Alone in the World?
Subtitle: Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780802832467
Subjects: Christian theology; Religion; Christianity; Religion - Socialissues; Theological anthropology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Religious aspects; Religion & Science; Christian Theology - Cosmology; Christianity - Theology - Cosmology; Christian Theology - Anthropology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Human Evolution
First sentence: On August 21, 1885, Lord Gifford signed into existence his last will and testament, creating the Gifford Lectures and along with that the now famous charge to all future lectures: "I having been for many years deeply and firmly convinced that the true knowledge of God, . . . and the true and felt knowledge . . . of the relations of man and of the universe to Him, and of the true foundations of all ethics and morals - being, I say, convinced that this knowledge, when really felt and acted on, is the means of man's highest well-being, and the security of his upward progress, I have resolved . . . to institute and found . . . lectureships or classes for the study and promotion of said subjects."