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Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

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ISBN-10: 1444335715

ISBN-13: 9781444335712

Edition: 2012

Authors: J. B. Stump, Alan G. Padgett

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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 disciplineFocuses 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 othersAddresses major historical developments in the relationship between science and Christianity, including…    
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Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Historical Episodes
Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor
The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair
Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period
Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science
Methodology
How to Relate Christian Faith and Science
Authority
Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology
Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural
The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
Natural Theology
Arguments to God from the Observable Universe
"God of the Gaps" Arguments
Natural Theology after Modernism
Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology
Problems for Christian Natural Theology
Cosmology and Physics
Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology
Does the Universe Need God?
Does God Love the Multiverse?
The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at Its Implications
Quantum Theory and Theology
Evolution
Creation and Evolution
Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?
Creation and Evolutionary Convergence
Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma
Darwin and Intelligent Design
Christianity and Human Evolution
Christian Theism and Life on Earth
The Human Sciences
Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity
The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine?
Sociology and Christianity
Economics and Christian Faith
Christian Bioethics
Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level
An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research
The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology
Ecology and the Environment
Metaphysical Implications
Free Will and Rational Choice
Science, Religion, and Infinity
God and Abstract Objects
Laws of Nature
The Mind
Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism
The Emergence of Persons
Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis
In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei
How Science Lost Its Soul, and Religion Handed It Back
Theology
The Trinity and Scientific Reality
God and Miracle in an Age of Science
Eschatology in Science and Theology
The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology
Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Thomas F. Torrance
Arthur Peacocke
Ian G. Barbour
Wolfhart Pannenberg
John Polkinghorne
Index