Foreword: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; BOOK ONE; 1. An Introduction to the Debate between Science and Religion - Christopher Southgate and Michael Poole; 2. The Significance of the Theology of Creation Within Christian Tradition: Systematic Considerations - Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson; 3. Learning from the Past - John Hedley Brooke; 4. Truth and Reason in Science and Theology - Paul D. Murray; BOOK TWO; 5. Theology and the New Physics - Lawrence Osborn; 6. Theology and Evolutionary Biology - Christopher Southgate and Michael Robert Negus; 7. Psychology and Theology - Fraser Watts; BOOK THREE; 8. Some resources for Christian theology in an ecological age - Christopher Southgate; 9. Some resources for thinking about God and the world from outside the Christian tradition - Christopher Southgate and Michael Robert Negus; 10. A Test Case: Divine Action - Christopher Southgate; BOOK FOUR; 11. Science and Education - Michael Poole; 12. Islam and Science - Michael Robert Negus; 13. Technology and Christianity - Jacqui Stewart; 14. Biotechnology - A New Challenge to Theology and Ethics - Celia Deane-Drummond; BOOK FIVE; 15. A look to the future - Christopher Southgate.
Dr. Christopher Southgate is Research Fellow in Theology at the
University of Exeter in England.
"Bringing together an all-British cast of eight academics with
specialties in theology, biochemistry, genetics and science
education, Southgate has designed a resource ideal for
science-and-religion courses. Several student or reader exercises
are spread throughout the text." - Science & Theology News, October
2005
mention - W. Charles Heiser, Theology Digest, Vol. 52, No. 4,
Winter 2005
'A good read and thought provoking on many topics ... A useful
survey of many of the key issues in the science-religion debate and
good introduction to the literature on the topic.' Meric Srokosz,
Science & Christian Belief, 2008
'The second edition maintains the five-book organizational
structure, with book 1 expanded to include more introductory
material related to the science and religion debate. The authors
have preserved the suggested discussion exercises and the "note for
teachers." The text contains numerous chapter citations for
extended treatments of the topics in view, and is replete with
notes and references. This book is an important core text for
undergraduate or graduate courses in science and religion. Summing
Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and up.'
J.A. Hewlett, Choice
'This new edition [is] the most broadly-based, maturely considered
and lucidly written science-religion overview in the English
language. For me, as for Arthur Peacocke, quoted on the
cover, it is "an irreplaceable resource".' Neil Spurway, ESSSAT
News 16.2
'The invitation of the book to explore the two 'maps' together is
one that anyone with integrity in either field should not decline.'
Roz Mathews, Themelios, 32/1
'A valuable book' Peter Ballantine ANVIL Vol. 24 No. 1,
2007
'Not only is God, Humanity and the Cosmos directly addressed to
teachers and students, and as such manages to be remarkably
accessible; it also carefully addresses all the contemporary issues
in the field, but in such a way that it moves the theology and
science debate to the cutting edge of the current conversation.'
Professor J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological
Seminary
*Blurb from reviewer*
'The first edition of this work was unique, in the
science-and-religion field, of being a text eminently suitable both
for beginners and for those working at its frontiers. This second
edition eminently manifests the same admirable qualities by
containing chapters - especially valuable for newcomers -expanding
the history of the field and by critically surveying contentious
issues which have arisen since the first one - such as the nature
of divine action, panentheism, kenosis,and biotechnology. An
irreplaceable resource.'
*Blurb from reviewer*
Praise for the first edition: 'This comprehensive work has the rare
virtue of combining readableness with accurate and detailed
judgements on the outstanding issues in past and contemporary
interactions between science and religion. It is both the book for
students we have been waiting for and also a refreshing survey of
the field for those currently engaged in it.'--Dr Arthur Peacocke,
Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford
*Blurb from reviewer*
'To write under a title like this, you have to be good! But
Christopher Southgate and his team are fully up to the challenge.
The first edition of this book was the No 1 volume on my
science-&-religion shelves, and this new edition is even
better.' 'This includes the most telling analogy I have seen
to chronology of earth history: modelling this as a book of 450
pages, the persiod since Abraham would be just the last letter!'
'The volume itself...is exemplary in its awareness of the
non-expert in each of its fields. Both scientific and theological
terms are meticulously defined - a feature as helpful to the
general reader as to the student. There us very lilttle assumption
of background knowledge. Managing, nonetheless, to take readers to
the forefront of almost every debate is a considerable achievement.
I therefore consider this new edition the most
broadly-based, maturely considered and lucidly written
science-religion overview in the English language. For me, as for
Arthur Peacocke, quoted on the cover, it is 'an irreplaceable
resource.''
*ESSSAT News*
'makes a good read for someone wishing to find a balance between
religious teachings and scientific findings'
*Methodist Recorder*
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