Science and Faith: Understanding Meaning, Method, and Truth

by Chalker, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780664227531
• ISBN10: 0664227538
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-03
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

In this introduction to religion and science, William Chalker outlines the nature of knowledge involved in claims about science and about religion and deliniates a compatible relationship between these two fields of understanding. According to Chalker, both science and theology have their proper realms, and while they are different in several crucial respects, they are not incompatible.

Author Biography

William H. Chalker is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Albertson College of Idaho

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1 The Thesis
Chapter 1 The Primacy of Experience and the Two Rubrics	3	(12)
Chapter 2 Justification for Choosing the Two Rubrics	15	(20)
Part 2 Meaning, Method, and Truth in Science: The Rubric of Utility and the Putative World of Science
Chapter 3 Introduction to Part 2: Answer to Critics of Science Who Demand Disinterestedness	35	(8)
Chapter 4 Two Views of the Nature of Knowledge of the World	43	(28)
Chapter 5 Testing Our Thesis by the Procedures and Techniques of Science	71	(20)
The Tasks	71	(3)
Critiquing the Naive View of the Scientific Method	74	(3)
Logic, Warm and Humane	77	(14)
Chapter 6 Making Laws Fit the Facts; Making Facts Fit the Laws	91	(18)
Part 3 Meaning, Method, and Truth in Biblical Theology: The Rubric of Ultimate Purpose and the Putative World of Theology
Chapter 7 Introduction to Part 3: Explication of the Thesis	109	(20)
Chapter 8 Testing Our Thesis: From Creation to the Ten Commandments	129	(28)
Chapter 9 Testing Our Thesis: From the Promised Land to the Suffering Servant	157	(22)
Part 4 Creation, Miracle, and Canon in Science and in Theology
Chapter 10 Principles of Understanding Applied to Three Vexing Topics	179	(32)
Indexes	211