The Creationist Debate
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The Creationist Debate

The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Creationist Debate

The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind

About this book

This book places the present Creationist opposition to the theory of evolution in historical context by setting out the ways in which, from the seventeenth century onwards, investigations of the history of the earth and of humanity have challenged the biblical views of chronology and human destiny, and the Christian responses to these challenges. The author's interest is not primarily directed to questions such as the epistemological status of scientific versus religious knowledge or the possibility of a Darwinian ethics, but rather to the problems, and various responses to the problems, raised in a particular historical period in the West for the Bible by the massive extension of the duration of geological time and human history.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780826480026
eBook ISBN
9781441190383

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Prologue
  4. Chapter 1 THE TWO BOOKS
  5. Chapter 2 MACHINE OR RUIN?
  6. Chapter 3 BIBLICAL EXCEPTIONALISM
  7. Chapter 4 HISTORIES OF THE GENTILES
  8. Chapter 5 THE BIRTH OF DEEP TIME
  9. Chapter 6 'CREATION'S FINAL LAW'
  10. Chapter 7 THE HIGHER CRITICISM OF THE BIBLE
  11. Chapter 8 EVOLUTION AND DESIGN
  12. Chapter 9 PREHISTORIC HUMANS
  13. Chapter 10 THE BIBLE IN AMERICA
  14. Chapter 11 FUNDAMENTALISM
  15. Chapter 12 YOUNG-EARTH CREATIONISM
  16. Chapter 13 CREATION SCIENCE
  17. Epilogue
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index