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The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.
Title:
The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity.
Author:
Stump, J. B.
ISBN:
9781118256503
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (666 pages)
Contents:
THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Historical Episodes -- 1: Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor -- 2: The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair -- 3: Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period -- 4: Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 5: Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science -- Part II: Methodology -- 6: How to Relate Christian Faith and Science -- 7: Authority -- 8: Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology -- 9: Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural -- 10: The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism -- Part III: Natural Theology -- 11: Arguments to God from the Observable Universe -- 12: "God of the Gaps" Arguments -- 13: Natural Theology after Modernism -- 14: Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology -- 15: Problems for Christian Natural Theology -- Part IV: Cosmology and Physics -- 16: Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology -- 17: Does the Universe Need God? -- 18: Does God Love the Multiverse? -- 19: The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at Its Implications -- 20: Quantum Theory and Theology -- Part V: Evolution -- 21: Creation and Evolution -- 22: Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven? -- 23: Creation and Evolutionary Convergence -- 24: Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma -- 25: Darwin and Intelligent Design -- 26: Christianity and Human Evolution -- 27: Christian Theism and Life on Earth -- Part VI: The Human Sciences -- 28: Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity -- 29: The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine? -- 30: Sociology and Christianity.

31: Economics and Christian Faith -- Part VII: Christian Bioethics -- 32: Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level -- 33: An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research -- 34: The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology -- 35: Ecology and the Environment -- Part VIII: Metaphysical Implications -- 36: Free Will and Rational Choice -- 37: Science, Religion, and Infinity -- 38: God and Abstract Objects -- 39: Laws of Nature -- Part IX: The Mind -- 40: Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism -- 41: The Emergence of Persons -- 42: Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis -- 43: In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei -- 44: How Science Lost Its Soul, and Religion Handed It Back -- Part X: Theology -- 45: The Trinity and Scientific Reality -- 46: God and Miracle in an Age of Science -- 47: Eschatology in Science and Theology -- 48: The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology -- Part XI: Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity -- 49: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 50: Thomas F. Torrance -- 51: Arthur Peacocke -- 52: Ian G. Barbour -- 53: Wolfhart Pannenberg -- 54: John Polkinghorne -- Index.
Abstract:
A cutting-edge survey of contemporary thought at the intersection of science and Christianity. 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 Focuses on Christianity's interaction with Science to offer a fine-grained analysis of issues such as multiverse theories in cosmology, convergence in evolution, Intelligent Design, natural theology, human consciousness, artificial intelligence, free will, miracles, and the Trinity, amongst many others Addresses major historical developments in the relationship between science and Christianity, including Christian patristics, the scientific revolution, the reception of Darwin, and twentieth century fundamentalism Divided into 9 Parts: Historical Episodes; Methodology; Natural Theology; Cosmology & Physics; Evolution; The Human Sciences; Christian Bioethics; Metaphysical Implications; The Mind; Theology; and Significant Figures of the 20th Century Includes diverse perspectives and broadens the conversation from the Anglocentric tradition.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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