Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

Langdon Gilkey

University of Virginia Press, 1998 - History - 304 pages

Creationism on Trial is Gilkey's blow-by-blow account of his experiences as a witness for the ACLU at the 1981 creationist trial in Little Rock, AR.

Contents

• Preparation for the Case: 19
• Deposition: 42
• Religious and Historical: 74
• Theological and Philosophical: 94
• The Overwhelming Weight: 127
• Analysis and Reflection: 159
• The Shape of a Religious Symbol and: 209
• Notes: 235
• Legal Documents: 260

About the author

Born in Chicago, Langdon Gilkey received his B.A. at Harvard University (1940) and earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University (1954). He has been a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University (1950--51) and has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, the first to Germany in 1960--61, and then to Rome in 1965. Gilkey is currently a professor of theology emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Gilkey's pedagogical concern is in examining the place of religion within a secular culture. With the prevailing appearance of religious sentiments such as fundamentalism, cult practices, meditation, and private ideology, he notes religion to be very much an aspect of our scientific and technological age. The question for our age, Gilkey says, will be "not will religion survive, as much as will we survive and with what sort of religion, a creative or demonic one?"

Bibliographic information

• Title: Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock; Studies in religion and culture
• Author: Langdon Gilkey
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0813918545, 9780813918549
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General; Law / General; Law / Legal History; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Creation; Religion / Philosophy; Religion / Theism; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution