Protestant Modernist Pamphlets

Science and Religion in the Scopes Era

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A critical edition of ten rare pamphlets on science and religion published from 1922–1931 by the University of Chicago Divinity School.In the years surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925, liberal Protestant scientists, theologians, and clergy sought to diminish opposition to evolution and to persuade American Christians to adopt more positive attitudes toward modern science. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and many leading scientists, the University of Chicago Divinity School published a series of ten pamphlets on science and religion to counter William Jennings Bryan's efforts to ban evolution in public schools. In Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, historian Edward B. Davis, who discovered these pamphlets, reprints them with extensive editorial comments, annotations, and introductions to each. Based on unpublished correspondence and internal Divinity School documents, these introductions narrate the origin of the pamphlets, as well as their funding sources and how readers reacted to them. Letters from dozens of top scientists at the time reveal their previously unknown views on God and the relationship between science and religion. Viewed together, the pamphlets and Davis's critical assessment of their historical importance provide an intriguing perspective on Protestant modernist encounters with science in the early twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-08
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMedicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
Antal sidor336
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421449821

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Abbreviations and Archives CitedPrefacePart One: Protestant Modernist Responses to BryanIntroduction1. "Spiking Bryan's Guns": Contested Definitions of "Science" and "Religion"2. Liberal Protestant Scientists and Clergy Join Forces: The Story of the AISL Pamphlets3. Science and Religion, Chicago Style: The Protestant Modernist Encounter with SciencePart Two: The AISL "Science and Religion" Pamphlets, Editorial Introductions and Annotated TextsEvolution and the Bible (1922), by Edwin Grant ConklinEvolution and Mr. Bryan (1922), by Harry Emerson FosdickHow Science Helps Our Faith (1922), by Shailer MathewsA Scientist Confesses His Faith (1923), by Robert Andrews MillikanThe Heavens are Telling (1924), by Edwin Brant FrostThrough Science to God, The Humming Bird's Story, An Evolutionary Interpretation (1926), by Samuel Christian SchmuckerCreative Co-ordination (1928), by Michael Idvorsky PupinReligion's Debt to Science (1928), by Harry Emerson FosdickLife After Death (1930), by Arthur Holly Compton, Shailer Mathews, and Charles W. GilkeyThe Religion of a Geologist (1931), Kirtley Fletcher MatherAppendices1. Publication Details for AISL Pamphlet Series "Science and Religion" and Related Publications2. Publication Runs for AISL Pamphlets and the Millikan "Statement"3A. Scientists Who Supported AISL Pamphlets, 1922–19283B. Scientists Who Supported AISL Pamphlets, 1928–1934NotesIndex

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