Evolution and Religion
Evolution and Religion
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USDHenry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist minister, social reformer, journal editor and orator. People flocked to hear his lecture tours and preaching, in which - in addition to campaigning against slavery and promoting women's suffrage - he embraced the theory of evolution at a time when many pastors were violently opposed to it. Volume II of Evolution and Religion, published in 1885, two years before Beecher's death, is a collection of lectures in which he uses the insights of evolutionism to probe various facets of Christian life and doctrine, including love of God and neighbour. Beecher's powerful writing reveals the charisma and enthusiasm which made him such a popular speaker in his day and makes this book particularly rewarding reading for historians of nineteenth-century science, religion and society.
Product details
July 2009Paperback
9781108000468
300 pages
216 × 17 × 140 mm
0.38kg
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Table of Contents
- Introductory
- 1. The manifold Christ
- 2. The conversion of force
- 3. The drift of the ages
- 4. The hidden man
- 5. The rest of God
- 6. God's loving providence
- 7. The New Testament theory of evolution
- 8. God's goodness man's salvation
- 9. Poverty and the gospel
- 10. God in the world
- 11. Jesus the true ideal
- 12. The growth of creation
- 13. The battle of life
- 14. The liberty of Christ
- 15. Concord, not unison
- 16. Liberty and the duty of the pulpit
- 17. The vitality of God's truth.
