Science and religion in the nineteenth century
Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading sign...
| Subtitles: | Science & Religion in the 19th Century |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1984.
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| In: | Year: 1984 |
| Series/Journal: | Cambridge English prose texts
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Natural sciences
/ History 1800-1900
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521244022 |
| Summary: | Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons (not least their generally being unavailable in suitable editions) are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable. This volume contains selections from nineteenth-century writers involved in the debate about the relation of science and religion. It centres on the Darwinian controversy, with extracts from The Origin Of Species and The Descent of Man, and from opponents and supporters of Darwin. This controversy is placed in the wider context of the earlier debates on geology and evolution; the relation of science to Natural Theology; the effect of Biblical Criticism on the interpretation of Genesis; and the professionalisation of science by aggressively agnostic scientists. William Paley, Natural Theology (1802), Chapters 1-3 -- Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), Chapter 14, 'Hypothesis of the Development of the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms' -- Hugh Miller, The Testimony of Rocks (1857), Lecture Fifth, 'Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies', Part I -- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter 14, 'Recapitulation and Conclusion' -- Charles Goodwin, 'On the Mosaic Cosmogony', Essays and Reviews (1860) -- Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1903), vol. 1, Chapter 14, '1859-1860' -- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), Chapter 21, 'General Summary and Conclusion' -- John Tyndall, 'The Belfast Address', Nature, 20 August 1874 -- Frederick Temple, The Relations between Religion and Science (1884), Lecture VI, 'Apparent Collision between Religion and the Doctrine of Evolution'; and Lecture VII, 'The Conclusion of the Argument' |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511553617 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511553615 |