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b. Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the Controversy

  • Artigas, Mariano, Thomas F. Glick & Rafael A. Martinez. Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877 - 1902. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
  • Bowler, Peter J. Evolution: The History of An Idea. Revised Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
  • Brown, Frank Burch. The Evolution of Darwin’s Religious Views. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986.
  • Caruana, Louis. Darwin and Catholicism: the Past and Present Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter. New York: T & T Clark, 2009.
  • Coleman, Simon & Leslie Carlin. The Cultures of Creationism: Antievolution in English-Speaking Countries. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
  • Comfort, Nathaniel, ed. The Panda’s Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  • Fowler, Thomas B. & Daniel Kuebler. The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
  • Giberson, Karl & Donald Yerxa. Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story. Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2002.
  • Keynes, Randal. Darwin, His Daughter, and Evolution. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002.
  • Larson, Edward J. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
  • Larson, Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
  • Larson, Edward J. Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution. 3rd edition. NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Lessl, Thomas M. Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.
  • Livingstone, David N. Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987.
  • Livingstone, David N. Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Marsden, George. “Why Creation Science?” In Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, pp. 153 - 81. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991.
  • McCalla, Arthur. The Creationist Debate: The Encounter Between the Bible and the Historical Mind. New York: Continuum, 2006.
  • Midgley, Mary. Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears. New York: Methuen, 1985.
  • Moore, James R. The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870 - 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  • Moran, Jeffrey P. American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Numbers, Ronald L. “The Dilemma of Evangelical Scientists.” In Evangelicalism in Modern America, pp. 150 - 60. Edited by George Marsden. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984.
  • Numbers, Ronald L. Darwinism Comes to America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • Numbers, Ronald L. Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Enlarged edition. Cambrige, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • Phipps, William E. Darwin’s Religious Odyssey. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002.
  • Robbins, Richard H. & Mark Nathan Cohen, eds. Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation. Boston: Pearson Education, 2009.
  • Roberts, Jon H. Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859 - 1900. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
  • Rose, Michael. Darwin’s Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Ruse, Michael. The Evolution Wars. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
  • Ruse, Michael. The Evolution - Creation Struggle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Sapp, Jan. Genesis: The Evolution of Biology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Shapiro, Adam R. Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • Thomson, Keith Stewart. Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • Toumey, Christopher. God’s Own Scientists. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
  • Witham, Larry A. Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contributed by: Dr. Randy Maddox

The Natural Sciences and Christian Theology - A Select Bibliography

  I. Historical and Social Background of Contemporary Western Science
  II. Reflections on the Nature of Modern Science
     A. Expositions of Modern Scientific Method
     B. Introductions to the Philosophy of Science
     C. Debates over the Social Dimensions of Modern Science
  III. Popular Expositions of Contemporary Natural Science
     A. General and Survey Treatments
     B. Mathematics
     C. Particle Physics
     D. Chemistry
     E. Chaos & Complexity Theory
     F. Cosmology and Astrophysics
     G. Geology and Natural History
     H. Evolutionary Molecular Biology
     I. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology
     J. Neuroscience
     K. Environmental Science/Ecology
  IV. Historical Treatments of Interaction between Natural Science and Christianity in the West
  V. Contemporary Engagement of the Natural Sciences and Christian Theology
     A. Typological Surveys of Current Science/Theology Engagement
     B. Introductions to Current Science/Theology Engagement
     C. Survey Essay Collections of Current Science/Theology Engagement
     D. Important Journals for the Current Science/Theology Engagement
     E. Representative Recent Engagements of Theology by Natural Scientists
     F. Representative Recent Engagements of Natural Science by Christian Theologians
        1. Broad Western Christian Engagements
        2. “Evangelical” Western Christian Engagements
        3. Eastern Orthodox  Engagements
        4. Consciously Revisionist Christian Engagements
           a. Moving toward a fully “Naturalist” Theology
           b. Moving toward a Universal “Mystical” Theology
     G. Select Topics in Current Natural Science / Christian Theology Dialogue
        1. The Status of Theology as a “Science”
        2. Mathematical Order of the Universe and the Divine
        3. Contemporary Physics and Divine Action / Providence
        4. Contemporary Evolutionary Biology and Divine Action / Providence
        5. Contemporary Cosmology and Creatio ex Nihilo
        6. The Creation/Evolution Controversy
           a. Detailed Bibliographies of the Controversy
           b. Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the Controversy
           c. Contemporary Anti-supernaturalist Darwinists
           d. Recent Critiques of Naturalistic Darwinism (esp. “Intelligent Design”)
           e. Scientific Counter-Critiques of Creationism
           f. Surveys of the Diversity in “Creationist” Views
           g. Representative Young-Earth Creationist Advocates
           h. Representative Progressive Creationists
           i. Representative Fully Gifted Creationists (or Theistic Evolutionists)
           j. Additional Exegetical and Theological Perspectives
        7. Cosmology and Eschatology
        8. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature
        9. Genetic Impact on Behavior and Human Responsibility
        10. Neuroscience and the Human Soul / Human Responsibility
     H. Engagement of Ethical Dimensions of Modern Science/Technology
       1. Survey Treatments
       2. Nuclear Energy and Weapons
       3. Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering
       4. Ecological Crisis, Environmentalism, and Christian Worldview

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Dr. Randy Maddox

Prepared with support of the John Templeton Oxford Seminar on Science and Christianity (1999-2002)