Earlier today, I told someone I was taking a break from the site. Now, I'm feeling kind of brain dead and old habits die hard.
For a while now, because I got tired of bumping into the unreflective assumption that religious people by default freak the fuck out over evolution, I've been collecting theological affirmations of evolution from since before Darwin. It's been interesting to get my brain back into science, which I loved in junior high, lost interest in in high school, and pretty much abandoned completely in college. So, I've learned some things about evolution along the way. I'm working on getting some annotations and money quotes on all of samples. In the meantime, I thought I'd offer a preview, because I'm brain dead, tired, sad, and bored.
Relevant Secondary Literature
* Peter Bowler, Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
* Jon H. Roberts, "Religious Reactions to Darwin" and Ronald Numbers, "Scientific Creationism and Intelligent Design" in The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
* Jon H. Roberts, "Myth 18: That Darwin Destroyed Natural Theology" and some other chapters in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
* Jon H. Roberts, Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900
* James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900
* David Livingstone, Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought
* Mariano Artigas, Thomas Glick, and Rafael Martinez, Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution, 1877-1902
1799, Friedrich Schleiermacher, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers
1844, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
1860, Baden Powell, "On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity" in Essays and Reviews
1860, Asa Gray, "Natural Selection not Inconsistent with Natural Theology" - Atlantic Monthly article reprinted in Darwiniana
1862, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
1871, St. George Jackson Mivert, On the Genesis of Species
1871, James McCosh, Christianity and Positivism
1874, Alexander Winchell, The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Speculations, and Its Theistic Bearing
1882, George Frederick Wright, Studies in Science and Religion.
1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World
1884, Frederick Temple, The Relations between Religion and Science: Eight Lectures Preached before Oxford
1885, Henry Ward Beecher, Evolution and Religion
1891, Joseph LeConte, Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought
1892, Lyman Abbott, The Evolution of Christianity
1896, John Zahm, Evolution and Dogma
1900, Georg Wobbermin, Christian Belief in God: A German Criticism of German Materialistic Philosophy
(The living expert on Wobbermin is Kossack Mahanoy, author of Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin.)
1921, Henri de Dordolot, Darwinism and Catholic Thought
1924, Shailer Mathews, The Faith of Modernism
1931, Ernest Messenger, Evolution and Theology: The Problem of Man's Origin
1932, John Anthony O'Brien, Evolution and Religion: A Study of the Bearing of Evolution upon the Philosophy of Religion
1932, Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
1933, Ernest Barnes, Scientific Theory and Religion: The World Described by Science and its Spiritual Interpretation
1939, William Greenwood, Biology and Christian Belief
1954, Bernard Ramm, The Christian View of Science and Scripture
1957, David Lack, Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief: The Unresolved Conflict
1965, John Cobb, A Christian Natural Theology Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead
1967, Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Biology of Ultimate Concern
1981, Langdon Gilkey, Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock
1983, Roland Frye (ed.), Is God a Creationist? The Religious Case against Creation Science
1984, Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
1984, Conrad Hyers, The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science
1985, Jurgen Moltmann, God in Creation
1986, Arthur Peacocke, God and the New Biology
1986, Howard van Til, The Fourth Day: What the Bible and the Heavens are Telling Us About the Creation
1992, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
1993, Sallie McFague, The Body of God
2000, Anne Primavesi, Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth Systems Science
2003, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Adam, Eve, and the Genome
2004, Darrell Falk, Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology
2007, John Haught, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution
2007, Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
2008, Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
2008, Christopher Southgate, The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil
2008, Karl Giberson, Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution