Content by Daniel Langton, Ph.D.
Daniel Langton is a Professor of Jewish History at The University of Manchester , with particular expertise in Jewish-Christian relations.
He is Co-director of the Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS) at Manchester and a co-editor of the journal Melilah. He was a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2013-15, an AHRC Leadership Fellow for 2016-17, and a visiting fellow at the Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
How Darwin Influenced Early Reform Judaism
It’s not an unusual idea to think that Reform Jews are thinking in evolutionary terms. What’s different is that it is Darwin that they’re engaging with.