04099nam 2200577 a 450 991078617710332120230320213934.0979-88-908756-9-31-4696-1006-X(CKB)2670000000324911(EBL)1109672(OCoLC)826853937(SSID)ssj0001101374(PQKBManifestationID)11609215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101374(PQKBWorkID)11067455(PQKB)11631949(Au-PeEL)EBL1109672(CaPaEBR)ebr10676066(CaONFJC)MIL930842(MiAaPQ)EBC1109672(EXLCZ)99267000000032491120760716d1977 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProtestants in an age of science the Baconian ideal and antebellum American religious thought /Theodore Dwight BozemanChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,1977.1 online resource (260 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-9626-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-239) and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Source and Rise of Baconianism in America; Realism and Natural Science; Ideas, Objects, and Intuition; Hume and the Limits of Knowledge; Summary of the Scottish Pattern; Transition to America: The Rise of Realism; Locke, ""Lord Bacon,"" and Inductive Science; Conclusion; 2. The Presbyterian Old School: A Case-Study Profile; A Concise Profile of the Old School; Presbyterians and Science: Personal Involvements; 3. Christian Inquiry and Inductive Restraint; The Enlightenment Challenge: Inquiry versus ReligionSamuel Miller's Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: A Summary of the Past and a Map of the Future The March of Mind; Mind and Matter; Truth: Objective and Subjective; Induction and the Art of Generalization; Induction and Deduction in Baconian Perspective; 4. Doxological Science and Its Enemies; The Beatification of Bacon; Doxological Science in Evangelical America; The Presbyterian View: Design, Care, and Order; Secularism, Materialism, and Heresy: The Other Face of Science; Going on the Defensive: The Right of Review; 5. Saving Doxological Science: Baconian Strategies for the DefenseNatural ""Fact"" versus ""Reasoning"" in Science Induction and the ""Data"" of Scripture; Induction and the Psychology of Humility; Induction and the Incompleteness of Science; 6. Positive Strategies in Doxological Science; The Concord of Truth; Catastrophism and the Millennium; Bacon and the Reformation; 7. Baconianism and the Bible: Hermeneutics for an Age of Science; Christian Theology and the Critique of Pure Reason; Biblical ""Fact"" versus ""Reasoning"" in Theology; Baconianism and the Bible: The New Organum of Christian Theology; 8. Summary and Concluding Reflections; Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography; Notes; Bibliography; IndexSince 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.Religion and scienceUnited StatesHistoryProtestantismReligion and scienceHistory.Protestantism.261.5Bozeman Theodore Dwight1942-1481095MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786177103321Protestants in an age of science3697914UNINA