politics at Oxford: 1825-1835. 10. Science and revelation: 1826-1836 -- Part III. The New Synthesis and its Developments. 11. The methodology of science. 12. The Christian apologetic and the fallacies of natural theology. 13. Christian tolerance. 14. The parting of the ways: Baden Powell versus Richard Whately -- Part IV. The Question of Species. 15. The French threat . 16. Species without Darwin. 17. Towards the Origin. 18. Conclusions
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 292-337
Notes Online version of the print title
Mode of access: World Wide Web
System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader
Subject Powell, Baden, 1796-1860.
Religion and science -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and science -- 1800-1859
Religion and science.
LC no. 87013845
ISBN 0521242452