Science and religion in the twenty-first century
Subtitle: the Boyle lectures
By: edited by Russell Re Manning and Michael Byrne
Series: The Boyle lectures; Boyle lectures
Publisher: SCM Press; Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780334045946; 9780334045953
Subjects: Religion and science
Description: "Despite the upsurge in public interest in science-and-religion provoked by the so-called new atheist attacks on religion, there has been surprisingly little publically accessible informed discussion of the central issues at stake in contemporary work at the interface of science and religion. This book fills this gap by providing a snapshot of what is really at stake in contemporary interactions and debates between scientists and theologians. What the collection shows, above all, is the vibrant complexity of discussions in science-and-religion. Old models of conflict between the two disciplines no longer hold; but neither do the alternative comprehensive models of independence, dialogue or integration. What emerges instead is a complex set of relations between science and religion in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Boyle lectureship and its trustees: then and now / Michael Byrne; title: Science and religion in the twenty-first century / Russell Re Manning; title: Darwin, design and the promise of nature / John F. Haught; title: Darwin's compass: how evolution discovers the song of creation / Simon Conway Morris; title: The emergence of spirit: from complexity to anthropology to theology? / Philip Clayton; title: Cosmology of ultimate concern / John D. Barrow; title: Psychologizing and neurologizing about religion: facts, fallacies and the future / Malcolm Jeeves; title: Misusing Darwin: the materialist conspiracy in evolutionary biology / Keith Ward; title: The legacy of Robert Boyle: then and now / John Hedley Brooke; title: Is the world unfinished? On interactions between science and theology in the concepts of nature, time, and the future / Jürgen Moltmann; title: Christ and evolution: a drama of wisdom? / Celia Deane-Drummond; title: Science and religion in dialogue / John Polkinghorne.