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This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented.

This book explores the philosophical and theological significance of evolutionary anthropology and includes diverse approaches to the relationship between evolution, culture and religion.

This book investigates the nature and relevance of conjunctive explanations in the context of science and religion.

This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day.

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return.

This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours.

This volume engages with the relative absence and underrepresentation of female voices in the field of science and religion, which tends to be dominated by male academics who are in the later stages of their careers.

Assumptions about the nature of God, the world, and human being, shape our thinking and, consequently, our acting. Some say that the Christian tradition has been a hindrance than help because its theology of nature has legitimated the exploitation of nature. This book argues that Christian tradition has a more viable theology of nature to offer.

Is the human self unified or do we each have several selves? This book explores the answers that Christian theology and the secular Human Sciences tend to give to this question. Introducing a framework to distinguish the understandings of self-plurality, this work argues that Theology's blanket condemnation of the notion is inappropriate.

This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented.

Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values.

In 1981, Robert John Russell founded the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. This book assesses Robert Russell's impact on the discipline of science and religion. It focuses on three areas of Russell's work - methodology, cosmology, and divine action in quantum physics.

Drawing upon the disciplines of cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, general systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and Christian theology, this book reinterprets the traditional doctrine of the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary scientific study of the human soul.

The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with no signs of ending. With a balanced analysis of a controversial debate, this volume argues that beliefs about the purposiveness or non-purposiveness of nature should not be based merely on science.

Intends to bridge the reductionist divide between science and religion through examination and critique of different aspects of the cognitive science of religion and offers a conciliatory approach that investigates the multiple causal factors involved in the emergence of religion.

Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. This book offers contributions to the quest for an account of ourselves that does justice to the developments in theology, science, technology, and philosophy.

This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours.

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "the heavens" shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return.

Aims to clarify theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a "posthuman theology" is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one which coincides with a theological vision of the human.

Presents a celebration, survey and critique of the theological work of arguably the most important and most widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, this book focuses on key aspects of Polkinghorne's work.

A critical introduction to the science-theology debate. This book describes connections between physics, philosophy and theology and then explains Newtonian physics and Victorian physics, the theories of relativity, astronomy and quantum mechanics, and distinguishes the actual results of modern physics from speculations.

Provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. The book argues that such naturalism is not necessary for the cognitive study of religion and develops an alternative philosophical and methodological framework.

In the 1990s, great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists. This book explores the progress begun during that momentous decade in understanding why we behave, think and feel the way we do, especially in those areas that interface with religion.

In this text,scientists' views about science and its relationship to knowledge, ethics and religion are subjected to critical scrutiny. It asks if science can teach how to live morally and if it should be our new religion. The author concludes that Scientism is disguised materialism or naturalism.

Laying the groundwork for a new synthesis of scientific and theological dialogue, this book proposes that neurotheology, a term fraught with potential problems, is a highly useful and important voice in the greater study of religious and theological ideas and their intersection with science.