Title Evangelicals and science in historical perspective / edited by David N. Livingstone, D.G. Hart, Mark A. Noll

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 351 pages) : illustrations Series Religion in America series Contents Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science; PART I. Overview; 1 The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions; PART II. Orientations; 2 The Puritan Thesis Revisited; 3 Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered; PART III. Theological Engagements; 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 PART IV. Specific Encounters7 Scriptural Geology in America; 8 Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution; 9 Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend; 10 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; PART V. Wider Domains; 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 OlympusIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Summary Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with SciencePart I. Overview1. The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions, John Hedley BrookePart II. Orientations2. The Puritan Thesis Revisited, John Morgan3. Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered, Edward B. DavisPart III. Theological Engagements4. Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan, Mark A. Noll5. Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr, David W. Bebbington6. Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Centu Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Religion and science -- History. Evangelicalism -- History Evangelicalism Religion and science Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Livingstone, David N., 1953- Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.) Noll, Mark A., 1946- ISBN 019535396X 9780195353969

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