Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.