Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity

by Thomas M. Lessl

Book Overview

Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation--a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence--Thomas Lessl traces the evolving role and public identity of science in the West.

As the Reformation gave way to the Enlightenment, notions of Providence evolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602584036
• ISBN13: 9781602584037
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"