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From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons
• Subtitle: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
• Author: Peter J. Bowler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780674032200
• ISBN: 0674032209
• ID: 04635244
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 282 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 133 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2009

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