Bibliograph

Negotiating Darwin, the Vatican confronts evolution, 1877-1902, Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez

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Negotiating Darwin, the Vatican confronts evolution, 1877-1902, Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Negotiating Darwin

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez

Series statement

Medicine, science, and religion in historical context

Sub title

the Vatican confronts evolution, 1877-1902

Summary

This "well-researched and insightful study" reveals the secret deliberations that decided the Vatican's stance on evolution (Catholic Historical Review). Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics-five clerics and one layman-tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully. The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican, providing insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief

Target audience

adult

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