Evolution and Christianity (Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion) - Softcover

Iverach, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108000681 ISBN 13: 9781108000680

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Faced with the theories of scientists and philosophers, perhaps most famously Charles Darwin's, late-Victorian theologians were preoccupied with the reconciliation of Christian teaching with their contemporaries' ideas. First published in 1894, this text forms part of a series introducing key areas of Christian theology for the modern audience. Dr James Iverach examines theories of the origins of both the universe and of life within it, finding in intelligence, morality, faith and ethics a unifying and clarifying force that he argues reveals the presence of God's creative process in the history of the universe. Nothing, he claims, occurs by chance, and natural selection simply expresses that the sum total of causes, both internal and external, results in the state in which only the forms of life now observable should exist. This text provides an insight into the late-Victorian philosophy of Christian Darwinism.

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Book Description

Part of a late-Victorian series of texts presenting central Christian ideas within the context of contemporary scientific developments, this volume examines, via Christian Darwinism, God's creative role in the process of evolution and of man's relationship with his world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108000681
• ISBN 13: 9781108000680
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248