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Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science
by Michael Horace Barnes. 334 pgs.

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In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highly critical self-awareness. In tracing the histories of both scientific and religious thought, Barnes shows why we think the way that we do today. Although religious and scientific modes of thought are often portrayed as contradictory-one is highly rational while the other appeals to tradition and faith-Barnes argues that they evolved together and are actually complementary. Using the developmental thought of Piaget, he argues that cultures develop like individuals in that both learn easier cognitive skills first and master the harder ones later. This is especially true, says Barnes, because the harder ones often require first the creation of cognitive technology like writing or formal logic as well as the creation of social institutions that teach and sustain those skills. Barnes goes on to delineate the successive stages of the co-evolution of religious and scientific thought in the West, from the preliterate cultures of antiquity up to the present time. Along the way, he covers topics such as the impact of literacy on human modes of thought; the development of formalized logic and philosophical reflections; the emergence of an explicitly rational science; the birth of formal theologies; and, more recently, the growth of modern empirical science. This groundbreaking book offers a thorough and persuasive argument in favor of the development of modes of thought across cultures. It will serve as an invaluable resource for historians of religion, philosophers and historians of science, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and science.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1: Culture and Cognition

2: Addressing the Critics

3: Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures

4: Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate

5: The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought

6: Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity

7: The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West

8: Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion

9: The Method of Modern Empirical Science

10: Religious Responses to Modern Science

Notes

Bibliography

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Science and Theology: The New Consonance
by Ted Peters. 256 pgs.

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How can we think about God's action in a quantum world of indeterminacy? in a world that began with a Big Bang? in a world in which life evolved & is continually evolving? in a world governed by entropy & heading toward its eventual heat death? Science & Theology: The New Consonance grapples with these seeming conundrums by asking both scientists & religious thinkers to reflect upon possible solutions. Chapter authors include Nobel Prize-winning physicist & inventor of the laser, Charles Townes, along with Pope John Paul II. The resulting interplay between science & theology presses toward consonance, encouraging comparisons, crossovers, & complementarity.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Science and Theology: Toward Consonance

Part One Physics and Faith

Chapter Two Logic and Uncertainties in Science and Religion

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter Three: From Physicist to Priest

Chapter Four: Is the Universe Absurd?

Chapter Five Does the "God Who Acts" Really Act in Nature?

Concluding Assessment

Notes

Chapter Six: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics

Part Two Evolution, Ethics, and Eschatology

Chapter Seven So Human an Animal: Evolution and Ethics

Notes

Chapter Eight Human Life: Creation Versus Evolution?

Chapter Nine Evolution and the Living God: Pope John Paul II

Chapter Ten Evolution and the Human Person: the Pope in Dialogue: George V. Coyne, S.J.

Chapter Eleven Biological Evolution and the Human Soul: a Theological Proposal for Generationism

Conclusion: Soul-Life and Worldly Mysticism

Notes

Chapter Twelve Biocultural Evolution and the Created Co-Creator

Conclusion: Science as Resource and Challenge to Theology

Notes

Chapter Thirteen a Map of Scientific Knowledge: Genetics, Evolution: and Theology

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Chapter Fourteen the Greening of Science, Theology, and Ethics

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter Fifteen Evolution, Tragedy, and Hope

Conclusion

Notes

About the Editor and Contributors

Credits

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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist
by Richard P. Feynman. 134 pgs.

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Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him -- how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now a wonderful book -- based on a previously unpublished, three-part public lecture he gave at the University of Washington in 1963 -- shows us this other side of Feynman, as he expounds on the inherent conflict between science and religion, on people's distrust of politicians, and on our universal fascination with flying saucers, faith healing, and mental telepathy.

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Publisher's Note

I the Uncertainty of Science

Ii the Uncertainty of Values

Iii This Unscientific Age

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About Richard Feynman
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Religious Experience and Scientific Method
by Henry Nelson Wieman. 392 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

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Part I: Why Religion Needs Science

Chapter I: Science and Our Knowledge of God

Chapter II: Science the Corrective of Religion

Chapter III: Thought and Worship

Chapter IV: Christianity and Love

Part II: Why Science Needs Religion

Chapter V: The Two Sides of Life

Chapter VI Scientific Method

Chapter VII Awareness and Scientific Discovery

Chapter VIII: Rebirth Versus Auto-Suggestion

Chapter IX: Christianity and Scientific Morality

Part III: The Nature and Function Of Religion

Chapter X: Religion and Ideals

Chapter XI: Christianity and Psychology

Chapter XII: Religion and Reflective Thinking

Chapter XIII: The Emergence of Religion

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Science, Religion and the Human Experience
by James D. Proctor. 336 pgs.

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Contributors

1: Introduction: Rethinking Science and Religion

2: "Thou Shall Not Freeze-Frame," Or, How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate

3: Modernity and the Mystical

4: The Depths and Shallows of Experience

5: In We Trust

6: Science, Religion, Metaphor, and History

7: Kabbalah and Contemporary Cosmology

8: The Complementarity of Science and Religion

9: Darwin, Design, and the Unification of Nature

10: Darwinism and Christianity

11: Experiencing Evolution

12: Gods and the Mental Instincts That Create Them

13: Empathy and Human Experience

14: Uneasy Alliances

15: The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion

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The Science-Religion Relation: Controversy, Convergence, and Search for Meaning, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
by Philip Hefner. 16 pgs.

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Science and Religion, an Interpretation of Two Communities
by Harold K. Schilling. 276 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

CREEDS, ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

Chapter I Problem and Thesis

Chapter II What Science and Religion Are: How to Distinguish Them

Chapter III What Science and Religion Are Not Stereotypes and Actualities

Chapter IV Science and Religion as Social and Communal Enterprises: They Are Intensely Human

Chapter V the Threefold and Circular Nature of Science and Religion: With Special Reference to Theory

Chapter VI the Permanent and Transient in Science and Religion: Truth and Certainty

Chapter VII Digression on Creeds in Religion and Science?

Chapter VIII the Meanings of Concepts in Science: Also About "Verification"

Chapter X Interrelations and Interactions Among Concepts and Cultural Influences

Chapter XI Interactions of Faiths and Myths: What of the Future?

Chapter XII Pluralism and Relativism: In Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

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Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective
by David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, Mark A. Noll. 351 pgs.

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Comprising papers by such distinguished scholars as John Headley Brooke, James R. Moore, Ronald Numbers, and George Marsden, this collection shows that questions of science have been central to evangelical history in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It is an invaluable resource for understanding the historical context of contemporary political squabbles such as the debate over the status of "creation science" and the teaching of evolution.

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Introduction: Placing Evangelical Encounters with Science

Notes

Part I: Overview

1: The History of Science and Religion: Some Evangelical Dimensions

Notes

Part II: Orientations

2: The Puritan Thesis Revisited

Notes

3: Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered

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Part III: Theological Engagements

4: Science, Theology, and Society: From Cotton Mather to William Jennings Bryan

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5: Science and Evangelical Theology in Britain from Wesley to Orr

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6: Science, Natural Theology, and Evangelicalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Thomas Chalmers and the Evidence Controversy

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Part IV: Specific Encounters

7: Scriptural Geology in America

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8: Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution

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9: Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Danvin Legend

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10: Creating Creationism: Meanings and Uses Since the Age of Agassiz

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11: A Sign for an Unbelieving Age: Evangelicals and the Search for Noah's Ark

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Part V: Wider Domains

12: "The Science of Duty": Moral Philosophy and the Epistemology of Science in Nineteenth-Century America

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13: Toward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930

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14: Evangelicals, Biblical Scholarship, and the Politics of the Modern American Academy

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Afterword

15: The Meaning of Science for Christians: A New Dialogue on Olympus

Notes

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Science and Christian Belief
by C. A. Coulson. 127 pgs.

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The Mcnair Lectures

Preface

Contents

Chapter One: The Challenge of Scientific Thinking

Chapter Two: Scientific Method

Chapter Three The Human Element

Chapter Four: Christian Belief

Notes and References

Index
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson. 328 pgs.

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----- PREFACE -----

INTRODUCTION

PART I: BEFORE . . .

Chapter One: DIGGING UP CONTROVERSY

----- Chapter Two -----: GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE

Chapter Three: IN DEFENSE OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

PART II: . . . DURING . . .

Chapter Four: CHOOSING SIDES

----- Chapter Five -----: JOCKEYING FOR POSITION

Chapter Six: PRELIMINARY ROUNDS

Chapter Seven: THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

PART III . . .: AND AFTER

Chapter Nine: RETELLING THE TALE

Chapter Ten: DISTANT ECHOES

NOTES

INDEX
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Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860
by Herbert Hovenkamp. 273 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introdudion

1: Orthodoxy and Empiricism

2: Knowing and Believing

3: Declaring the Glory of God

4: The Science of Religion

5: Nature and Supernature

6 ": Hewn and Measured Stones

7: A Theory of the Earth

8: The Chosen Land

9: The Unity of Man

10: Coming from Nowhere

Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes

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Science and Religion in Early America: Cotton Mather's Christian Philosopher, in Church History
by Winton U. Solberg. 20 pgs.

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Science and Religion in Elizabethan England
by Paul H. Kocher. 344 pgs.

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Preface

1: Elizabethan Science, Handmaid or Mistress?

2: Theory of Knowledge

3: Skepticism

4: The Limits of Science

5: Providence, Natural Causation, and Miracle

6: Satan Exiled

7: The Old Heaven and Earth

8: New Cosmos

9: Copernicanism and the Bible

10: Astrological Fate

II: Man the Composite

12: The Physician as Atheist

13: God in Medicine

14: Body and Soul

15: The Grace of God

16: Last View

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The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia
by Darrel W. Amundsen, Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, Anne-Marie E. Nakhla. 587 pgs.

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Spanning from 5th century Greece to today, this volume describes the relationship of science and religion throughout history. From ancient cosmology to modern physics, every major intellectual movement and discipline is covered.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: The Relationship of Science and Religion

1: The Historiography of Science and Religion

2: The Conflict of Science and Religion

Bibliography

3: The Demarcation of Science and Religion

4: Epistemology

5: Causation

6: Views of Nature

7: God, Nature, and Science

8: Varieties of Providentialism

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9: Natural Theology

10: The Design Argument

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11: Miracles

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12: Theodicy

13: Genesis and Science

14: Nineteenth-Century Biblical Criticism

Part II: Biographical Studies

15: Galileo Galilei

16: Blaise Pascal

17: Isaac Newton

18: Charles Darwin

Part III: Intellectual Foundations and Philosophical Backgrounds

19: Plato and Platonism

Bibliography

20: Aristotle and Aristotelianism

Bibliography

21: Atomism

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22: Epicureanism

23: Stoicism

24: Augustine of Hippo

25: Thomas Aquinas and Thomism

26: Skepticism

27: Cartesianism

28: Mechanical Philosophy

29: The Cambridge Platonists

30: Deism

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31: The Enlightenment

32: Baconianism

33: German Nature Philosophy

34: Materialism

35: Atheism

36: Positivism

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37: Pragmatism

38: Evolutionary Ethics

39: Scientific Naturalism

40: Secular Humanism

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41: Process Philosophy and Theology

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42: The Social Construction of Science

43: Gender

44: Postmodernism

Part IV: Specific Religious Traditions and Chronological Periods

45: Judaism to 1700

46: Early Christian Attitudes Toward Nature

47: Islam

48: Medieval Science and Religion

49: Orthodoxy

50: Roman Catholicism Since Trent

51: Early-Modern Protestantism

52: Judaism Since 1700

53: Modern American Mainline Protestantism

54: Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism

55: America's Innovative Nineteenth-Century Religions

56: Creationism Since 1859

Part V: Astronomy and Cosmology

57: The Calendar

58: Comets and Meteors

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59: Pre-Copernican Astronomy

60: The Copernican Revolution

61: The Eternity of the World

62: The Plurality of Worlds and Extraterrestrial Life

63: Macrocosm/Microcosm

64: Cosmogonies from 1700 to 1900

Bibliography

65: Geocentricity

66: Flat-Earthism

67: Twentieth-Century Cosmologies

68: The Anthropic Principle

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Part VI: The Physical Sciences

69: Physics

70: Chemistry

Bibliography

71: Electricity

72: Chaos Theory

Part VII: The Earth Sciences

73: Theories of the Earth and Its Age Before Darwin

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74: The Genesis Flood

75: Geology and Paleontology from 1700 to 1900

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76: Uniformitarianism and Actualism

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77: Geography

78: Earthquakes

79: Meteorology

80: Ecology and the Environment

Part VIII: The Biological Sciences

81: Natural History

Bibliography

82: The Great Chain of Being

83: Taxonomy

84: The Origin and Unity of the Human Race

85: Evolution

86: Anatomy and Physiology to 1700

87: Premodern Theories of Generation

88: Genetics

89: Eugenics

Part IX: Medicine and Psychology

90: Medicine

91: Epidemic Diseases

92: European Psychology

93: Psychology in America

94: Theories of Religious Insanity in America

95: Phrenology

96: Theories of the Soul

Part X: The Occult Sciences

97: Astrology

Bibliography

98: Magic and the Occult

Bibliography

99: Alchemy

Bibliography

100: Hermeticism

101: Numbers

102: The Cabala

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103: Spiritualism

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