Negotiating Darwin

by Artigas, Mariano; Glick, Thomas F.; Martnez, Rafael A.

• ISBN13: 9780801883897
• ISBN10: 080188389X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-17
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998, Negotiating Darwin chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics -- five clerics and one layman -- tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species. As Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez reconstruct these cases, we see who acted and why, how the events unfolded, and how decisions were put into practice. With the long shadow of Galileo's condemnation hanging over the Church as the Scientific Revolution ushered in new paradigms, the Church found it prudent to avoid publicly and directly condemning Darwinism and thus treated these cases carefully. The authors reveal the ideological and operational stance of the Vatican and describe its secret deliberations. In the process, they provide insight into current debates on evolution and religious belief.

Author Biography

Mariano Artigas is a professor of philosophy at Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Thomas F. Glick is a professor of history at Boston University. Rafael A. Mart+¡nez is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(6)
1. The New Documents	7	(25)
2. An Ineffective Decree: Raffaello Caverni	32	(20)
3. Retraction in Paris: Dalmace Leroy	52	(72)
4. Americanism and Evolutionism: John A. Zahm	124	(79)
5. Condemned for Evolutionism?: Geremia Bonomelli	203	(17)
6. "The Erroneous Information of an Englishman": John C. Hedley	220	(16)
7. Happiness in Hell: St. George J. Mivart	236	(34)
8. The Church and Evolution: Was There a Policy?	270	(15)
Notes	285	(24)
Bibliography	309	(10)
Index	319