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Negotiating Darwin
Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martinez, Rafael A.
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Description for Negotiating Darwin
In the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief. Series: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRCC7; HRCX6; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new ... Read more
Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801883897
SKU
V9780801883897
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About Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martinez, Rafael A.
Mariano Artigas is a professor of philosophy at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Thomas F. Glick is a professor of history at Boston University. Rafael A. Martinez is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.
Reviews for Negotiating Darwin
A well-documented scholarly work. Choice 2007 This is a fine study of the Church's response to Darwin and evolutionism in the late-nineteenth century... The work will appeal to a wide readership.
John F. Pollard and Peter James Reviews in History 2007 This book is both a cautionary tale and a welcome piece of historical research. Commonweal 2007 Negotiating Darwin ... Read more
John F. Pollard and Peter James Reviews in History 2007 This book is both a cautionary tale and a welcome piece of historical research. Commonweal 2007 Negotiating Darwin ... Read more