Dominick McCausland

Dominick McCausland LL.D. QC (1806–1873) was an Irish barrister and Christian author.

Career

By profession a barrister, McCausland obtained a B.A. in law at Trinity College, Dublin in 1835 further followed by a doctorate in 1859. He was later appointed as Crown Prosecutor.^[1]

Biblical ethnology

McCausland published two works on ethnology, Adam and the Adamite (1872) followed by The builders of Babel (1874). In these works McCausland attempted to harmonise scripture with ethnology and argued that the Book of Genesis refers almost exclusively to only one race, the "Adamic", or Caucasian as opposed to multiple races.^[2]

These two books on ethnology were influential to the Christian Identity movement and McCausland himself was an early proponent of Preadamism.

Works

The Latter Days of the Jewish Church and Nation (1842)
The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse (1852)
Sermons in stone: or scripture confirmed by geology (1857)
Shinar (1867)
Adam and the Adamite (1872)
The builders of Babel (1874) Some works are still in print.^[3]

See also

• Ethel Bristowe
• Laurence Waddell

References

1. ^ Adam's ancestors: race, religion, and the politics of human origins, David N. Livingstone, JHU Press, 2008, p. 103.
2. ^ The forging of races: race and scripture in the Protestant Atlantic world 1600 - 2000, Colin Kidd, 2006, p. 162; Patrick Maume “Dominick McCausland and Adam’s Ancestors: an Irish Evangelical responds to the Scientific Challenge to Biblical Inerrancy” in Juliana Adelman and Eadaoin Agnew (eds) Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011).
3. ^ http://www.borders.com.au/by/dominick-mccausland/

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Name	Mccausland, Dominick
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Date of birth	1806
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Date of death	1873
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