The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

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

Auteur

J.B. Stump is Professor of Philosophy and directs the philosophy program at Bethel College (Indiana, USA). He is the philosophy editor of Christian Scholar's 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 dialogue 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 10 other books, including Science and the Study of God (2003).

Contenu
Acknowledgments ix

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction xviii
J. B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett

Part I Historical Episodes 1

1 Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor 3
Christopher B. Kaiser

2 The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair 14
Maurice A. Finocchiaro

3 Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period 26
Jacqueline Broad

4 Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century 37
Peter J. Bowler

5 Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science 48
Edward B. Davis

Part II Methodology 61

6 How to Relate Christian Faith and Science 63
Mikael Stenmark

7 Authority 74
Nicholas Rescher

8 Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology 82
Lisa L. Stenmark

9 Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural 93
Alan G. Padgett

10 The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism 103
Alvin Plantinga

Part III Natural Theology 117

11 Arguments to God from the Observable Universe 119
Richard Swinburne

12 God of the Gaps Arguments 130
Gregory E. Ganssle

13 Natural Theology after Modernism 140
J. B. Stump

14 Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology 151
Paul K. Moser

15 Problems for Christian Natural Theology 162
Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. Gale

Part IV Cosmology and Physics 173

16 Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology 175
Stephen M. Barr

17 Does the Universe Need God? 185
Sean Carroll

18 Does God Love the Multiverse? 198
Don N. Page

19 The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at its Implications 207
Robin Collins

20 Quantum Theory and Theology 220
Rodney D. Holder

Part V Evolution 231

21 Creation and Evolution 233
Denis R. Alexander

22 Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven? 246
Michael Ruse

23 Creation and Evolutionary Convergence 258
Simon Conway Morris

24 Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma 270
Stephen C. Meyer

25 Darwin and Intelligent Design 283
Francisco J. Ayala

26 Christianity and Human Evolution 295
John F. Haught

27 Christian Theism and Life on Earth 306
Paul Draper

Part VI The Human Sciences 317

28 Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity 319
Justin L. Barrett

29 The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine? 335
Dylan Evans

30 Sociology and Christianity 344
John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans

31 Economics and Christian Faith 356
Robin J. Klay

Part VII Christian Bioethics 369

32 Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level 371
James C. Peterson

33 An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research 381
John F. Kilner

34 The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology 393
Philippe Gagnon

35 Ecology and the Environment 406
Lisa H. Sideris

Part VIII Metaphysical Implications 419

36 Free Will and Rational Choice 421
E. J. Lowe 37 Science, Religion, and Infinity 430<br /&g...