Negotiating Darwin

The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8389-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context

Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics—five clerics and one layman—tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.

As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully.

The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican and describe its secret deliberations. In the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Artigas, Mariano

Glick, Thomas F

Martínez, Rafael A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The New Documents
Chapter 2. An Ineffective Decree
Chapter 3. Retraction in Paris
Chapter 4. Americanism and Evolutionism
Chapter 5. Condemned for Evolutionism?
Chapter 6. "The Erroneous Information of an Englishman"
Chapter 7. Happiness in Hell
Chapter 8. The Church and Evolution: Was There a Policy?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Artigas, Mariano
Mariano Artigas is a professor of philosophy at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Glick, Thomas F
Thomas F. Glick is a professor of history at Boston University and has written widely on Darwin. Among his many books are Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877–1902, also published by Johns Hopkins; The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World; and The Comparative Reception of Darwinism.

Martínez, Rafael A
Rafael A. Martínez is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

Mariano Artigas is a professor of philosophy at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Thomas F. Glick is a professor of history at Boston University. Rafael A. Martínez is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.