Livingstone

David N Livingstone, D G Hart, and Mark A Noll (Editors)Biblio.com

Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective First Edition

1999réf. 081985New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a collection of scholarly essays that provides the first wide-ranging historical survey of the relationship between evangelical Protestantism and science in the English-speaking world primarily Britain the United States and Canada. The volume challenges simplistic “conflict” narratives by showing that encounters between evangelicals and science have been varied contingent on time and place and often shaped more by social cultural and institutional factors than by pure theological opposition to scientific claims. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many evangelicals actively participated in scientific work and generally viewed the study of nature favorably as revealing God’s handiwork. Figures associated with early evangelicalism such as John Wesley Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards were largely supportive of the emerging sciences. By the nineteenth century geological findings that challenged traditional readings of the earth’s age and the Flood prompted a range of responses: some evangelicals adapted their biblical interpretations others became leading geologists and a minority developed “scriptural geology” or later Flood geology. Responses to Darwinian evolution were similarly diverse and location-specific rather than uniformly hostile. Over the twentieth century visible evangelical engagement with professional science declined as evangelical energy shifted more toward political and cultural spheres. The essays argue that science has nevertheless remained central to evangelical identity and debate and that the history is more complex than either pure hostility or simple harmony. ABOUT THIS COPY: Boards are covered in textured clay blue paper. Covers are plain with silver foil lettering on the spine. Book is divided into five parts: 1 Overview; 2 Orientations; 3 Theological Engagements; 4 Specific Encounters; and 5 Wider Domains. Also contains an afterward and is indexed. vi 351 pp. Dust jacket is a dark turquoise with white lettering. Both book and dust jacket are in fine very nice condition. Full refund if not satisfied. Oxford University Press hardcover

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