The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidence (1995 Young), book

Davis A. Young, The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidence (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Carlisle: Paternoster, 1996).

Abstract

"Using the biblical flood as an example, Young contends that the church has not always handled evidence well in grappling with scientific matters and issues a call to biblical scholars to interpret the Genesis text more rigorously in light of current scientific knowledge."--Publisher description.

Contents

The flood in early Jewish thought -- The flood in early Christian thought -- The flood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- The impact of the exploration of the new world -- Diluvial cosmogonies and the beginnings of geology -- The collapse of diluvial cosmogonies and the beginnings of modern geology -- Early nineteenth-century developments in geology -- Advance and regression in geological thought -- The popularizers of geology -- Theology in the mid-nineteenth century -- New discoveries and deluge theories of the late nineteenth century -- Biblical scholarship until the fundamentalist-modernist controversies -- Scientific advances of the early twentieth century -- Mesopotamian flood deposits -- Recent developments in science and biblical studies -- Twentieth-century flood geology -- Recent theories of the flood -- Recent commentary on the flood.

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