Darwin's falling sparrow : Victorian evolutionists and the meaning of suffering / Kristin R. Johnson.
- Format
- Book
- Language
- English
- Published/Created
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- Lanham : Prometheus, [2024]
- ©2024
- Description
- xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
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- Subject(s)
- Summary note
- "The book applies a biographical, narrative lens to explore what people in the past believed and why, and how and why those beliefs - about God, nature, history, and human agency - changed over time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Bibliographic references
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The goodness of the deity
- From nature's coffins to her cradles
- The scale of suffering expands
- Darwin and other people's children
- Ten thousand wedges
- Grandeur in this view of life
- The descent of man
- Dealing with descent.
- ISBN
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- 9781633888746
- 1633888746 ((cloth))
- LCCN
- 2023012804
- OCLC
- 1385404930
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