Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada.

Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science Part I. Overview 1: John Hedley Brooke: The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions Part II. Orientations 2: John Morgan: The Puritan Thesis Revisited 3: Edward B. Davis: Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered Part III. Theological Engagements 4: Mark A. Noll: Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan 5: David W. Bebbington: Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr 6: Jonathan R. Topham: Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence Controversy Part IV. Specific Encounters 7: Rodney L. Stiling: Scriptural Geology in America 8: David N. Livingstone: Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution 9: James Moore: Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend 10: Ronald L. Numbers: Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses since the Age of Agassiz 11: Larry Eskridge: A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark Part V. Wider Domains 12: Allen C. Guelzo: "The Science of Duty": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America 13: Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie: Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930 14: D. G. Hart: Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American Academy Afterword 15: George Marsden: The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on Olympus Index

"(The essays in this book) succeed brilliantly in their essential purpose of demonstrating that the many encounters between Evangelicals and science, far from being a mere ideological Punch and Judy show, are deserving of the most careful investigation from historians and theologians alike."--Theology