Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought  by David N. Livingstone 

Tracing the Christian response to evolution from the mid-19th century to the present, Livingstone finds accommodation to have been more common than confrontation. Nineteenth-century theologians concentrated upon reconciling evolutionary thought with the existence of a Divine plan for the universe. It was only with the rise of Fundamentalism, which saw evolutionary theory as an attack upon the authority of scripture and as yet another of the modern forces demolishing society’s old values, that a split between religion and science developed. Hence, Livingstone concludes, this split is not necessary. While not as comprehensive as James R. Moore’s The Post-Darwinian Controveries ( LJ 7/79), this is an excellent work. D. Stephen Rockwood, Mount Saint Mary’s Coll. Lib., Emmitsburg, Md.

An Amazon reviewer says: “Especially intriguing is the reaction to evolution in Princeton. There we discover “the Fundamentals” contributor B.B. Warfield held to both a theistic evolutionary scheme of creation AND inerrancy! “