Darwinism and the divine : evolutionary thought and natural theology /
McGrath, Alister E.,1953-
Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface. -- Introduction. -- Part One: Conceptual Clarifications. -- On the meaning of terms. -- 1. Natural Theology: A Deeper Structure to the World. -- Natural theology in the classic tradition. -- The conceptual fluidity of natural theology. -- The eternal return of natural theology. -- 2. Darwinism: A Narrative of Evolution. -- Darwinism: A Defensible Term? -- Darwinism as an Ideology. -- The metaphysical inflation of evolutionary thought. -- Conclusion to Part One. -- Part Two: Historical Exposition. -- Darwin and the English natural theology tradition. -- 3. English Natural Theology of the Augustan Age, 1690-1745. -- The Emergence of English Natural Theology. -- Newtonian Physics and Natural Theology. -- The Protestant Assumptions of English Natural Theology. -- The "Disenchantment" of Nature. -- The Cessation of Miracles in Nature. -- The Providential Guidance of Nature. -- A Foundation for Consensus: The Doctrine of Creation. -- Physico-Theology: The Appeal to Contrivance. -- Natural Theology and the Beauty of Nature. -- The problem of development within nature. -- Assessing evidence: changing public perceptions. -- 4. A Popular Classic: William Paley's Natural Theology (1802). -- Introducing Paley's Natural Theology. -- Paley's Source: Bernard Nieuwentyt's Religious Philosopher (1718). -- The Watch Analogy: The Concept of Contrivance. -- Paley on Intermediary Causes within Nature. -- The Vulnerability of Paley's Approach. -- 5. Beyond Paley: English Natural Theology, 1802-52. -- The impact of geology upon Paley's natural theology. -- Henry Brougham: A Natural Theology of the Mind. -- Evidence, Testimony, and Proof: A Shifting Context. -- A New Approach: The Bridgewater Treatises. -- John Henry Newman: The theological deficiencies of Paley. -- Robert Browning's "Caliban Upon Setebos": A Literary Critique of Paley. -- English Natural Theology on the Eve of the Darwinian Revolution. -- 6. Charles Darwin, Natural Selection, and Natural Theology. -- The Development of Darwin's Views on Natural Selection. -- Problems, Prediction and Proof: The Challenge of Natural Selection. -- Natural Selection and Natural Theology: An Assessment of Darwin's impact. -- Darwin's relation to Paley. -- Darwin on Religion. -- Design and Purpose: The Question of Teleology. -- The Benevolence of God: Providence and Animal Pain. -- Conclusion to Part Two. -- Part Three: Contemporary Discussion. -- Darwinism and natural theology. -- 7. A Wider Teleology: Design, Evolution, and Natural Theology. -- Directionality within the natural world. -- Teleology: Introducing an Idea. -- Chance, contingency, and evolutionary goals. -- The "Wider Teleology" of Evolution. -- The Inference of Design and Natural Theology. -- Suffering, Evolution, and Natural Theology. -- 8. The concept of Creation: reflections and reconsiderations. -- The Seventeenth Century: The regnant theology of creation. -- Creation as Event and Process: Augustine of Hippo. -- Evolution and an Emergent Creation. -- God's action within the evolutionary process. -- 9. Universal Darwinism: Natural Theology as an Evolutionary Outcome? -- The Darwinian Paradigm and Cultural Development. -- The God-Meme: Natural Theology and Cultural Replicators. -- Religion: Evolutionary Adaptation or Spandrel? -- Natural Theology and Evolutionary Theories of the Origins of Religion. -- Conclusion to Part Three. -- Part Four. -- Conclusion. -- 10. The Prospects for Natural Theology. -- Natural theology and the human evolutionary past. -- Natural Theology, Observational Traction, and the Best Explanation. -- A community of discernment: The church and natural theology. -- In Quest of Meaning. -- Index.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Paley, William, 1743-1805.
Natural theology.
Faith and reason.
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology)