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Science and Religion

Perspectives Across Disciplines

Edited by Claudia May and Channon Visscher - Contributions by John Hedley Brooke; Sherryse L. Corrow; Victor I. Ezigbo; Omar Fakhri; Barrett Fisher II; Juan Hernández, Jr.; Julie Hogan; Michael Holmes; Bernon Lee; Nathan Lindquist; Claudia May; Alister E. McGrath; Wayne L. Roosa; Angela M. Sabates; Marcus Simmons; Channon Visscher and Cara M. Wall-Scheffler

Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is both synergistic and disruptive. Building on this premise, the Advent and Easter stories are examined through praxes from STEM, theology, and psychology. Taken together, this anthology allows for connection between disciplines by creating community in the midst of differing approaches to the study of science and religion.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 348 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66692-474-9 • Hardback • October 2023 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-66692-475-6 • eBook • October 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Religion / Religion & Science, Religion / Psychology of Religion, Religion / Theology

Claudia May is program director and professor of reconciliation studies, and the executive director of the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) at Bethel University.

Channon Visscher is professor of chemistry and planetary sciences at Dordt University and a research scientist with the Space Science Institute.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Pervading Intricacy of the World’s Detail: Science and Religion Across Diverse Perspectives, Claudia May and Channon Visscher

Chapter One: Bridging the Disciplines: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge, Alister E. McGrath

Chapter Two: The Beginnings of Science in the Western World, John Hedley Brooke

Chapter Three: On Leibniz’s Objection against Substantivalism, Omar Fakhri

Chapter Four: Science as Storytelling: Making the Moon, Channon Visscher

Chapter Five: Heaven and Earth in Earnest: Annie Dillard’s Natural Theology, Barrett Fisher

Chapter Six: Finite Ear, Infinite God: The Living Art and Science Heard in God’s Creation, Marcus Simmons

Chapter Seven: Art, Imago, and Human Dignity, Wayne L. Roosa

Chapter Eight: The Science of Propriety in Florence Nightingale’s Bible, Bernon Lee

Chapter Nine: Inference to the Best Explanation: Potential Gateways to the Relationship Between Science and Religion and Multidisciplinary Interpretations of Biblical Stories, Claudia May

Chapter Ten: Advent and Easter in the Gospel Narratives, Mike Holmes

Chapter Eleven: The Face of Christmas, Sherryse L. Corrow

Chapter Twelve: Eternal Evolution in the New Creation: A Proposal, Cara M. Wall-Scheffler

Chapter Thirteen: Paradoxical Presence: God with us In Time and Space, Julie Hogan

Chapter Fourteen: Do We Need a Nano-Theology? Christian Engagement at the Cutting Edge, Nathan Lindquist

Chapter Fifteen: Psychological Views of the Resurrection: The Integral Role of Paradox, Angela

M. Sabates

Chapter Sixteen: Easter as Divine Summons: A Theological Reflection, Victor I. Ezigbo

Chapter Seventeen:Faith, Fundamentalism, and the Guild: The Challenge of Our Discrepant

Gospels, Juan Hernández Jr.

Conclusion: Science and Religion: Furthering Multidisciplinary Entanglements, Claudia May

About the Contributors

This tour de force of an edited volume brings together the best experts from across the disciplines to understand the science and faith interface. It is innovative, readable, and even practical. Editors May and Visscher alongside their chapter authors reveal the importance of ontological unity and epistemological plurality for bridging the disciplinary divide towards the deepest understanding of the science and faith interface.


— Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University


‘This is an engaging and timely book from both well-established scholars in science and religion and from new and impressive voices as well. It highlights the diversity of approaches required to address some of the most pressing issues facing us today and that drawing on many different disciplines across the sciences and humanities is needed to unify our increasingly fragmented world.’


— Michael Burdett, University of Nottingham


Insisting on the importance of building intellectual communities across the dividing lines that so often separate scholars from one another, Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines admirably performs the disciplinary diversity and epistemological pluralism for which its editors and contributors call. The resulting eclectic collection of essays promises to feed both the academic study of science and religion, and the human imagination, in vitally important ways.


— Pete Jordan, Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO)


Science and Religion

Perspectives Across Disciplines

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
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  • Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is both synergistic and disruptive. Building on this premise, the Advent and Easter stories are examined through praxes from STEM, theology, and psychology. Taken together, this anthology allows for connection between disciplines by creating community in the midst of differing approaches to the study of science and religion.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 348 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-66692-474-9 • Hardback • October 2023 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
    978-1-66692-475-6 • eBook • October 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Religion & Science, Religion / Psychology of Religion, Religion / Theology
Author
Author
  • Claudia May is program director and professor of reconciliation studies, and the executive director of the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) at Bethel University.

    Channon Visscher is professor of chemistry and planetary sciences at Dordt University and a research scientist with the Space Science Institute.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments

    Introduction: The Pervading Intricacy of the World’s Detail: Science and Religion Across Diverse Perspectives, Claudia May and Channon Visscher

    Chapter One: Bridging the Disciplines: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge, Alister E. McGrath

    Chapter Two: The Beginnings of Science in the Western World, John Hedley Brooke

    Chapter Three: On Leibniz’s Objection against Substantivalism, Omar Fakhri

    Chapter Four: Science as Storytelling: Making the Moon, Channon Visscher

    Chapter Five: Heaven and Earth in Earnest: Annie Dillard’s Natural Theology, Barrett Fisher

    Chapter Six: Finite Ear, Infinite God: The Living Art and Science Heard in God’s Creation, Marcus Simmons

    Chapter Seven: Art, Imago, and Human Dignity, Wayne L. Roosa

    Chapter Eight: The Science of Propriety in Florence Nightingale’s Bible, Bernon Lee

    Chapter Nine: Inference to the Best Explanation: Potential Gateways to the Relationship Between Science and Religion and Multidisciplinary Interpretations of Biblical Stories, Claudia May

    Chapter Ten: Advent and Easter in the Gospel Narratives, Mike Holmes

    Chapter Eleven: The Face of Christmas, Sherryse L. Corrow

    Chapter Twelve: Eternal Evolution in the New Creation: A Proposal, Cara M. Wall-Scheffler

    Chapter Thirteen: Paradoxical Presence: God with us In Time and Space, Julie Hogan

    Chapter Fourteen: Do We Need a Nano-Theology? Christian Engagement at the Cutting Edge, Nathan Lindquist

    Chapter Fifteen: Psychological Views of the Resurrection: The Integral Role of Paradox, Angela

    M. Sabates

    Chapter Sixteen: Easter as Divine Summons: A Theological Reflection, Victor I. Ezigbo

    Chapter Seventeen:Faith, Fundamentalism, and the Guild: The Challenge of Our Discrepant

    Gospels, Juan Hernández Jr.

    Conclusion: Science and Religion: Furthering Multidisciplinary Entanglements, Claudia May

    About the Contributors

Reviews
Reviews
  • This tour de force of an edited volume brings together the best experts from across the disciplines to understand the science and faith interface. It is innovative, readable, and even practical. Editors May and Visscher alongside their chapter authors reveal the importance of ontological unity and epistemological plurality for bridging the disciplinary divide towards the deepest understanding of the science and faith interface.


    — Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University


    ‘This is an engaging and timely book from both well-established scholars in science and religion and from new and impressive voices as well. It highlights the diversity of approaches required to address some of the most pressing issues facing us today and that drawing on many different disciplines across the sciences and humanities is needed to unify our increasingly fragmented world.’


    — Michael Burdett, University of Nottingham


    Insisting on the importance of building intellectual communities across the dividing lines that so often separate scholars from one another, Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines admirably performs the disciplinary diversity and epistemological pluralism for which its editors and contributors call. The resulting eclectic collection of essays promises to feed both the academic study of science and religion, and the human imagination, in vitally important ways.


    — Pete Jordan, Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO)


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