Reading the Book of Nature
How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Introduction : Reading the book of nature -- Prelude : trouble over Bridgewater -- Part I: Writing. Becoming a Bridgewater author; Writing God into nature --Part II: Publishing. Distributing design; Science serialized -- Part III: Reading. Science and the practice of religion; Preachers and protagonists; Being a Christian "man of science"; Religion and the practice of science -- Conclusion : "the fashionable reign of the Bridgewater Treatises".