When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals

by Paul K. Conkin

Book Overview

With characteristic eloquence and insight, prominent historian Paul K. Conkin explores large, indeed cosmic issues in When All the Gods Trembled. Conkin focuses his analysis on the numerous challenges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to age-old beliefs in the existence of a god, in a world that exhibits some extrinsic or intrinsic purpose, in the divine origin and special destiny of humans, and in transcendent moral values. By the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847690644
• ISBN13: 9780847690640
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"