Science, Religion, History, and Hermeneutics suggestions
Suggestions from my doctoral reading lists and dissertation proposal research, which I'd like to see in Logos.
- Grant Wacker, Augustus H. Strong and the Dilemma of Historical Consciousness
- Hans Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in 18th and 19th Century Hermeneutics (classic)
- Bernard Ramm's seminal The Christian View of Science and Scripture
- Numbers and Lindberg, When Science and Christianity Meet
- Same, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science
- Livingstone, Hart, Noll- Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective
- Ronald Numbers, The Creationists
- Barton, The Nature of Biblical Criticism
- Noll, Between Faith and Criticism:Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America
- Brown, The Rise of Biblical Criticism in America, 1800-1870
- Lee, The Erosion of Biblical Certainty: Battles over Authority and Interpretation in America (dense but fantastic)
- Hampton, Storm of Words: Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
- Massa, Charles Augustus Briggs and the Crisis of Historical Criticism
- Numbers and others, The Warfare Between Science and Religion: the Idea that Wouldn't Die
- Hovenkamp, Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860
- Turner, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (this is fantastic)
- Bozenman, Protestants in an Age of Science
- Marsden, Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief
- Grasso, Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil
- Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
- Brettler, Enns, Harrington- the Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
Thanks Ben. This is available in the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library collection
https://www.logos.com/product/168166/anchor-yale-bible-reference-library
So many good ones in that list!
I'll particularly second these: