Bridging Science and Religion

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Ted Peters, Gaymon Bennett
Fortress Press - 260 Seiten
This extraordinary volume models a fruitful interaction between the profound discoveries of the natural sciences and the venerable and living wisdoms of the world's major religions. Bridging Science and Religion brings together distin-guished contributors to the sciences, comparative philosophy, and religious studies to address the most important current questions in the field. Sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley, it is an ideal starting point for novices, yet has much to offer academics, professionals, and students. Part 1 establishes a working methodology for bridge-building between scientific and religious approaches to reality. Part 2 lays down the challenge to current theological and ethical positions from genetics, neuroscience, natural law, and evolutionary biology. Part 3 offers a religious response to modern science from scholars working out of Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Orthodox, Latin American Catholic, and Chinese contexts. Showcasing attitudes toward science from outside the West and an inclusive and comparative perspective, Bridging Science and Religion brings a new and timely dimension to this burgeoning field.

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Introduction
1
Science and Theology Mutual Interaction
19
Bridging Theology and Science in a Postmodern Age
35
Natural Law and Divine Action
49
Biological Evolution in Science and Theology
69
Genetics Theology and Ethics
80
Neuroscience the Human Person and God
107
Gods Two Books Special Revelation and Natural Science in the Christian West
123
Buddhism and the Sciences Historical Background Contemporary Developments
153
The Nature of Being Human
173
Traditional Hinduism and Modern Science
185
Cosmology Evolution and Biotechnology
196
Science and Ethics in Judaism Discernment and Discourse
213
Notes
220
Authors Bibliographies and Further Reading
234
Index
250

Traditional Islam and Modern Science
141

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Seite 13 - The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges.
Seite 98 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Seite 101 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Seite 105 - You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God; laying before us two books or volumes to study, if we will be secured from error ; first, the Scriptures, revealing the will of God ; and then the creatures, expressing his power...
Seite 100 - For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Seite 202 - Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans.
Seite 63 - For God, the Lord of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ministry of safeguarding life — a ministry which must be fulfilled in a manner which is worthy of man. Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care, while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.
Seite 217 - RELIGION AND SCIENCE. A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation of Natural and Revealed Religion, or the Truths revealed in Nature and Scripture. By JOSEPH LE CONTE, LL.
Seite 14 - But the total field is so underdetermined by its boundary conditions, experience, that there is much latitude of choice as to what statements to reevaluate in the light of any single contrary experience. No particular experiences are linked with any particular statements in the interior of the field, except indirectly through considerations of equilibrium affecting the field as a whole.
Seite 73 - Commission concludes that at this time it is morally unacceptable for anyone in the public or private sector, whether in a research or clinical setting, to attempt to create a child using somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning.

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