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By James R. Moore

ISBN-10: 0521219892

ISBN-13: 9780521219891

ISBN-10: 0521285178

ISBN-13: 9780521285179

The Post-Darwinian Controversies bargains an unique interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic viewpoint and as a constitutive a part of the historical past of post-Darwinian evolutionary concept. The effect of evolutionary conception at the spiritual cognizance of the 19th century has typically been visible when it comes to a 'conflict' or 'warfare' among technology and theology. Dr. Moore's account starts through discussing the polemical origins and baneful results of the 'military metaphor', and this results in a revised view of the controversies in response to an research of the underlying highbrow fight to return to phrases with Darwin. the center part of the ebook distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the most currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary proposal, and is through chapters which learn the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological lineage in their perspectives. the ambiguity that emerges - that Darwin's idea was once authorized in substance basically via these whose theology was once highly orthodox theology and of alternative evolutionary theories with liberal and romantic theological speculation.

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