Green Eye Of The Storm

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Weight 0.40 kg
Dimensions 21.5 × 13.6 × 2.4 cm
ISBN 9780851517278
topic

Apologetics, Worldview

format

Book

Original Pub Date

1998

Banner Pub Date

Jun 1, 1998

Binding

Paperback

page-count

312

Book Description

The theory of evolution burst like a great storm cloud on the intellectual world of the mid-nineteenth century, and brought widespread public controversy and debate with it. Soon, however, the evolutionary way of viewing life became almost all-pervasive; scientists of all kinds, historians, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and many others would all adopt its tenets in order to interpret the world in general and the human race in particular.

Reactions in the Christian church varied from immediate acceptance to long-term hostility. Today the controversy continues unabated and is the subject of many debates, seminars and publications.

Green Eye of the Storm offers a unique and fascinating introduction to this debate, seeing it through the lives of four distinguished men who struggled with the evolutionary theory in very different contexts: Philip Henry Gosse, George John Romanes, Arthur Rendle Short and his son John Rendle-Short the author of this book. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the life, times and intellectual development of these men and will be of interest to all who have an interest in them or the religious and scientific movements with which their names are associated.

 

Table of Contents Expand ↓

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION ix
PROLOGUE xv
PART ONE PHILIP HENRY GOSSE
1 Philip and Emily 3
2 The Evolution of Evolution 10
3 The Storm Strikes 17
4 Omphalos 23
5 After the Storm 38
6 Postscript: Philip Gosse and Sir Edmund Gosse 45
PART TWO GEORGE JOHN ROMANES
7 Early Years 51
8 The Mature Scientist 57
9 ‘A Good Squib’ 64
10 Spiritual Warfare 71
11 Return to Faith 80
PART THREE ARTHUR RENDLE SHORT
12 The Brethren Connection 97
13 Poverty and Ambition 106
14 A Crisis of Faith 113
15 Can We Trust the Bible? 121
16 An Intellectual Impasse 128
17 The Fact of Christ 137
18 Surgeon and Teacher 145
19 Waiting for Light 154
20 Later Years 168
PART FOUR JOHN RENDLE-SHORT
21 Childhood 181
22 University 186
23 Training for Paediatrics 196
24 Queensland 203
25 Who Was Adam? 210
26 Toronto and Switzerland 215
27 Man’s Origin, Man’s Destiny and Other Books 228
28 Whatever Happened to the ‘Good’ Earth? 241
29 Bias, Faith, Evidence and Pre-evangelism 249
30 ‘Then You Weren’t a Christian!’ 260
31 Evolution: How Serious an Issue for Christians? 267
APPENDICES
1 Some Major Scientific and Historical Evidence for Special Creation 275
2 The Significance of a Global Flood 282
3 Why is the Book if Genesis so Important? 284
INDEX 287

 

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