The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Stump, J. B.; Padgett, Alan G.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118256503
• Artikelnr.: 37349378

Autorenporträt

J.B. Stump is Professor of Philosophy and directs the philosophy program at Bethel College (Indiana, USA). He is the philosophy editor of Christian Scholar's Review, and has published articles there as well as in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophia Christi. He has co-authored (with Chad Meister) Christian Thought: A Historical Introduction (2010). Alan G. Padgett is Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Long involved in the dialogue between theology and science, he is a member of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and has lectured in Europe, Canada, the US and China on religion and theology. He has authored or edited 10 other books, including Science and the Study of God (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xviii
J. B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett
Part I Historical Episodes 1
1 Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern
Scientific Endeavor 3
Christopher B. Kaiser
2 The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair 14
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
3 Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period 26
Jacqueline Broad
4 Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century 37
Peter J. Bowler
5 Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science 48
Edward B. Davis
Part II Methodology 61
6 How to Relate Christian Faith and Science 63
Mikael Stenmark
7 Authority 74
Nicholas Rescher
8 Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology 82
Lisa L. Stenmark
9 Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural 93
Alan G. Padgett
10 The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism 103
Alvin Plantinga
Part III Natural Theology 117
11 Arguments to God from the Observable Universe 119
Richard Swinburne
12 "God of the Gaps" Arguments 130
Gregory E. Ganssle
13 Natural Theology after Modernism 140
J. B. Stump
14 Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology 151
Paul K. Moser
15 Problems for Christian Natural Theology 162
Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale
Part IV Cosmology and Physics 173
16 Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology 175
Stephen M. Barr
17 Does the Universe Need God? 185
Sean Carroll
18 Does God Love the Multiverse? 198
Don N. Page
19 The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at its Implications 207
Robin Collins
20 Quantum Theory and Theology 220
Rodney D. Holder
Part V Evolution 231
21 Creation and Evolution 233
Denis R. Alexander
22 Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven? 246
Michael Ruse
23 Creation and Evolutionary Convergence 258
Simon Conway Morris
24 Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma 270
Stephen C. Meyer
25 Darwin and Intelligent Design 283
Francisco J. Ayala
26 Christianity and Human Evolution 295
John F. Haught
27 Christian Theism and Life on Earth 306
Paul Draper
Part VI The Human Sciences 317
28 Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity 319
Justin L. Barrett
29 The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine? 335
Dylan Evans
30 Sociology and Christianity 344
John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans
31 Economics and Christian Faith 356
Robin J. Klay
Part VII Christian Bioethics 369
32 Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level 371
James C. Peterson
33 An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research 381
John F. Kilner
34 The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology 393
Philippe Gagnon
35 Ecology and the Environment 406
Lisa H. Sideris
Part VIII Metaphysical Implications 419
36 Free Will and Rational Choice 421
E. J. Lowe
37 Science, Religion, and Infinity 430
Graham Oppy
38 God and Abstract Objects 441
William Lane Craig
39 Laws of Nature 453
Lydia Jaeger
Part IX The Mind 465
40 Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism 467
J. P. Moreland
41 The Emergence of Persons 480
William Hasker
42 Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis 491
Lynne Rudder Baker
43 In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei 500
Noreen Herzfeld
44 How Science Lost its Soul, and Religion Handed it Back 510
Julian Baggini
Part X Theology 521
45 The Trinity and Scientific Reality 523
John Polkinghorne
46 God and Miracle in an Age of Science 533
Alan G. Padgett
47 Eschatology in Science and Theology 543
Robert John Russell
48 The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology 554
Alexei V. Nesteruk
Part XI Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and
Christianity 565
49 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 567
James F. Salmon
50 Thomas F. Torrance 578
Tapio Luoma
51 Arthur Peacocke 589
Taede A. Smedes
52 Ian G. Barbour 600
Nathan J. Hallanger
53 Wolfhart Pannenberg 611
Hans Schwarz
54 John Polkinghorne 622
Christopher C. Knight
Index 632