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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism /

Darwin?s theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to enthusiastic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cantor, G. N., 1943-, Swetlitz, Marc, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anglo-Jewish responses to evolution / Geoffrey Cantor
  • Responses to evolution by Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis in twentieth-century America / Marc Swetlitz
  • "Practically, I am a fundamentalist" : twentieth-century Orthodox Jews contend with evolution and its implications / Ira Robinson
  • The impact of social Darwinism on anti-Semitic ideology in Germany and Austria, 1860-1945 / Richard Weikart
  • The evolution of Jewish identity : Ignaz Zollschan between Jewish and Aryan race theories, 1910-1945 / Paul Weindling
  • Zionism, race, and eugenics / Raphael Falk
  • Crisis management via biblical interpretation : fundamentalism, modern Orthodoxy, and Genesis / Shai Cherry
  • Torah and madda? : evolution in the Jewish educational context / Rena Selya
  • Modern Orthodoxy and evolution : the models of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi A.I. Kook / Carl Feit
  • The order of creation and the emerging God : evolution and divine action in the natural world / Lawrence Troster.