When Science and Christianity Meet
368 pages, 12 halftones, 47 line drawings 6 x 9
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2003
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226482149
Published October 2003
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226482163
Published September 2008
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor David C. Lindberg 2. Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos David C. Lindberg 3. Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe William B. Ashworth Jr. 4. Matter, Force, and the Christian Worldview in the Enlightenment Thomas H. Broman 5. Noah's Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History Janet Browne 6. Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain Mott T. Greene 7. "Men before Adam!": American Debates over the Unity and Antiquity of Humanity G. Blair Nelson 8. Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity David N. Livingston 9. Science, Miracles, and the Prayer-Gauge Debate Robert Bruce Mullin 10. Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-45 Jon H. Roberts 11. The Scopes Trial in History and Legend Edward J. Larson 12. Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs Ronald L. Numbers Notes A Guide to Further Reading Contributors Index
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