The Blackwell companion to science and Christianity /
Companion to science and Christianity
edited by J.B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett.
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xix, 644 pages .) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical episodes. -- Early Christian belief in creation and the beliefs sustaining the modern scientific endeavor / The Copernican revolution and the Galileo affair / Women, mechanical science, and God in the early modern period / Christian responses to Darwinism in the late nineteenth century / Science falsely so called : fundamentalism and science / Methodology. -- How to relate Christian faith and science / Authority / Feminist philosophies of science : towards a prophetic epistemology / Practical objectivity : keeping natural science natural / The evolutionary argument against naturalism / Natural theology. -- Arguments to God from the observable universe / "God of the gaps" arguments / Natural theology after modernism / Religious epistemology personified : God without natural theology / Problems for Christian natural theology / Cosmology and physics. -- Modern cosmology and Christian theology / Does the universe need God? / Does God love the multiverse? / The fine-tuning of the cosmos : a fresh look at its implications / Quantum theory and theology / Evolution. -- Creation and evolution / Darwinism and atheism : a marriage made in heaven? / Creation and evolutionary convergence / Signature in the cell : intelligent design and the DNA enigma / Darwin and intelligent design / Christianity and human evolution / Christian theism and life on earth / The human sciences. -- Toward a cognitive science of Christianity / The third wound : has psychology banished the ghost from the machine? / Sociology and Christianity / Economics and Christian faith / Christopher B. Kaiser -- Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Jacqueline Broad -- Peter J. Bowler -- Edward B. Davis -- Mikael Stenmark -- Nicholas Rescher -- Lisa L. Stenmark -- Alan G. Padgett -- Alvin Plantinga -- Richard Swinburne -- Gregory E. Ganssle -- J.B. Stump -- Paul K. Moser -- Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale -- Stephen M. Barr -- Sean Carroll -- Don N. Page -- Robin Collins -- Rodney D. Holder -- Denis R. Alexander -- Michael Ruse -- Simon Conway Morris -- Stephen C. Meyer -- Francisco J. Ayala -- John F. Haught -- Paul Draper -- Justin L. Barrett -- Dylan Evans -- John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans -- Robin J. Klay. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Christian bioethics. -- Shaping human life at the molecular level / An inclusive framework for stem cell research / The problem of transhumanism in the light of philosophy and theology / Ecology and the environment / Metaphysical implications. -- Free will and rational choice / Science, religion, and infinity / God and abstract objects / Laws of nature / The mind. -- Christianity, neuroscience, and dualism / The emergence of persons / Christianity and the extended-mind thesis / In whose image? Artificial intelligence and the Imago Dei / How science lost its soul, and religion handed it back / Theology. -- The Trinity and scientific reality / God and miracle in an age of science / Eschatology in science and theology / The quest for transcendence in theology and cosmology / Significant figures of the twentieth century in science and Christianity. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / Thomas F. Torrance / Arthur Peacocke / Ian G. Barbour / Wolfhart Pannenberg / John Polkinghorne / James C. Peterson -- John F. Kilner -- Philippe Gagnon -- Lisa H. Sideris -- E.J. Lowe -- Graham Oppy -- William Lane Craig -- Lydia Jaeger -- J.P. Moreland -- William Hasker -- Lynne Rudder Baker -- Noreen Herzfeld -- Julian Baggini -- John Polkinghorne -- Alan G. Padgett -- Robert John Russell -- Alexei V. Nesteruk -- James F. Salmon -- Tapio Luoma -- Taede A. Smedes -- Nathan J. Hallanger -- Hans Schwarz -- Christopher C. Knight. Part VII. Part VIII. Part IV. Part X. Part XI.
This book provides a cutting-edge survey of the central ideas at play at the intersection of science and Christianity through 54 original articles by world-leading scholars and rising stars in the discipline.
9781118256503 1118256506 9781118241455 1118241452 9781118241462 1118241460 9781118256527 1118256522 9781280586774 128058677X
9781118241462 Blackwell http://www.blackwellreference.com E29F305D-CED2-4748-97DB-A91B8674A36A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Religion and science.
Religion and science.
Religion.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
Religion and science.
Electronic books.
BL240.3 / .B62 2012eb
261.5/5
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical episodes. -- Early Christian belief in creation and the beliefs sustaining the modern scientific endeavor / The Copernican revolution and the Galileo affair / Women, mechanical science, and God in the early modern period / Christian responses to Darwinism in the late nineteenth century / Science falsely so called : fundamentalism and science / Methodology. -- How to relate Christian faith and science / Authority / Feminist philosophies of science : towards a prophetic epistemology / Practical objectivity : keeping natural science natural / The evolutionary argument against naturalism / Natural theology. -- Arguments to God from the observable universe / "God of the gaps" arguments / Natural theology after modernism / Religious epistemology personified : God without natural theology / Problems for Christian natural theology / Cosmology and physics. -- Modern cosmology and Christian theology / Does the universe need God? / Does God love the multiverse? / The fine-tuning of the cosmos : a fresh look at its implications / Quantum theory and theology / Evolution. -- Creation and evolution / Darwinism and atheism : a marriage made in heaven? / Creation and evolutionary convergence / Signature in the cell : intelligent design and the DNA enigma / Darwin and intelligent design / Christianity and human evolution / Christian theism and life on earth / The human sciences. -- Toward a cognitive science of Christianity / The third wound : has psychology banished the ghost from the machine? / Sociology and Christianity / Economics and Christian faith / Christopher B. Kaiser -- Maurice A. Finocchiaro -- Jacqueline Broad -- Peter J. Bowler -- Edward B. Davis -- Mikael Stenmark -- Nicholas Rescher -- Lisa L. Stenmark -- Alan G. Padgett -- Alvin Plantinga -- Richard Swinburne -- Gregory E. Ganssle -- J.B. Stump -- Paul K. Moser -- Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale -- Stephen M. Barr -- Sean Carroll -- Don N. Page -- Robin Collins -- Rodney D. Holder -- Denis R. Alexander -- Michael Ruse -- Simon Conway Morris -- Stephen C. Meyer -- Francisco J. Ayala -- John F. Haught -- Paul Draper -- Justin L. Barrett -- Dylan Evans -- John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans -- Robin J. Klay. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI. Christian bioethics. -- Shaping human life at the molecular level / An inclusive framework for stem cell research / The problem of transhumanism in the light of philosophy and theology / Ecology and the environment / Metaphysical implications. -- Free will and rational choice / Science, religion, and infinity / God and abstract objects / Laws of nature / The mind. -- Christianity, neuroscience, and dualism / The emergence of persons / Christianity and the extended-mind thesis / In whose image? Artificial intelligence and the Imago Dei / How science lost its soul, and religion handed it back / Theology. -- The Trinity and scientific reality / God and miracle in an age of science / Eschatology in science and theology / The quest for transcendence in theology and cosmology / Significant figures of the twentieth century in science and Christianity. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / Thomas F. Torrance / Arthur Peacocke / Ian G. Barbour / Wolfhart Pannenberg / John Polkinghorne / James C. Peterson -- John F. Kilner -- Philippe Gagnon -- Lisa H. Sideris -- E.J. Lowe -- Graham Oppy -- William Lane Craig -- Lydia Jaeger -- J.P. Moreland -- William Hasker -- Lynne Rudder Baker -- Noreen Herzfeld -- Julian Baggini -- John Polkinghorne -- Alan G. Padgett -- Robert John Russell -- Alexei V. Nesteruk -- James F. Salmon -- Tapio Luoma -- Taede A. Smedes -- Nathan J. Hallanger -- Hans Schwarz -- Christopher C. Knight. Part VII. Part VIII. Part IV. Part X. Part XI.
This book provides a cutting-edge survey of the central ideas at play at the intersection of science and Christianity through 54 original articles by world-leading scholars and rising stars in the discipline.
9781118256503 1118256506 9781118241455 1118241452 9781118241462 1118241460 9781118256527 1118256522 9781280586774 128058677X
9781118241462 Blackwell http://www.blackwellreference.com E29F305D-CED2-4748-97DB-A91B8674A36A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Religion and science.
Religion and science.
Religion.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
Religion and science.
Electronic books.
BL240.3 / .B62 2012eb
261.5/5