Michael A. Flannery is Professor Emeritus of UAB Libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology, among other books.

"This is a superbly written, quite concise account of a lesser-known, but clearly important American philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. Boodin's work clearly deserves to be better known, and Flannery does an excellent job in providing a very well-written account of this interesting individual's contribution." — Patrick H. Armstrong, author of All Things Darwin

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Who Was John Elof Boodin? Introduction: Science and Its "Mad Clockwork of Epicycles": The Key to Understanding Boodin1. Boodin's Time2. Pragmatic Realism: Boodin's Metaphysics3. Evolution, 19254. A Theological Trilogy5. The Social Mind: Boodin's Sociology of Spirit6. Boodin in a Hostile WorldEpilogueAppendixGlossary of Important TermsNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael A. Flannery is Professor Emeritus of UAB Libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology, among other books.

"This is a superbly written, quite concise account of a lesser-known, but clearly important American philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. Boodin's work clearly deserves to be better known, and Flannery does an excellent job in providing a very well-written account of this interesting individual's contribution." — Patrick H. Armstrong, author of All Things Darwin

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Who Was John Elof Boodin? Introduction: Science and Its "Mad Clockwork of Epicycles": The Key to Understanding Boodin1. Boodin's Time2. Pragmatic Realism: Boodin's Metaphysics3. Evolution, 19254. A Theological Trilogy5. The Social Mind: Boodin's Sociology of Spirit6. Boodin in a Hostile WorldEpilogueAppendixGlossary of Important TermsNotesBibliographyIndex