Christopher M. Rios
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823256679
- eISBN:
- 9780823261383
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823256679.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Over the past generation, considerable historical attention has been given to evangelical Christians who attacked modern evolutionary theories. This book, by contrast, sheds light on the ...
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Over the past generation, considerable historical attention has been given to evangelical Christians who attacked modern evolutionary theories. This book, by contrast, sheds light on the under-studied story of twentieth-century Christians who remained theologically conservative, but refused to take up arms against modern science—those who sought to show the compatibility of biblical Christianity and the conclusions of mainstream science, including evolution. It focuses on the middle decades of the twentieth century, the same period in which creationism became a movement within evangelicalism, and on two groups of evangelical scientists, the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) and the UK-based Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (RSCF, today Christians in Science). Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including conference papers, interviews, and private correspondence, this book shows how these organizations pursued a reconciliation of science and theology that contradicted the fundamentalist ethos of the period and denied the claims that creationism entailed antievolutionism.Less
Over the past generation, considerable historical attention has been given to evangelical Christians who attacked modern evolutionary theories. This book, by contrast, sheds light on the under-studied story of twentieth-century Christians who remained theologically conservative, but refused to take up arms against modern science—those who sought to show the compatibility of biblical Christianity and the conclusions of mainstream science, including evolution. It focuses on the middle decades of the twentieth century, the same period in which creationism became a movement within evangelicalism, and on two groups of evangelical scientists, the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) and the UK-based Research Scientists’ Christian Fellowship (RSCF, today Christians in Science). Drawing on published and unpublished sources, including conference papers, interviews, and private correspondence, this book shows how these organizations pursued a reconciliation of science and theology that contradicted the fundamentalist ethos of the period and denied the claims that creationism entailed antievolutionism.
Adam Laats
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190665623
- eISBN:
- 9780190665654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190665623.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Religious Studies
By the late 1970s, fundamentalist schools no longer pretended to stand aloof from electoral politics. But though pundits and scholars tended to think of this as something new, it actually represented ...
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By the late 1970s, fundamentalist schools no longer pretended to stand aloof from electoral politics. But though pundits and scholars tended to think of this as something new, it actually represented a continuation of a long tradition. Since the 1920s, evangelical and fundamentalist campuses had always been hotbeds of political thought and activism, usually along conservative lines. Similarly, by the 1970s a new debate split creationists, with fundamentalists often insisting on young-earth beliefs and evangelicals hoping for a more profound engagement with mainstream science. The angry split between young-earth creationist fundamentalists and progressive creationist evangelicals reinforced the long running feud at all conservative-evangelical institutions.Less
By the late 1970s, fundamentalist schools no longer pretended to stand aloof from electoral politics. But though pundits and scholars tended to think of this as something new, it actually represented a continuation of a long tradition. Since the 1920s, evangelical and fundamentalist campuses had always been hotbeds of political thought and activism, usually along conservative lines. Similarly, by the 1970s a new debate split creationists, with fundamentalists often insisting on young-earth beliefs and evangelicals hoping for a more profound engagement with mainstream science. The angry split between young-earth creationist fundamentalists and progressive creationist evangelicals reinforced the long running feud at all conservative-evangelical institutions.
