Darwin`s Religious Odyssey

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Growing up Anglican ............................. 1
Early Religious Influences ........................ 1
Paley`s Sway over the Prospective Priest ............. 6
Clerical Mentors and Friends ..................... 9
2. The Christian Voyager ........................... 16
Religious Perspectives in South America ........... 18
Indignation over Slavery ........................ 21
Challenges to Theological Doctrines............... 24
Visiting Protestant Missionary Areas .............. 25
3. The Unorthodox Theorist........................ 31
The Bible Revisited ............................ 31
Other Religious Reflections...................... 36
His Eventful Thirties ........................... 40
An Agonizing Decade .......................... 51
4. The Evolutionary Tree of Life. .................... 59
Enter Gray and Wallace......................... 59
The Origin of Species ........................... 60
Theism Affirmed .............................. 75
5. Religious Controversies over Natural Selection ....... 80
In Britain .................................... 80
In America................................... 96
6. The Homo Sapiens Creation .................... 107
The Animality of Humans ..................... 107
The Evolution of Morality and Religion ..........112
Responses to The Descent of Man ................ 126
7. Final Personal Considerations ................... 141
Two Similar Agnostics ......................... 142
Latter-day Religion ........................... 148
Memorializing the Scientific Saint ...............155
Reverent Charles Darwin ...................... 158
8. Theological Conclusions ....................... 172
The Design Argument Transformed.............. 172
The Theodicy Issue Reformulated ............... 177
Biblical Interpretation ......................... 181
Darwin`s Religious Legacy ...................... 189