Darwinism Divine in America: Protestant Intellectual & Organic Evolut

by Jon H. Roberts

Book Overview

Originally published in 1988, Jon Roberts's book provided the first comprehensive analytical overview of public dialogue among nineteenth-century American Protestant intellectuals who struggled with the theory of organic evolution. Before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, most American Protestant intellectuals valued science, especially natural history, for supplying data that appeared to be invaluable for defending...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268025525
• ISBN13: 9780268025526
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"