The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. The middle section of the book distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological lineage of their views. The paradox that emerges - that Darwin's theory was accepted in substance only by those whose theology was distinctly orthodox theology and of other evolutionary theories with liberal and romantic theological speculation. |
Contents
Draper White and the military metaphor | 19 |
Politics polemics and the military milieu | 50 |
Warfares toll in historical interpretation | 77 |
Towards a nonviolent history ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Darwinism in transition | 125 |
The challenge of Lamarckian evolution | 140 |
The vogue of Herbert Spencer | 153 |
Darwinism and NeoDarwinism | 174 |
Darwinism and Darwinisticism in theology | 299 |
Other editions - View all
The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come ... James R. Moore No preview available - 1979 |
Common terms and phrases
Agassiz American Andrew Dickson White animals anti-Darwinian argument Asa Gray believed biological Calvinist chap characters Charles Darwin Christian Darwinists Church conflict creation Creator critics Darwin and Seward Darwinian dissonance divine doctrine Draper Ellegård essay evidence evolutionary thought evolutionists explain fact faith final cause forms G. F. Wright G. J. Romanes geology George God's Henslow Herbert Spencer historians Hodge human hypothesis Ibid idea immanence induction inheritance intellectual interpretation Iverach John Kingsley Lamarckian Lamarckian evolution later liberal London Louis Agassiz Lyell Malthus mankind McCosh metaphysical military metaphor mind Mivart moral natural selection natural theology naturalists nineteenth century organic Origin of Species orthodox Paley phenomena philosophy post-Darwinian controversies principle progress published reason religious science and religion scientific scientists Spencer spiritual St George Mivart struggle T. H. Huxley teleology Theism theologians tion truth University Press variations Victorian Wallace warfare William wrote