Activist Christians, the Human Rights Movement, and Democratization in Latin America
Nick Rowell
This chapter is a critical literature review of recent social science research describing and analyzing the participation of Christian churches in various phases of the human rights ...
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Anglo‐American Post‐modernity and the End of Theology— Science Dialogue?
Nancey Murphy
This article describes emerging patterns in Anglo-American philosophy that represent radical breaks from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity, and spells out consequences of these ...
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Anthropology and Religion
Michael Lambek
Once people accept the historical emergence and spread of science as a unique discursive formation, it becomes nonsense to talk about the relationship between religion and science, or ...
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Atheism and Cognitive Science
Jonathan Lanman
The findings of the cognitive sciences enrich our understanding of atheism by providing a more nuanced and empirically grounded concept of ‘belief’ and by problematizing psychological ...
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Atheism and Darwinism
David P. Barash
Although evolution by natural selection does not necessarily disprove the existence of God (thus, it does not ‘prove’ the validity of atheism), it negates two of the more potent ...
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Atheism and Science
Peter Atkins
Science is the only path to understanding. It would be contaminated rather than enriched by any alliance with religion. Such should be the attitude of a scientifically alert atheist. This ...
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Atheism and the Physical Sciences
Victor J. Stenger
While belief in gods was almost universal in the ancient world, Thales of Miletus introduced the notion that observed phenomena could be explained in natural terms without invoking imagined ...
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Atheism and the Rise of Science
Taner Edis
Atheists, conservative theists, and religious liberals often read the history of science in ways that support their own position. Atheists expect continual mutual support between science ...
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Atheism, Health, and Well-Being
Karen Hwang
The last few years have seen a great deal of research on the association between religion, spirituality, and medical outcomes. This research has not been without controversy however, in ...
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Biotechnology and the Religion—Science Discussion
Ronald Cole‐Turner
While giving attention to the embryo question and indeed to the meaning of ‘playing God’, this article surveys more generally some religiously significant aspects of recent genetics and ...
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Buddhism and Science
B. Alan Wallace
While Buddhism is often referred to as a ‘non-theistic religion’, it has the potential to play a unique mediating role between theistic religions, with their emphasis on faith and divine ...
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Christianity and Science
John Polkinghorne
Christian theology has always resisted a Manichaean opposition between God and the world, believing that the universe is God's creation. All forms of rational inquiry into aspects of ...
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Cognitive Science
Armin W. Geertz
The cognitive revolution reinstated the mind as a central unit of empirical and theoretical analysis and inspired the cognitive science of religion (CSR), which attempted to explain ...
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Concluding Reflections: Dover Beach Revisited
Mary Midgley
Using a passage from Matthew Arnold's poetry which writes sadly of the receding Sea of Faith, this article holds that the loss of Christian metaphysics drained away all the normal meaning ...
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Contributions from Biology
Neil Messer
This chapter surveys biological research on selected topics in human sexuality and reproduction. It begins with a brief introduction to the approaches of evolutionary biology and ...
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Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics
Joseph A. Bracken, SJ
While Pierre Teilhard de Chardin may have been overly optimistic in his estimate of how soon the synthesis of religion and science might take place, his deep faith in the achievability of ...
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Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics
Ted Peters
This article identifies some areas of the new dialogue between science and theology that could definitely enhance the effectiveness of preaching and teaching, which includes counselling and ...
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Contributions from Spirituality: Simplicity— Complexity— Simplicity
Pauline M. Rudd
This article aims to demonstrate to non-specialists that science itself can provide a profound basis for meditation, using a series of short vignettes that address questions relevant to ...
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Contributions from Systematic Theology
Wolfhart Pannenberg
This article discusses important issues for a Christian doctrine of creation that is concerned with its relationship to natural science. The issues deal with the core presuppositions that ...
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Contributions from the History of Science and Religion
John Hedley Brooke
It is sometimes assumed that a simple story can be told about the historical relationship between science and religion. On one overview, ‘science’ and ‘religion’ existed in harmony for ...
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