The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO SCIENCE AND CHRISTIANITY......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 20
Part I: Historical Episodes......Page 23
1: Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor......Page 25
2: The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair......Page 36
3: Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period......Page 48
4: Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century......Page 59
5: Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science......Page 70
Part II: Methodology......Page 83
6: How to Relate Christian Faith and Science......Page 85
7: Authority......Page 96
8: Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology......Page 104
9: Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural......Page 115
10: The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism......Page 125
Part III: Natural Theology......Page 139
11: Arguments to God from the Observable Universe......Page 141
12: “God of the Gaps” Arguments......Page 152
13: Natural Theology after Modernism......Page 162
14: Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology......Page 173
15: Problems for Christian Natural Theology......Page 184
Part IV: Cosmology and Physics......Page 195
16: Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology......Page 197
17: Does the Universe Need God?......Page 207
18: Does God Love the Multiverse?......Page 220
19: The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at Its Implications......Page 229
20: Quantum Theory and Theology......Page 242
Part V: Evolution......Page 253
21: Creation and Evolution......Page 255
22: Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?......Page 268
23: Creation and Evolutionary Convergence......Page 280
24: Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma......Page 292
25: Darwin and Intelligent Design......Page 305
26: Christianity and Human Evolution......Page 317
27: Christian Theism and Life on Earth......Page 328
Part VI: The Human Sciences......Page 339
28: Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity......Page 341
29: The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine?......Page 357
30: Sociology and Christianity......Page 366
31: Economics and Christian Faith......Page 378
Part VII: Christian Bioethics......Page 391
32: Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level......Page 393
33: An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research......Page 403
34: The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology......Page 415
35: Ecology and the Environment......Page 428
Part VIII: Metaphysical Implications......Page 441
36: Free Will and Rational Choice......Page 443
37: Science, Religion, and Infinity......Page 452
38: God and Abstract Objects......Page 463
39: Laws of Nature......Page 475
Part IX: The Mind......Page 487
40: Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism......Page 489
41: The Emergence of Persons......Page 502
42: Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis......Page 513
43: In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei......Page 522
44: How Science Lost Its Soul, and Religion Handed It Back......Page 532
Part X: Theology......Page 543
45: The Trinity and Scientific Reality......Page 545
46: God and Miracle in an Age of Science......Page 555
47: Eschatology in Science and Theology......Page 565
48: The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology......Page 576
Part XI: Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity......Page 587
49: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin......Page 589
50: Thomas F. Torrance......Page 600
51: Arthur Peacocke......Page 611
52: Ian G. Barbour......Page 622
53: Wolfhart Pannenberg......Page 633
54: John Polkinghorne......Page 644
Index......Page 654