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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800-1860
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Pietro Corsi
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:360
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreReligion and beliefs
ISBN/Barcode 9780521101516
ClassificationsDewey:261.55
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 4 December 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Science and Religion assesses the impact of social, political and intellectual change upon Anglican circles, with reference to Oxford University in the decades that followed the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. More particularly, the career of Baden Powell, father of the more famous founder of the Boy Scout movement, offers material for an important case-study in intellectual and political reorientation: his early militancy in right-wing Anglican movements slowly turned to a more tolerant attitude towards radical theological, philosophical and scientific trends. During the 1840s and 1850s, Baden Powell became a fearless proponent of new dialogues in transcendentalism in theology, positivism in philosophy, and pre-Darwinian evolutionary theories in biology. He was for instance the first prominent Anglican to express full support for Darwin's Origin of Species. Analysis of his many publications, and of his interaction with such contemporaries as Richard Whately, John Henry and Francis Newman, Robert Chambers, William Benjamin Carpenter, George Henry Lewes and George Eliot, reveals hitherto unnoticed dimensions of mid-nineteenth-century British intellectual and social life.