Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

by Theodore Dwight Bozeman

Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807896268
• ISBN13: 9780807896266
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"