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Title:
The Blackwell companion to science and Christianity / edited by J.B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett.
Author:
Stump, J. B., editor.

Padgett, Alan G., 1955- editor.
Publication Information:
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Call Number:
BL240.3 .B62 2012
Abstract:
This book 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.
Electronic Access:
ebrary Available to Stanford-affiliated users.
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10542591
ISBN:
9781444335712
Physical Description:
xix, 644 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subject Term:
Contents:
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
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