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Monkey Trials & Gorilla Sermons

by Peter J. Bowler
Nick Williams
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From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.

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Publisher: Harvard University Press Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780674028449
  • File size: 195075 KB
  • Release date: December 11, 2007
  • Duration: 06:46:24

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  • ISBN: 9780674028449
  • File size: 195340 KB
  • Release date: December 11, 2007
  • Duration: 06:46:22
  • Number of parts: 6

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History Religion & Spirituality Nonfiction

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From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.

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History Religion & Spirituality Nonfiction
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