Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science

PART I. Overview

1 The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions

John Hedley Brooke

PART II. Orientations

2 The Puritan Thesis Revisited

John Morgan

3 Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered

Edward B. Davis

PART III. Theological Engagements

4 Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan

Mark A. Noll

5 Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr

David W. Bebbington

6 Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence Controversy

Jonathan R. Topham

PART IV. Specific Encounters

7 Scriptural Geology in America

Rodney L. Stiling

8 Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution

David N. Livingstone

9 Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend

James Moore

10 Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz

Ronald L. Numbers

11 A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark

Larry Eskridge

PART V. Wider Domains

12 "The Science of Duty": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America

Allen C. Guelzo

13 Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930

Michael Gauvreau

Nancy Christie

14 Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American Academy

D. G. Hart

Afterword

15 The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on Olympus

George Marsden

Index