Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Medieval Church Encounters the Classical Tradition: Saint Augustine, Roger Bacon, and the Handmaiden Metaphor 7
7. 2. Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos 33
8. 3. Christianity and the Mechanistic Universe 61
9. 4. Matter, Force, and the Christian Worldview in the Enlightenment 85
10. 5. Noah’s Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History 111
11. 6. Genesis and Geology Revisited: The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain 139
12. 7. “Men before Adam!”: American Debates over the Unity and Antiquity of Humanity 161
13. 8. Re-placing Darwinism and Christianity 183
14. 9. Science, Miracles, and the Prayer-Gauge Debate 203
15. 10. Psychoanalysis and American Christianity, 1900-1945 225
16. 11. The Scopes Trial in History and Legend 245
17. 12. Science without God: Natural Laws and Christian Beliefs 265
18. Notes 287
19. A Guide to Further Reading 327
20. Contributors 339
21. Index 341