Download or read book Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity written by William Henry Ruffner and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storm of Words written by Monte Hampton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum southern culture. Respected for both their erudition and elite constituency, these theologians identified the southern society as representing a divine, Biblically ordained order. Beginning in the 1840s, however, this facile identification became more difficult to maintain, colliding first with antislavery polemics, then with Confederate defeat and reconstruction, and later with women’s rights, philosophical empiricism, literary criticisms of the Bible, and that most salient symbol of modernity, natural science. As Monte Harrell Hampton shows in Storm of Words, modern science seemed most explicitly to express the rationalistic spirit of the age and threaten the Protestant conviction that science was the faithful “handmaid” of theology. Southern Presbyterians disposed of some of these threats with ease. Contemporary geology, however, posed thornier problems. Ambivalence over how to respond to geology led to the establishment in 1859 of the Perkins Professorship of Natural Science in Connexion with Revealed Religion at the seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. Installing scientist-theologian James Woodrow in this position, southern Presbyterians expected him to defend their positions. Within twenty-five years, however, their anointed expert held that evolution did not contradict scripture. Indeed, he declared that it was in fact God’s method of creating. The resulting debate was the first extended evolution controversy in American history. It drove a wedge between those tolerant of new exegetical and scientific developments and the majority who opposed such openness. Hampton argues that Woodrow believed he was shoring up the alliance between science and scripture—that a circumscribed form of evolution did no violence to scriptural infallibility. The traditionalists’ view, however, remained interwoven with their identity as defenders of the Lost Cause and guardians of southern culture. The ensuing debate triggered Woodrow’s dismissal. It also capped a modernity crisis experienced by an influential group of southern intellectuals who were grappling with the nature of knowledge, both scientific and religious, and its relationship to culture—a culture attempting to define itself in the shadow of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Download or read book Science and Medicine in the Old South written by Ronald Numbers and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a few notable exceptions, historians have tended to ignore the role that science and medicine played in the antebellum South. The fourteen essays in Science and Medicine in the Old South help to redress that neglect by considering scientific and medical developments in the early nineteenth-century South and by showing the ways in which the South’s scientific and medical activities differed from those of other regions. The book is divided into two sections. The essays in the first section examine the broad background of science in the South between 1830 and 1860; the second section addresses medicine specifically. The essays frequently counterpoint each other. In the first section, Ronald Numbers and Janet Numbers argue that he South’s failure to “keep pace” with the North in scientific areas resulted from demographic factors. William Scarborough asserts that slavery produced a social structure that encouraged agricultural and political careers rather than scientific and industrial ones. Charles Dew offers a strong indictment of slavery, suggesting that the conservative influence of the institution severely discouraged the adoption of modern technologies. Other essays examine institutions of higher learning in the South, southern scientific societies, and the relationship between science and theology. The section on medicine in the Old South also examines the ways in which the medical needs and practices of the Old South were both similar to and distinct from those of other regions. K. David Patterson argues that slavery in effect imported African diseases into the Southeast and created a “modified West African disease environment.” James H. Cassedy points out that land-management policies determined by slavery—land clearing, soil exhaustion—also helped created a distinctive disease environment. Other contributors discuss southern public health problems, domestic medicine, slave folk beliefs, and the special medical needs of blacks. Science and Medicine in the Old South is a long-overdue examination of these segments of the southern cultural milieu. These essays will do much to clarify misconceptions about the time and the region; moreover, they suggest directions for future research.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion written by Peter Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Download or read book Protestants in an Age of Science written by Theodore Dwight Bozeman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and other enemies of Christian faith. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Norton s Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gentlemen Theologians written by E. Brooks Holifield and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Holifield locates the southern theologians in their broader American setting and in the context of European debates about reason, revelation, science, and moral philosophy. He thus explores a wide range of topics that clarify the history of southern--and American--religion: the presuppositions of liberalism and the logic of conservatism; the influence of Scottish Common-Sense Philosophers, British theologians, and German Biblical critics; the foundations and functions of southern social ethics; the didactic uses of ritual; and the continuing effort of nineteenth-century theologians to demonstrate the reasonableness of both the Christian religion and the whole natural order.
Download or read book American Christianities written by Catherine A. Brekus and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far beyond church pews into the wider culture. Yet, at the same time, Christians in the United States have di
Download or read book Southern Presbyterian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science written by John William Sir Dawson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this treatise, the author ponders the mysteries around where we came from, where/what we are, and what our purpose might be. Dawson (1820 - 1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. He was also a committed Christian, steadfast in his denial of Darwin's theory of evolution, and his belief that life had started exactly as the Bible states.
Download or read book An Index to English Periodical Literature on the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies written by William G. Hupper and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library has v. 1-4 only.
Download or read book The American Geologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Geologist written by Newton Horace Winchell and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Review of recent geological literature."
Download or read book Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science written by John Pye Smith and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto written by Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology and Religion written by Martina Kölbl-Ebert and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.
