The Science and Religion Dialogue Past and Future.
Title:
The Science and Religion Dialogue Past and Future.
Author:
Welker, Michael.
ISBN:
9783653048742
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. Celebrating the Past -- Shaping the Future; The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future (Thomas Pfeiffer); The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future (Michael Welker); Opening Address (John M. Templeton, Jr); Commemorating Sir John Templeton (1912-2012) (Stephen Post); Science and Religion Dialogue (Michael Murray); II. On the Engagement of Science and Religion; The Natural History of Religion (Hans Joas); God and Evolution (Martin A. Nowak); The Search for Truth (John Polkinghorne).
III. The Science and Theology Dialogue I: Multi-Year Research ProjectsA Contribution to the Eschatology Session (John Polkinghorne); Eschatology, Anthropology, and Concepts of Law (Michael Welker); The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion -- the First Seven Years (Denis R. Alexander); Theological Inquiry and the Science and Religion Dialogue (Friederike Nüssel, Robin Lovin); Science and Redemption: The Future of Creation (Ted Peters); Scientific Cosmology and the Theologies of Creation and Redemption (Robert John Russell).
IV. The Science and Theology Dialogue II: Multicontextual DimensionsThe Dialogue between Science and Religion in Russia (Cyril Hovorun); The Role of Thought Experiments in Science and Religion (Niels Henrik Gregersen); A Postfoundationalist Approach to Theology and Science (J. Wentzel van Huyssteen); Insiders and Outsiders in 'Religion and Science' (Willem B. Drees); V. Astronomy and Mathematics; Cosmology and the Human Condition (Chris Impey); Note on Formal Reasoning in Theology (Matthias Baaz); VI. Physics and Biology; The Search for Evidence-Based Reality (G.A.D. Briggs).
If the Evolution of Intelligence is inevitable, then what are the Metaphysical Consequences? (Simon Conway Morris)The Use of Metaphors when Talking about the Nature of Organisms (Günter P. Wagner); VII. Religious Ethics and Philosophical Theology; Atheism and Analytical Thinking (Kelly James Clark); Freedom within Religion. Religious Ethics and Social Life (William Schweiker); VIII. Philanthropic Investment and the Future Generations: Three (of Sixty) Winners of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise (2007-2011).
The Templeton Award and Professional Development for Young Scholars (Jan Stievermann)"The Divine Fire in All Things" -- Orthodox Cosmology in Dialogue with Science (Daniel Munteanu); God's Spirituality The Trinitarian Dynamics of Prayer (Eva Harasta); Contributors.
Abstract:
This book documents the conference on The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future, held at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, October 25-29, 2012. The conference commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the John Templeton Foundation. It brought together about 60 active participants, all of them prominent scholars from many countries and many academic fields. Most of them have been engaged in the Science and Religion Dialogue for the last two or three decades. This book reports on multi-year international a.
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