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Protestants in an Age of Science [electronic resource] : The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1977.Description: 1 online resource (413 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781469610061 (electronic bk.)
  • 146961006X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 261.5
LOC classification:
  • BL245 .B7 1977
Online resources: Summary: Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and other enemies of Christian faith. Originally published in 1977.
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Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian science, were afforded with additional means of elaborating a doxological version of natural science and of defending it against naturalism and other enemies of Christian faith. Originally published in 1977.

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