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Evangelicals and science in historical perspective

Author: David N Livingstone; D G Hart; Mark A Noll; George M Marsden
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective offers the first wide-ranging survey of the history of the encounter between evangelical Protestantism and science. Comprising papers by leading historians of science and religion, this collection shows that the questions of science have been central to the history of evangelicalism in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It will be an invaluable  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
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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Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to  Read more...

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