The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

by Stump, J. B.; Padgett, Alan G.

• ISBN13: 9781444335712
• ISBN10: 1444335715
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

J. B. Stump is Professor of Philosophy and directs the philosophy program at Bethel College (Indiana, USA). He is the philosophy editor of Christian Scholars 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 dialog 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 ten other books, including Science and the Study of God (2003).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. xviii
Historical Episodes	p. 1
Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor	p. 3
The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair	p. 14
Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period	p. 26
Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 37
Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science	p. 48
Methodology	p. 61
How to Relate Christian Faith and Science	p. 63
Authority	p. 74
Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology	p. 82
Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural	p. 93
The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism	p. 103
Natural Theology	p. 117
Arguments to God from the Observable Universe	p. 119
"God of the Gaps" Arguments	p. 130
Natural Theology after Modernism	p. 140
Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology	p. 151
Problems for Christian Natural Theology	p. 162
Cosmology and Physics	p. 173
Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology	p. 175
Does the Universe Need God?	p. 185
Does God Love the Multiverse?	p. 198
The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at Its Implications	p. 207
Quantum Theory and Theology	p. 220
Evolution	p. 231
Creation and Evolution	p. 233
Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?	p. 246
Creation and Evolutionary Convergence	p. 258
Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma	p. 270
Darwin and Intelligent Design	p. 283
Christianity and Human Evolution	p. 295
Christian Theism and Life on Earth	p. 306
The Human Sciences	p. 317
Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity	p. 319
The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine?	p. 335
Sociology and Christianity	p. 344
Economics and Christian Faith	p. 356
Christian Bioethics	p. 369
Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level	p. 371
An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research	p. 381
The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology	p. 393
Ecology and the Environment	p. 406
Metaphysical Implications	p. 419
Free Will and Rational Choice	p. 421
Science, Religion, and Infinity	p. 430
God and Abstract Objects	p. 441
Laws of Nature	p. 453
The Mind	p. 465
Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism	p. 467
The Emergence of Persons	p. 480
Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis	p. 491
In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei	p. 500
How Science Lost Its Soul, and Religion Handed It Back	p. 510
Theology	p. 521
The Trinity and Scientific Reality	p. 523
God and Miracle in an Age of Science	p. 533
Eschatology in Science and Theology	p. 543
The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology	p. 554
Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity	p. 565
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	p. 567
Thomas F. Torrance	p. 578
Arthur Peacocke	p. 589
Ian G. Barbour	p. 600
Wolfhart Pannenberg	p. 611
John Polkinghorne	p. 622
Index	p. 632
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