Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
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应对达尔文：宗教与进化论中的地方、政治和修辞
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2014
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Kent Gerber
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利文斯通在贝尔法斯特的女王大学担任地理学和思想史教授。这个书名对于一本书的作者来说当然是合适的，这本书声称对达尔文1859年著名的出版物所引发的思想冲突提供了“地理视角”。利文斯顿认为，围绕达尔文主义的争论总是反映了它们发生的地方的特殊情况。因此，他的“阅读地理”将我们带到不列颠群岛和北美的五个地点，他的叙述包括对“修辞空间”和“认知区”的引用，他用这些术语来解释达尔文主义的不同接受方式。利文斯通很重视这一点，但他确实注意避免了决定论;思想史不仅仅是“文化政治的附带现象”。尽管有当地的具体情况，但这项研究普遍存在共性。利文斯通将他对达尔文主义的接受限制在五个长老会社区--爱丁堡、贝尔法斯特、多伦多、南卡罗来纳州的哥伦比亚和新泽西州的普林斯顿--在那里，那些讨论达尔文主义的人接受了加尔文主义神学和苏格兰常识哲学的教育。在这项研究中，那些努力为进化论赢得公平听证的思想家们，都是在他们共有的精确的知识传统中这样做的。从那些谁寻求住宿的宗教和进化的努力来了一个自由的神学新教。在这里，某些概念脱颖而出，超越了达尔文交换的局部动态。这些和解者提出了共同的想法。他们认为圣经没有告诉科学，他们把它留给科学家来解释自然。他们捍卫一个渐进的启示，而不是一个固定的字面阅读圣经。他们
Livingstone has the title Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen’s University in Belfast. That title is certainly fitting for the author of a book that purports to offer “a geographical perspective” on the clash of ideas provoked by Darwin’s famous publication of 1859. Livingston believes that the controversies surrounding Darwinism always reflected the special circumstances of the place where they occurred. Thus, his “geographies of reading” take us to five locations in the British Isles and North America and his narrative includes references to “rhetorical space” and “cognitive zones,” terms he uses in explaining the different receptions of Darwinism. Livingstone makes much of place, but he does take care to avoid determinism; intellectual history is not the mere “epiphenomena of cultural politics.” Local particulars notwithstanding, commonalities prevail in this study. Livingstone restricts all his treatment of Darwinian reception to five Presbyterian communities—Edinburgh; Belfast; Toronto; Columbia, South Carolina; and Princeton, New Jersey—where those discussing Darwinism had an education in Calvinist theology and in the academic program of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. The thinkers in this study who worked diligently to win a fair hearing for evolution did so within a precise intellectual tradition that they shared. From the efforts of those who sought accommodation of religion and evolution came a liberal theological Protestantism. Herein certain notions stood out, transcending the local dynamics of Darwinian exchanges. These reconcilers advanced common ideas. They believed that the Bible does not inform science and they left it to scientists to explain nature. They defended a progressive revelation, not one fixed in literal readings of Scripture. They