A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: Volume 1, from Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

ISBN-13: 9781138518315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 516 str.

Andrew White

Opis

White began to assemble his magnum opus, a two volume work first published in 1896. In correspondence he wrote that he intended the work to stake out a position between such religious orthodoxy as John Henry Newman's on one side and such secular scoffing as Robert Ingersoll's on the other.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, CHAPTER I. FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION., CHAPTER II. GEOGRAPHY, CHAPTER Ill. ASTRONOMY, CHAPTER IV. FROM SIGNS AND WONDERS TO LAW IN THE HEAVENS., CHAPTER V. FROM GENESIS TO GEOLOGY, CHAPTER VI. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN, EGYPTOLOGY, AND ASSYRIOLOGY, CHAPTER VII. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN AND PREHISTORIC ARCHJEOLOGY, CHAPTER VIII. THE FALL OF MAN AND ANTHROPOLOGY, CHAPTER IX. THE FALL OF MAN AND ETHNOLOGY, CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF MAN AND HISTORY, CHAPTER XI. FROM THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR TO METEOROLOGY, CHAPTER XII. FROM MAGIC TO CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Index

O autorze

White, Andrew