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2) Darwin's forgotten defenders: the encounter between evangelical theology and evolutionary thought
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This book is the first systematic investigation of the response of evangelical intellectuals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Darwin's evolutionary theories. Despite evidence to the contrary, many people continue to believe that warfare between science and religion over the issue of evolution broke out as soon as Darwin published The Origin of the Species in 1859. In fact, as David Livingstone points out, a substantial number of...
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In the first comprehensive treatment of the role of churches in the processes that led to the American Civil War, C.C. Goen suggests that when Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches divided along lines of North and South in the antebellum controversy over slavery, they severed an important bond of national union. The forebodings of church leaders and other contemporary observers about the probability of disastrous political consequences were...
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"The New Deal is often said to represent a sea change in American constitutional history, overturning a century of precedent to permit an expanded federal government, increased regulation of the economy, and eroded property protections. John Compton offers a surprising revision of this familiar narrative, showing that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestants, not New Deal reformers, paved the way for the most important constitutional developments...
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"In When Slavery Was Called Freedom, author John Patrick Daly astutely dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at the heart of the nineteenth century's sectional crisis. He brings a new understanding to the role of religion in the Old South and the ways in which religion was put to use in the Confederacy. Southern evangelicals argued that their unique region was destined for greatness, and their rhetoric gave expression and a degree of coherence...
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"A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"--
Martha Parker was a gifted young New England woman, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary. Late in 1825 she accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor: Elnathan Gridley, a clergyman headed for the mission field. Tenney's male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence...
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