| After the Monkey Trial: Evangelical Scientists and a New Creationism Contributor(s): Rios, Christopher M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823256677 ISBN-13: 9780823256679 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Religion & Science - Religion | Christian Ministry - Evangelism - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: 231.765 |
| LCCN: 2014014673 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.5" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: In the well-known Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, famously portrayed in the film and play Inherit the Wind, William Jennings Bryan's fundamentalist fervor clashed with defense attorney Clarence Darrow's aggressive agnosticism, illustrating what current scholars call the conflict thesis. It appeared, regardless of the actual legal question of the trial, that Christianity and science were at war with each other. Decades later, a new generation of evangelical scientists struggled to restore peace. After the Monkey Trial is the compelling history of those evangelical scientists in Britain and America who, unlike their fundamentalist cousins, supported mainstream scientific conclusions of the world and resisted the anti-science impulses of the era. This book focuses on two organizations, the American Scientific Affiliation and the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship (today Christians in Science), who for more than six decades have worked to reshape the evangelical engagement with science and redefine what it means to be a creationist. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rios, Christopher M.: - Christopher M. Rios is Assistant Dean in the Baylor University Graduate School and a parttime lecturer in Baylor's Department of Religion. |