A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: Volume 1, From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods 1e uitgave

White began to assemble his magnum opus, a two volume work first published in 1896. In correspondence he wrote that he intended the work to stake out a position between such religious orthodoxy as John Henry Newman's on one side and such secular scoffing as Robert Ingersoll's on the other.