Religion and science

Religion and Science is a contemporary discussion of the many issues surrounding our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our understanding of God and religious truth and experience in our scientific age. This is a significantly expanded and revised version of Religion in an Age of Science, winner of the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence and the Templeton Book Award. Ian G. Barbour has added three historical chapters on physics and metaphysics in the seventeenth century, nature and God in the eighteenth century, and biology and theology in the nineteenth century. He has also added new sections on developments in nature-centered spirituality, information theory, and chaos and complexity theories.

First sentence: The seventeenth century was a period of such crucial and rapid change in outlook that we may justifiably speak of it as marking the birth of modern science

Year

1997

Publisher

SCM Press

Editions

3

Pages

384

ISBN

9780334027218

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