Description: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Notre Dame, 2017 titled Old science, new problems: a theological analysis of John Zahm's attempt to bridge evolution and Roman Catholicism.
Brief description:
John P. Slattery is a senior program associate with the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Review Quotes:
"No other book has gone into such depth in probing the story of the Catholic Church's censorship of the attempts by the Notre Dame priest and scholar John Zahm to demonstrate that Catholic teaching, generally speaking, is consonant with Darwin's evolutionary science. Faith and Science at Notre Dame provides an original and well-written account of Zahm's life and career. It also provides a detailed study of the often fearful and unjust way in which the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries dealt with some of its most devoted members when they sought to accommodate Church teachings intellectually and religiously to the age of science."--John Haught, author of Resting on the Future: Catholic Theology for an Unfinished Universe