1st Edition
Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science The Victoria Institute, 1865-1939
By Stuart Mathieson
Copyright 2021
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of ‘the great truths revealed in Holy Scripture’ from ‘the opposition of science, falsely so called’. The conflict for them was not between science and... Read more
Introduction
1 A safe haven for true science
2 Reading God’s two books: conflict, harmony, and natural theology
3 Darwin, Darwinism, and the Darwinists
4 Rock of ages: Genesis, geology, and human antiquity
5 Confronting the higher critics: scriptural geography and biblical archaeology
6 Between the wars: fundamentalism and decline
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Stuart Mathieson is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland, where he is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project on historic fundamentalism.
