The purpose-driven Darwinist: Henry Ward Beecher and the theology of progress
Henry Ward Beecher's sermon series on evolution in the summer of 1885 reconciled Christianity to the new science in a way that asserted far more than the mere compatibility of natural selection and divine providence: The Brooklyn preacher appropriated Darwinism to support a uniquely bourgeois p...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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Political theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-72 |
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USA
/ Protestant Church
/ Darwinism
/ Progress
/ Political theology
/ History 1875-1900
B Beecher, Henry Ward 1813-1887 / Darwinism / Progress / Political theology |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church NCD Political ethics |
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