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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David N Livingstone; D G Hart; Mark A Noll; George M Marsden |
| ISBN: | 0195115570 9780195115574 |
| OCLC Number: | 37024226 |
| Description: | vi, 351 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The history of science and religion : some evangelical dimensions / John Hedley Brooke -- The Puritan thesis revisited / John Morgan -- Christianity and early modern science : the Foster thesis reconsidered / Edward B. Davis -- Science, theology, and society : from Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan / Mark A. Noll -- Science and evangelical theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr / David W. Bebbington -- Science, natural theology, and evangelicalism in early nineteenth-century Scotland : Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence controversy / Jonathan R. Topham -- Scriptural geology in America / Rodney L. Stiling -- Situating evangelical responses to evolution / David N. Livingstone -- Telling tales : evangelicals and the Darwin legend / James Moore -- Creating creationism : meanings and uses since the age of Agassiz / Ronald L. Numbers -- A sign for an unbelieving age : evangelicals and the search for Noah's ark / Larry Eskridge -- "The science of duty" : moral philosophy and the epistemology of science in nineteenth-century America / Allen C. Guelzo -- Toward a Christian social science in Canada, 1890-1930 / Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie -- Evangelicals, Biblical scholarship, and the politics of the modern American academy / D. G. Hart -- The meaning of science for Christians : a new dialogue on Olympus / George Marsden. |
| Series Title: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press) |
| Responsibility: | edited by David N. Livingstone, D.G. Hart, Mark A. Noll. |
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We give a warm recommendation to a scholarly and stimulating book. Brethren Archivists & Historians Network Review Here is a book to savour and enjoy. It is a scholarly volume, pleasingly produced. Brethren Archivists & Historians Network Review Has much to say to historians of science ... these essays are all fascinating ... this is a beginning rather than an ending, and for making that start, it is to be commended. British Journal for the History of Science The essays succeed brilliantly in their essential purpose of demonstrating that the many encounters between Evangelicals and science, far fom being a mere ideological Punch and Judy show, are deserving of the most careful investigation from historians and theologians alike. Theology This collection contributes significantly to understanding the encounter between science and religion in the period studied. American Historical Review 18/04/2002 Read more...
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