New Directions in Theology and Science

ISBN-13: 9781032146447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str.

Opis

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

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Spis treści

Introduction PART ONE: theology and the sciences 1. More history, more theology, more philosophy, more science: the state of theological engagement with science 2. Theology and science in the field 3. Religion and the science of climate destabilisation: the case for (re)entanglement 4. The inflation of nature and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis PART TWO: ‘science’ and ‘religion’ in the public sphere 5. Pop science and pop theology: new ways of exploring an old dialogue David Wilkinson 6. An unfortunate communicatio idiomatum: on the curious spectacle of two modern inventions morphing into one another in the public square 7. Is science the theology of modernity? PART THREE: theologies of science 8. Why do scientific research in the 21^st century? 9. After an apologetics of conflict: biblical exegesis for a creation theology of science 10. Creation as deconstruction in Cusanus, Luther, and Hamann AFTERWORD: The bigger picture: science, religion, and historical change 11. Divine pedagogy – speculations about ‘science’ and ‘religion’ after the next great breakthrough

O autorze

Peter Harrison is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, University of Queensland. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow who has published extensively in the field of intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the early modern period. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Science. His six books include The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2015), based on his 2011 Gifford Lectures and winner of the Aldersgate Prize.

Paul Tyson is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His scholarship works across the sociology of knowledge and philosophical theology with a particular interest in applied theological metaphysics and applied theological epistemology in a contemporary Christian NeoPlatonist register. His books include: Returning to Reality (Cascade, 2014); Seven Brief Lessons on Magic (Cascade, 2019); Theology and Climate Change (Routledge, 2021).