Faith and Science at Notre Dame : John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church

University of Notre Dame Press

Faith and Science at Notre DameJohn Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church\nAuthor(s): John P. Slattery\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268106096, 978-0268106096\nSynopsis\nThe Reverend John Augustine Zahm, CSC, [tel] was a Holy Cross priest, an author, a South American explorer, and a science professor and vice president at the University of Notre Dame, the latter at the age of twenty-five. Through his scientific writings, Zahm argued that Roman Catholicism was fully compatible with an evolutionary view of biological systems. Ultimately Zahm's ideas were not accepted in his lifetime and he was prohibited from discussing evolution and Catholicism, although he remained an active priest for more than two decades after his censure.\n\n In Faith and Science at Notre Dame: John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church, John Slattery charts the rise and fall of Zahm, examining his ascension.