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Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700–Present Volume 1 Brill’s Series in Church History Edited by Wim Janse, Amsterdam In cooperation with Theo Clemens, Utrecht/Antwerpen Olivier Fatio, Genève Alastair Hamilton, London Scott Mandelbrote, Cambridge Andrew Pettegree, St. Andrews VOLUME 37 Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700–Present Volume 1 Edited by Jitse M. van der Meer Scott Mandelbrote LEIDEN • BOSTON 2008 On the cover: Painting from the Ultimate Realities collection by Wilhelmina Kennedy. Photo by Edwin Amsden. Used by kind permission. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic religions : 1700-present / edited by Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote. p. cm. — (Brill’s series in church history ; v. 37) Publication is in part the result of a conference with the title Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue and held at Redeemer University College in 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-17192-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Bible and science—History—Congresses. 2. Religion and science—History— Congresses. 3. Nature—Religious aspects—Congresses. 4. Bible and evolution— History—Congresses. 5. Bible—Hermeneutics—History—Congresses. 6. Nature in the Bible—Congresses. I. Meer, Jitse M. van der. II. Mandelbrote, Scott. III. Title. IV. Series. BS650.N38 2008 220.8’5—dc22 2008045757 ISSN 1572-4107 ISBN 978 90 04 17188 6 (volume 1) ISBN 978 90 04 17190 9 (volume 2) ISBN 978 90 04 17192 3 (set) Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. Brill has made all reasonable efforts to trace all right holders to any copyrighted material used in this work. In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands Dedicated to the memory of Mariano Artigas who now needs neither the Book of Nature nor the Book of Scripture CONTENTS VOLUME 1 Acknowledgements ..................................................................... xi Notes on Contributors ................................................................ xiii List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xvii INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Chapter One Biblical Hermeneutics and the Sciences, 1700–1900: An Overview ....................................................... 3 Scott Mandelbrote PART I 1700–1900 Chapter Two Biblical Interpretation in the Light of the Interpretation of Nature, 1650–1900 .................................... 41 William Yarchin Chapter Three Jonathan Edwards and the Discourses of Nature ..................................................................................... 83 Robert E. Brown Chapter Four Georges Cuvier and the Use of Scripture in Geology ............................................................................... 115 Jitse M. van der Meer Chapter Five Ethnology and the “Two Books”: Some Nineteenth-Century Americans on Preadamist Polygenism .............................................................................. 145 G. Blair Nelson viii contents PART II 1860–1900: SCRIPTURE AND BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Chapter Six Interpreting Scripture, Assimilating Science: Four British and American Christian Evolutionists on the Relationship between Science, the Bible, and Doctrine ........ 183 Richard England Chapter Seven Scriptural Facts and Scientifi c Theories: Epistemological Concerns of Three Leading English- Speaking Anti-Darwinians (Pusey, Hodge, and Dawson) ...... 225 Richard England Chapter Eight The Will to Meaning: Protestant Reactions to Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Germany ................... 257 Bernhard Kleeberg VOLUME 2 Chapter Nine Dutch Calvinists and Darwinism, 1900–1960 ............................................................................... 293 Rob P.W. Visser Chapter Ten Twin Sisters with a Changing Character: How Neo-Calvinists Dealt with the Modern Discrepancy between Bible and Natural Sciences ...................................... 317 George Harinck Chapter Eleven The Problem of Faith and Scientifi c Knowledge in Russian Religious Thought of the Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries ............................................ 371 Alexei V. Nesteruk PART III 1900–PRESENT Chapter Twelve Original Sin, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Science of Evolution ................................................. 407 J. Matthew Ashley contents ix Chapter Thirteen Galileo and the Garden of Eden: Historical Refl ections on Creationist Hermeneutics .............. 437 Edward B. Davis and Elizabeth Chmielewski Chapter Fourteen A Post-World War II Response to Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann: Biblical Hermeneutics and Modern Science in the ‘Dutch Reformed Church’ in the Twentieth Century .................................................................. 465 Henri Wijnandus de Knijff Chapter Fifteen The Exegesis of Science in Twentieth- Century Arabic Interpretations of the Qur(cid:120)ān ...................... 491 Marwa Elshakry Chapter Sixteen Judaism and the Religious Crisis of Modern Science ...................................................................... 525 Menachem Fisch Index ........................................................................................... 569
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