Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin

1. Introduction: Natural Theology, Leading up to Bacon
Stuart Peterfreund

2. Getting Back to the Garden and the Temple: Bacon, the Design of the Creature, Deferral, and Instauration
Stuart Peterfreund

3. Leaving Bacon Behind: Robert Boyle’s Legacy and the Mechanization of Natural Theology
Stuart Peterfreund

4. The Second Moses Reconsidered, or, Back to Bacon and Beyond: Mosaic Natural Theology in the Age of Newton
Stuart Peterfreund

5. Systems Within or Connected to Systems: From Newton to Paley
Stuart Peterfreund

6. From Paley to Darwin: Systems and the Ramifications of Design
Stuart Peterfreund

7. Epilogue: Intelligent Design?
Stuart Peterfreund

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Religion, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, Christian Theology