Negotiating Darwin

This “well-researched and insightful study” reveals the secret deliberations that decided the Vatican’s stance on evolution ( Catholic Historical Review ). Drawing on primary sources made available to scholars only after the archives of the Holy Office were unsealed in 1998,  Negotiating Darwin  chronicles how the Vatican reacted when six Catholics—five clerics and one layman—tried to integrate evolution and Christianity in the decades following the publication of Darwin’s  Origin