When all the gods trembled

Darwinism, Scopes, and American intellectuals

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When all the gods trembled

Darwinism, Scopes, and American intellectuals

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Paul K. Conkin explores large, indeed cosmic issues in When All the Gods Trembled.

Conkin traces the origins of Western beliefs about the gods and about human origins, beliefs shared by the three great Semitic religions. He proceeds with a searching and original analysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, rejecting conventional understandings of Darwin in order to probe the logical credentials of his thesis and its implications for Christian theology.

From Darwin he moves to the deep rifts that developed between American orthodox, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians on the one hand and liberals and modernists on the other. These tensions created the enormous public interest in the Scopes trial of 1925, which provides the subject of a revealing chapter.

The final two chapters focus on the intellectual debates during and immediately after the famous trial. One involves a dialogue among the most representative and vocal Christian intellectuals in the 1920s - the orthodox E. Gresham Machen, the liberal Harry Emerson Fosdick, and the modernist Shailer Matthews.

The last chapter includes brief vignettes of a diverse group of intellectuals who rejected any version of theism, including John Dewey, George Santayana, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Crowe Ransom, Walter Lippmann, and Joseph Wood Krutch.

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When all the gods trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American intellectuals
2001, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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1998, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: 1998.

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Lanham, MD
Series
American intellectual culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
291.1/75
Library of Congress
BL245 C66 2001, BL245C66 2001

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Pagination
xi, 185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

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Open Library
OL3946259M
ISBN 10
0847690644
LCCN
2001031799
OCLC/WorldCat
46951592
Library Thing
1610998
Goodreads
935763

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