| Description |
xvi, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1 Religion and science: strategies, definitions, and issues (starting p. 1) -- 1 Introduction: a variety of strategies (starting p. 1) -- 2 Science and naturalism (starting p. 6) -- 3 Religion (starting p. 24) -- 4 Contemporary contexts for religion's relation to science (starting p. 36) -- 5 Classification of areas of discussion in science-and-religion (starting p. 39) -- 6 Issues for further consideration and preview (starting p. 49) -- 2 Histories of relationships between science and religion (starting p. 54) -- 7 The Galileo affair as the founding myth of conflict (starting p. 55) -- 8 Post-Darwinian conflicts in Britain and America (starting p. 63) -- 9 Conflict-views (starting p. 74) -- 10 Christianity as the matrix in which science arose (starting p. 77) -- 11 Non-apologetical apologetics (starting p. 86) -- 12 Lessons to be learned from history (starting p. 89) -- 3 Theology and knowledge of the world (starting p. 92) -- 13 Divine action (starting p. 93) -- 14 Cosmic meaning and mystery (starting p. 106) -- 15 Using scientific discoveries in theology (1): modalities of models (starting p. 115) -- 16 Using scientific discoveries in theology (2): levels and lack of consensus (starting p. 123) -- 17 Scientific realism and defences of theological realism (starting p. 130) -- 18 From the discovery of science to theology? (starting p. 150) -- 4 Theology and knowledge of human nature (starting p. 162) -- 19 Experience as evidence of God? (starting p. 165) -- 20 A naturalist view of religion: religion and the brain (starting p. 172) -- 21 A naturalist view of consciousness (starting p. 183) -- 22 Explanation and elimination (starting p. 189) -- 23 Six debates on evolution and religion (starting p. 196) -- 24 The evolution of moral and religious traditions (starting p. 199) -- 25 Consequences for morality and for religion (starting p. 213) -- 26 Theologies of evolved human religion (starting p. 223) -- 5 Science, religion, and naturalism (starting p. 236) -- 27 Science in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 237) -- 28 Reality in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 244) -- 29 Religion in a naturalist perspective (starting p. 249) -- 30 A richer naturalism? (starting p. 252) -- 31 A more transcendent God? (starting p. 259) -- 32 Religions for wandering and wondering humans (starting p. 274) -- References (starting p. 284) -- Index (starting p. 308) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-307) and index. |
| Subject |
Religion and science.
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Naturalism.
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| Indexed Term |
Religion Related to Science |
| ISBN |
0521497086 hardback |
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