Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective

• Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with SciencePart I. Overview1: John Hedley Brooke: The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical DimensionsPart II. Orientations2: John Morgan: The Puritan Thesis Revisited3: Edward B. Davis: Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis ReconsideredPart III. Theological Engagements4: Mark A. Noll: Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan5: David W. Bebbington: Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr6: Jonathan R. Topham: Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence ControversyPart IV. Specific Encounters7: Rodney L. Stiling: Scriptural Geology in America8: David N. Livingstone: Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution9: James Moore: Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend10: Ronald L. Numbers: Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz11: Larry Eskridge: A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's ArkPart V. Wider Domains12: Allen C. Guelzo: "The Science of Duty": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America13: Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie: Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-193014: D. G. Hart: Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American AcademyAfterword15: George Marsden: The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on OlympusIndex

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