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Evangelicals and science in historical perspective /

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, E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Livingstone, David N., 1953-, Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.), Noll, Mark A., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Colección:Religion in America series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.