YEARBOOK 2008

By DAVID MILLER

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 “THE PRESBYTERIAN AND ORTHODOX IDIOSYNCRASY OF MIND” 2 NAVIGATING BY THE “POLE-­STAR”: THE ENGAGEMENT WITH MODERNITY 3 A “NEW AND FRISKY SCIENCE”: RACE, RELIGION, AND THE RESPONSE TO ANTHROPOLOGY 4 THE FIDELITY OF A “HANDMAID”: GENESIS AND GEOLOGY IN THE PRESBYTERIAN SOUTH 5 “A REVOLUTION IN OUR CHURCH”: FOUNDING AND FILLING THE PERKINS PROFESSORSHIP 6 “THE SERPENT-­TRAIL OF RATIONALISM” 7 “A CROWN PURE AND BRIGHT”: THE SOUTH­ERN PRESBYTERIAN EVOLUTION CONTROVERSY CONCLUSION NOTES