Private doubt, public dilemma : religion and science since Jefferson and Darwin /

Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily to reconcile their reli...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thomson, Keith Stewart (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:Terry lectures.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Religion and science.
Religion et sciences.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The long-standing problem
  • Religion and science
  • Mr. jefferson's dilemma
  • Ancient of days
  • Mr. Darwin's religion
  • The devil and Mr. Darwin
  • Debates and academics
  • Clerics and apes
  • The decline of authority
  • A way forward?
  • Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's Oxford address.

Similar Items