Introduction

KÖLBL-EBERT, M. Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems    

OLDROYD, D. R. Jean-Andre´ de Luc (1727 – 1817): an atheist’s comparative view of the historiography. 

From mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment

MAZADIEGO, L. F., PUCHE, O. & HERVA´ S, A. M. Water and Inca cosmogony: myths, geology and engineering in the Peruvian Andes

BARBARO, P. Explanations of the Earth’s features and origin in pre-Meiji Japan    

NORRIS, J. A. The providence of mineral generation in the sermons of Johann Mathesius (1504 – 1565)

UDÍAS, A. Earthquakes as God’s punishment in 17th- and 18th-century Spain    

MAGRUDER, K. V. The idiom of a six day creation and global depictions in Theories of the Earth    

GODARD, G. The fossil proboscideans of Utica (Tunisia), a key to the ‘giant’ controversy, from  Saint Augustine (424) to Peiresc (1632)

LUZZINI, F. Flood conceptions in Vallisneri’s thought    

The Flood and the age of the Earth

PINTO, M. S. & AMADOR, F. Discussing the age of the Earth in 1779 in Portugal    
 
CANDELA, A. On the Earth’s revolutions: floods and extinct volcanoes in northern Italy at the end of the eighteenth century

SCHWEIZER, C. Scheuchzer, von Haller and de Luc: geological world-views and religious backgrounds in opposition or collaboration?

RUDWICK, M. J. S. Biblical Flood and geological deluge: the amicable dissociation of geology and Genesis

LEWIS, C. L. E. ‘Our favourite science’: Lord Bute and James Parkinson searching for a Theory of the Earth
 
TAQUET, P. Cuvier’s attitude toward creation and the biblical Flood. 

Geology within ‘religious’ organizations

UDÍAS, A. Jesuits’ studies of earthquakes and seismological stations    

ZHANG, J. & OLDROYD, D. R. ‘Red and expert’: Chinese glaciology during the Mao Tse-tung period (1958 – 1976)

Geological clerics and Christian geologists

ROBERTS, M. B. Adam Sedgwick (1785 – 1873): geologist and evangelical    

BRANAGAN, D. Some nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian geological clerics    
 
MAYER, W. Geological observations by the Reverend Charles P. N. Wilton (1795 – 1859) in New South Wales and his views on the relationship between religion and science

VIOHL, G. K. Franz X. Mayr, the spiritual father of the Jura-Museum    

SEIBOLD, E. & SEIBOLD, I. Religious convictions as support in dangerous expeditions: Hermann Abich (1806 – 1886) and Heinrich Barth (1821 – 1865)

TURNER, S. Reverent and exemplary: ‘dinosaur man’ Friedrich von Huene (1875 – 1969)    

Evolution

TORRENS, H. S. James Buckman (1841 – 1884): the scientific career of an English Darwinian thwarted by religious prejudice

KLEMUN, M. Franz Unger and Sebastian Brunner on evolution and the visualization of Earth history; a debate between liberal and conservative Catholics

VACCARI, E. Geology and Genesis in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy: a preliminary assessment

History of creationism

BORK, K. B. Natural theology in the eighteenth century, as exemplified in the writings of E´lie Bertrand (1713 – 1797), a Swiss naturalist and Protestant pastor

YOUNG, D. A. The reception of geology in the Dutch Reformed tradition: the case of Herman Bavinck (1854 – 1921)

MOSHIER, S. O., MAAS, D. E. & GREENBERG, J. K. From the beginning: faith and geology at evangelical Wheaton College

PETERS, R. A. Theodicic creationism: its membership and motivations    

Theology and creationism

OSTERMANN, M. The history of the doctrine of creation; a Catholic perspective    

ROBERTS, M. B. An Anglican priest’s perspective on the doctrine of creation in the church today    

Index