Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective

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• Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science Part I. Overview 1: John Hedley Brooke: The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions Part II. Orientations 2: John Morgan: The Puritan Thesis Revisited 3: Edward B. Davis: Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered Part III. Theological Engagements 4: Mark A. Noll: Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan 5: David W. Bebbington: Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr 6: Jonathan R. Topham: Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence Controversy Part IV. Specific Encounters 7: Rodney L. Stiling: Scriptural Geology in America 8: David N. Livingstone: Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution 9: James Moore: Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend 10: Ronald L. Numbers: Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz 11: Larry Eskridge: A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark Part V. Wider Domains 12: Allen C. Guelzo: "The Science of Duty": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America 13: Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie: Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930 14: D. G. Hart: Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American Academy Afterword 15: George Marsden: The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on Olympus Index