Science & religion : a critical survey / Holmes Rolston III.

By: Rolston, Holmes, 1932-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : Templeton Foundation Press, 2006. Edition: Templeton Foundation Press edDescription: xlv, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 1599470993 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781599470993 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: Science and religionSubject(s): Religion and science | Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 501 LOC classification: Q175 | .R545 2006Online resources: Table of contents only Notre Dame Online Access
Contents:
Methods in scientific and religious inquiry. Theories, creeds, and experience ; Models, patterns, paradigms ; Objectivity and involvement ; Scientific and religious logic -- Matter: religion and the physical sciences. Newtonian mechanism ; Quantum mechanics and indeterminacy ; Relativity and matter-energy ; Microphysical and astrophysical nature -- Life: religion and the biological sciences. Biochemistry and the secret of life ; Evolution and the secret of life ; The cybernetics of life ; The life struggle -- Mind: religion and the psychological sciences. The possibility of a human science ; Religion and Freudian psychoanalysis ; Religion and behavioral science ; Religion and humanistic psychologies -- Culture: religion and the social sciences. Society and the individual: models, laws, causes ; Interpretive social science ; Religion as a social projection ; Values in social science -- Nature and history. Nature after science ; Hard naturalism ; Soft naturalism ; Eastern perspectives ; The dimension of history ; Suffering -- Nature, history, and God. Nature and supernature ; Scientific-existentialist theism ; Process theism ; Transscientific theism ; Insight in science and religion: doing the truth.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library
Main Collection (Lower Floor) 		501 R659s 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000953726

Originally published: 1987. With new intro. by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Methods in scientific and religious inquiry. Theories, creeds, and experience ; Models, patterns, paradigms ; Objectivity and involvement ; Scientific and religious logic -- Matter: religion and the physical sciences. Newtonian mechanism ; Quantum mechanics and indeterminacy ; Relativity and matter-energy ; Microphysical and astrophysical nature -- Life: religion and the biological sciences. Biochemistry and the secret of life ; Evolution and the secret of life ; The cybernetics of life ; The life struggle -- Mind: religion and the psychological sciences. The possibility of a human science ; Religion and Freudian psychoanalysis ; Religion and behavioral science ; Religion and humanistic psychologies -- Culture: religion and the social sciences. Society and the individual: models, laws, causes ; Interpretive social science ; Religion as a social projection ; Values in social science -- Nature and history. Nature after science ; Hard naturalism ; Soft naturalism ; Eastern perspectives ; The dimension of history ; Suffering -- Nature, history, and God. Nature and supernature ; Scientific-existentialist theism ; Process theism ; Transscientific theism ; Insight in science and religion: doing the truth.

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