Science and Religion : Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800-1860 (Paperback)

Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Biographical Introduction; 1. The Hackney Phalanx: a family network; 2. Baden Powell's early theological papers; 3. Baden Powell's reflections on science in the early 1820s; 4. Science and religion in the 1820s; 5. Rational Religion Examined; 6. Baden Powell between Oriel and Hackney; Part II. Baden Powell and the Noetic School; 7. The teaching of Richard Whately; 8. The collision; 9. Science and academic politics at Oxford: 1825?1835; 10. Science and revelation: 1826?1836; Part III. The New Synthesis and its Developments; 11. The methodology of science; 12. The Christian apologetic and the fallacies of natural theology; 13. Christian tolerance; 14. The parting of the ways: Baden Powell versus Richard Whately; Part IV. The Question of Species; 15. The French threat; 16. Species without Darwin; 17. Towards the Origin; 18. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.