How To Relate Science And Religion
Subtitle: A Multidimensional Model
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780802828231
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Philosophy of science; Religion and science; Religion - Socialissues; Religion; Religion & Science
First sentence: The relationship between Darwin's theory of evolution and religion has been, to say the least, a controversial topic ever since the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859.
Description: Today there are two very different views concerning the relation of science and religion. On the one hand is the view that there is no limit to the competency of science, including its ability to subsume the traditional domains of religion and values. On the other hand is the view that science ought to itself be shaped in a significant way by religion. In this book these opposing views are presented, critically discussed, and replaced with a badly needed conciliatory model of science and religion. Written by Templeton Prize-winner Mikael Stenmark, How to Relate Science and Religion points an exciting way forward in the effort to reconcile what are arguably the two most powerful cultural forces of our time. Stenmark succinctly lays out the central issues of the debate and shows what is at stake for the nature and advancement of human knowledge. The outcome of Stenmark's work is the construction of a "multidimensional model" of science and religion that refuses to automatically prioritize either. Stenmark shows the ongoing though shifting value of both science and religion played out as a dynamic, evolving relationship.