Evangelicals and Science in Historical PerspectiveDavid N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, Mark A. Noll Oxford University Press, 1999 M04 8 - 360 pages In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evangelicals often took their place among prominent practicing scientists, and their perspectives exerted a considerable impact on the development of modern western science. Over the last century, however, evangelical scientists have become less visible, even as the focus of evangelical engagement has shifted to political and cultural spheres. 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 resource for understanding the historical context of contemporary political squabbles, such as the debate over the status of creation science and the teaching of evolution. |
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... Numbers A Sign for an Unbelieving Age : Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark 244 Larry Eskridge PART V. Wider Domains 12 " The Science of Duty " : Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth - Century America ...
... Numbers A Sign for an Unbelieving Age : Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark 244 Larry Eskridge PART V. Wider Domains 12 " The Science of Duty " : Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth - Century America ...
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... number of late Victorian works of historical apologetic , the connections between science and religion were routinely cast in the pugilistic language of warfare , struggle , and conflict . Such aggressive metaphors have been common ...
... number of late Victorian works of historical apologetic , the connections between science and religion were routinely cast in the pugilistic language of warfare , struggle , and conflict . Such aggressive metaphors have been common ...
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... Numbers , that evangelicalism could encompass a wide range of engagements with science , depending upon time , place ... number of essays in a volume reassessing the significance of science in the Pacific world during Darwin's century.12 ...
... Numbers , that evangelicalism could encompass a wide range of engagements with science , depending upon time , place ... number of essays in a volume reassessing the significance of science in the Pacific world during Darwin's century.12 ...
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... number of more or less imaginative strategies , such as their elaboration of a variety of harmonizing schemes to square the biblical creation narratives with geology's portrayal of a deep past , their remarkable willingness to ...
... number of more or less imaginative strategies , such as their elaboration of a variety of harmonizing schemes to square the biblical creation narratives with geology's portrayal of a deep past , their remarkable willingness to ...
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... Numbers directs our attention to the genesis of this modern movement . His investigation , moreover , links with the same sorts of issue about labels and terms that Morgan addressed for a earlier period . In Numbers's telling , the ...
... Numbers directs our attention to the genesis of this modern movement . His investigation , moreover , links with the same sorts of issue about labels and terms that Morgan addressed for a earlier period . In Numbers's telling , the ...
Contents
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PART II Orientations | 41 |
PART III Theological Engagements | 97 |
PART IV Specific Encounters | 175 |
PART V Wider Domains | 265 |
Afterword | 327 |
Index | 341 |
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