Overview

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has changed the landscape of religious thought in many ways. There is a widespread assumption that before Darwin, all Christians believed that the world was created some 6,000 years ago over a period of 6 days. After Darwin, the first chapters of Genesis were either rejected totally by skeptics or defended vehemently in scientific creationism. This book tells a very different story. Bringing together contributions from biblical scholars, historians and contemporary theologians, it is demonstrated that both Jewish and Christian scholars read Genesis in a non-literal way long before Darwin. Even during the nineteenth century, there was a wide range of responses from religious believers towards evolution, many of them very positive. Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson argue that being receptive to the continuing relevance of Genesis today regarding questions of gender, cosmology, and the environment is a lively option.

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Author:   Stephen C Barton (Reader, Reader, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University) ,  David Wilkinson (Principal, Principal, St. John's College, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780195383355

ISBN 10:   0195383354
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1: Engaging Again With The Scriptures 1: Walter Moberly: 'How Should One Read The Early 2: Francis Watson: Genesis Before Darwin: Why Scripture Needed Liberating From Science 3: Andrew Louth: The Six Days Of Creation According To The Greek Fathers 4: Richard S. Briggs: The Hermeneutics Of Reading Genesis After Darwin Part 2: Understanding The History 5: John Rogerson: What Difference Did Darwin Make? The Interpretation Of Genesis In The Nineteenth Century' 6.: John Hedley Brooke: Genesis And The Scientists: Dissonance Among The Harmonizers 7: David Brown: Science And Religion In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Landscape Art Part 3: Exploring The Contemporary Relevance 8: David Wilkinson: Reading Genesis 1-3 In The Light Of Modern Science 9: David Clough: All God's Creatures: Reading Genesis On Human And Non-Human Animals 10: Jeff Astley: Evolution And Evil: The Difference Darwin Makes In Theology And Spirituality 11: Stephen C. Barton: '""Male And Female He Created Them"" (Genesis 1:27): Interpreting Gender After Darwin 12: Ellen F. Davis: Propriety And Trespass: The Drama Of Eating 13: Mathew Guest: The Plausibility Of Creationism: A Sociological Comment Index of Modern Authors"

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It's a strange world when science can be used to dismiss the Bible, or when the Bible can be used to reject science - strange because God's people have long affirmed that the world and the Bible comprise God's Two Books. The challenge, then, is how to read the pages of both faithfully and to discern in their coordinated witness the character and aims of God. For its willingness to take up this challenge, and to do so accessibly and sensibly, Reading Genesis after Darwin is a genuinely important book. In their sketches of how Genesis was read before, during, and after the days of Darwin, these authors demonstrate how people might take the natural sciences seriously and continue to turn to Genesis 1-3 as sacred scripture. Joel B. Green, author of Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (2008).

It's a strange world when science can be used to dismiss the Bible, or when the Bible can be used to reject science - strange because God's people have long affirmed that the world and the Bible comprise God's Two Books. The challenge, then, is how to read the pages of both faithfully and to discern in their coordinated witness the character and aims of God. For its willingness to take up this challenge, and to do so accessibly and sensibly, Reading Genesis after Darwin is a genuinely important book. In their sketches of how Genesis was read before, during, and after the days of Darwin, these authors demonstrate how people might take the natural sciences seriously and continue to turn to Genesis 1-3 as sacred scripture. * Joel B. Green, author of Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (2008). *

It's a strange world when science can be used to dismiss the Bible, or when the Bible can be used to reject science -- strange because God's people have long affirmed that the world and the Bible comprise God's Two Books. The challenge, then, is how to read the pages of both faithfully and to discern in their coordinated witness the character and aims of God. For its willingness to take up this challenge, and to do so accessibly and sensibly, Reading Genesis after Darwin is a genuinely important book. In their sketches of how Genesis was read before, during, and after the days of Darwin, these authors demonstrate how people might take the natural sciences seriously and continue to turn to Genesis 1-3 as sacred scripture. --Joel B. Green, author of Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (2008).

Author Information

Stephen Barton is a Reader in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University; David Wilkinson is the Principal of St. John's College, Durham University

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