Routledge Science and Religion Series
About the Book Series
Science and religion have often been thought to be at loggerheads but much contemporary work in this flourishing interdisciplinary field suggests this is far from the case. The Science and Religion Series presents exciting new work to advance interdisciplinary study, research and debate across key themes in science and religion. Contemporary issues in philosophy and theology are debated, as are prevailing cultural assumptions. The series enables leading international authors from a range of different disciplinary perspectives to apply the insights of the various sciences, theology, philosophy and history in order to look at the relations between the different disciplines and the connections that can be made between them. These accessible, stimulating new contributions to key topics across science and religion will appeal particularly to individual academics and researchers, graduates, postgraduates and upper-undergraduate students.
Intersections of Religion and Astronomy
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Corbally, Darry Dinell, Aaron Ricker
May 30, 2022
This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which we each deal with religious questions and participate in the imaginative work of public and private...
Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion: Moving Forward from Natural Theology
1st Edition
By Rodney Holder
May 06, 2022
This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources ...
Reconstructing a Christian Theology of Nature: Down to Earth
1st Edition
By Anna Case-Winters
December 13, 2021
In the present ecological crisis, it is imperative that human beings reconsider their place within nature and find new, more responsible and sustainable ways of living. Assumptions about the nature of God, the world, and the human being, shape our thinking and, consequently, our acting. Some have ...
Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self
1st Edition
By Léon Turner
September 30, 2021
Is the human self singular and unified or essentially plural? This book explores the seemingly disparate ways that Christian theology and the secular human sciences have approached this complex question. The latter have largely embraced the idea of the plural self as an inescapable, even adaptive ...
Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman Back to Human
1st Edition
By Brent Waters
June 30, 2021
We are living in an emerging technoculture. Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically ...
God's Action in Nature's World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell
1st Edition
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By Ted Peters, Nathan Hallanger
June 30, 2021
In 1981 Robert John Russell founded what would become the leading center of research at the interface of science and religion, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. Throughout its twenty-five year history, CTNS under Russell's leadership has continued to guide and further the dialogue ...
Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul: Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion
1st Edition
By Mark Graves
June 30, 2021
Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole is more than the sum of the parts. This book uses information and systems theory to describe the "more" that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the synapses”or apparently empty ...
Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology
1st Edition
By Josh Reeves
June 30, 2020
Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues. Following the lead of Thomas Kuhn, many scholars in this interdisciplinary field have offered proposals that purport to show how ...
God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall
1st Edition
By Bethany N. Sollereder
June 30, 2020
After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, theologians were faced with the dilemma of God creating through evolution. Suddenly, pain, suffering, untimely death and extinction appeared to be the very tools of creation, and not a result of the sin of humanity. Despite this paradigm ...
Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes and the Self: Emerging Technologies and Human Identity
1st Edition
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By Joseph Tham, Chris Durante, Alberto García Gómez
June 30, 2020
Attitudes towards science, medicine and the body are all profoundly shaped by people’s worldviews. When discussing issues of bioethics, religion often plays a major role. In this volume, the role of genetic manipulation and neurotechnology in shaping human identity is examined from multiple ...
Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty: How the Personal Perspective Discovers Creation
1st Edition
By Robert Gilbert
December 12, 2019
When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person? Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty re-examines the way in which seeing beauty in the world plays the key role in scientific ...
The Intelligent Design Debate and the Temptation of Scientism
1st Edition
By Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen
December 12, 2019
The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with no signs of ending. For its defenders, ID is revolutionary new science, and its opposition is merely ideological. For its critics, ID is both bad science and bad theology. But the polemical nature of the ...