Young, Davis A.

The biblical Flood : a case study of the Church's response to extrabiblical evidence / Davis A. Young. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Carlisle : Eerdmans ; Paternoster Press, 1995. - xiii, 327 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Flood in Early Jewish Thought -- 2. The Flood in Early Christian Thought -- 3. The Flood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- 4. The Impact of the Exploration of The New World -- 5. Diluvial Cosmogonies and the Beginnings of Geology -- 6. The Collapse of Diluvial Cosmogonies and the Beginnings of Modern Geology -- 7. Early Nineteenth-Century Developments in Geology -- 8. Advance and Regression in Geological Thought -- 9. The Popularizers of Geology -- 10. Theology in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 11. New Discoveries and Deluge Theories of the Late Nineteenth Century -- 12. Biblical Scholarship until the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversies -- 13. Scientific Advances of the Early Twentieth Century -- 14. Mesopotamian Flood Deposits -- 15. Recent Developments in Science and Biblical Studies -- 16. Twentieth-Century Flood Geology -- 17. Recent Theories of the Flood -- 18. Recent Commentary on the Flood -- Appendix: Arkeology.

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Bible.--Genesis VI, 9-IX, 17--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.


Deluge.
Bible and geology--History of doctrines.

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