After the monkey trial : evangelical scientists and a new creationism / / Christopher M. Rios

• Autore: Rios Christopher M.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 231.7/652
• Soggetto topico: Bible and evolution; Creationism; Evolution (Biology) - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Soggetto non controllato: British Evangelicalism; Creationism; Evangelicalism; Evolution; Religion and Science-history; Science; religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ebb and Flow: Evangelicals and Evolution, 1860's to 1940's -- 2. A Society for the Correlation of Science and the Bible: The American Scientific Affiliation, 1940's to 1965 -- 3. Unexpected Resistance: The Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship, 1940's to 1965 -- 4. An Increasingly Powerful Movement: Modern Creationism to the 1980's -- 5. Against the Tide: The American Scientific Affiliation, 1965 to 1985 -- 6. A New Apologetic: The Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship, 1965 to 1985 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In the well-known Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, famously portrayed in the film and play Inherit the Wind, William Jennings Bryan’s fundamentalist fervor clashed with defense attorney Clarence Darrow’s aggressive agnosticism, illustrating what current scholars call the conflict thesis. It appeared, regardless of the actual legal question of the trial, that Christianity and science were at war with each other. Decades later, a new generation of evangelical scientists struggled to restore peace. After the Monkey Trial is the compelling history of those evangelical scientists in Britain and America who, unlike their fundamentalist cousins, supported mainstream scientific conclusions of the world and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. This book focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (today Christians in Science), who for more than six decades have worked to reshape the evangelical engagement with science and redefine what it means to be a creationist.
• Titolo autorizzato: After the monkey trial
• ISBN: 0-8232-5669-3; 0-8232-5668-5; 0-8232-5670-7; 0-8232-6138-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826911003321
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