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History of Theology and Cosmology

Historical Christian studies of creation, earth history, cosmology, and the relation between scripture and natural philosophy.

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An Appeal to the People — Catharine E. BeecherCatharine E. Beecher defends lay biblical interpretation and a common-sense Protestant alternative to Augustinian original-sin theology.Biology versus Theology — JulianJulian's complete 1871 freethought critique of biblical cosmology, prehistory, numerical claims, historical statements, and internal contradictions.Common Sense Applied to Religion — Catharine E. BeecherCatharine E. Beecher joins mental philosophy, moral intuition, biblical interpretation, and women’s educational authority in a rational Protestant theology.God, Outlines of the New Theology — T. D. CurtisT. D. Curtis's complete 1889 theological poem in forty-eight numbered propositions on a gendered divine pair, evolution, cosmology, and eternal progression.Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion — Auguste SabatierAuguste Sabatier's complete three-book philosophy of religion on religious psychology, revelation, Christianity, dogma, and historical development.The Evolution of Theology — Thomas Henry HuxleyThomas Henry Huxley's complete anthropological essay on Israelite theology, spirits, sacrifice, monotheism, and the historical development of doctrine.The Origin and Development of Christian Dogma — Charles A. H. TuthillCharles A. H. Tuthill traces Christian dogma through monotheism, messianism, Jewish Christianity, pagan Christianity, Catholicism, and Protestantism.The Sacred Theory of the Earth — Thomas Burnet — Volumes I–IIThomas Burnet's complete joined 1726 English edition in two volumes on creation, the Flood, paradise, conflagration, the renewed earth, and theological cosmology.The Story of Creation as Told by Theology and by Science — T. S. AcklandT. S. Ackland's complete five-chapter historical attempt to reconcile Genesis with nineteenth-century geology, astronomy, physiology, and natural law.