Table of Contents

An encounter between science and religion; preliminary observations.- I Lectures in full sessions.- Epitome of Part I.- to the conference theme.- Science and religion.- Fundamental issues in theology and science.- Science and religion — the Jewish position.- Reconciling developments in the natural sciences — the question of scientism.- Physics, life and mind.- Reconciling concepts between natural science and theology.- A revived natural theology.- Reconciling developments in theology — the question of dogmatism.- Theology and cosmology beyond the Big Bang theory.- God’s world and man becoming: how can science possibly help us transcend dogmatism?.- The divorce of science and religion — a process in retrospect.- Historical interaction between science and religion.- Is there a role for theology in an age of secular science?.- Science and religion studies today and tomorrow.- Science and religion coming across.- Creation and Big Bang: the word as space of creation.- II Contributions in sectional meetings.- Science and religion: a Ghanaian perspective.- The mystical ideal and the humanistic ideal within the world of ideals in the sciences.- Scientifico truth and religious truth.- Two approaches and one reality: on religion and the perception of the Cosmos.- Man and the high-technology society.- On David Bohm’s theory of wholeness and implicate order: provisional notes, some of which with special regard to the possible applications to the philosophy of religion.- A. Koyré and the metaphysics of modern science.- The unus mundus (One World) as meeting ground of science and religion.- The play that is going on in the cosmic scenery.- A report from the Reformed College of Debrecen.- Interdisciplinary lectures at 6 o’clock.- Beyond the alternative: divorce ormethodological chaos.- Neither divorce nor reconciliation: is there a gospel for the sciences?.- The experience of limits: new physics and new theology.- Evolution and progressive revelation: the Bahá’ i approach to a converging reality.- Beyond dogmatism: rationality in theology and science.- Spirituality and science: summary of purpose and proceedings.- The unchanged relationship of theology and science.- The concept of evolution: its reception in philosophy and theology.- Secularization of nature during the early Enlightenment: conceptions of water circulation as an impulse for secularization.- The scientific mind and personal faith.- The views of a Hungarian catholic scholar on evolution at the end of the nineteenth century.- Traditional religion and Christianity.- A generalized principle of complementarity — seen as a sign.- Evolution and future of human possibilities of gaining knowledge.- The relation between science and theology: the case for complementarity revisited.- Base the science-religion dialogue on facts, not on doctrines!.- The reconciliation of social science and theology: is it still not possible?.- A new perspective on reality.- Humanitas ecologica.- On a relativistic structure in theology.- The Academy of Research of the Evangelical Church of the Union, German Democratic Republic, a research report.- The split between science and religion and the doctrine of God’s immanence in nature.- III List of names and addresses.