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Book SynopsisIn the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.
Trade ReviewA well-documented scholarly work. Choice 2007 This is a fine study of the Church's response to Darwin and evolutionism in the late-nineteenth century... The work will appeal to a wide readership. -- John F. Pollard and Peter James Reviews in History 2007 This book is both a cautionary tale and a welcome piece of historical research. Commonweal 2007 Negotiating Darwin is a very important book. -- Michael Ruse Church History 2007 Those interested in the history of science and religion and Catholic scholars will find this book useful. -- S. O'M. Southeastern Naturalist 2008 A well-researched and insightful study. -- Don O'Leary Catholic Historical Review 2008 Negotiating Darwin currently offers the only detailed picture based on the Vatican archive of the actions of the Catholic Church towards authors of evolutionary tracts... should be read by anyone interested in the reception of Darwinism or the relationship between science and religion. -- Juliana Adelman British Journal for the History of Science 2008 Historians will enjoy its meticulous scholarship, and even non-historians will find this a useful book. -- Peter MJ Hess Reports of the National Center for Science Education 2009 A painstaking study of the archival material that will stand as a basic reference for the history of the Catholic Church's official response to attempts to reconcile Catholicism and evolutionism in the late nineteenth century. -- Barry Brundell Isis 2008
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
