History of Theology and Cosmology

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• An Appeal to the People — Catharine E. Beecher — Catharine E. Beecher defends lay biblical interpretation and a common-sense Protestant alternative to Augustinian original-sin theology.
• Biology versus Theology — Julian — Julian's complete 1871 freethought critique of biblical cosmology, prehistory, numerical claims, historical statements, and internal contradictions.
• Common Sense Applied to Religion — Catharine E. Beecher — Catharine 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. Curtis — T. 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 Sabatier — Auguste Sabatier's complete three-book philosophy of religion on religious psychology, revelation, Christianity, dogma, and historical development.
• The Evolution of Theology — Thomas Henry Huxley — Thomas Henry Huxley's complete anthropological essay on Israelite theology, spirits, sacrifice, monotheism, and the historical development of doctrine.
• The Legends of Genesis — Hermann Gunkel — Hermann Gunkel's 1901 form-critical study of Genesis as a collection of orally transmitted legends, examining their literary character, transmission, and combination into the biblical text.
• The Origin and Development of Christian Dogma — Charles A. H. Tuthill — Charles 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–II — Thomas 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. Ackland — T. S. Ackland's complete five-chapter historical attempt to reconcile Genesis with nineteenth-century geology, astronomy, physiology, and natural law.