The Post-Darwinian Controversies - A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900 (Paperback, Revised)

The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. The middle section of the book distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological lineage of their views. The paradox that emerges - that Darwin's theory was accepted in substance only by those whose theology was distinctly orthodox theology and of other evolutionary theories with liberal and romantic theological speculation.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1981
First published:	1979
Authors:	James R. Moore
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	528
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-28517-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
LSN:	0-521-28517-8
Barcode:	9780521285179

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