{"product_id":"envisioning-nature-science-and-religion-9781599473147","title":"Envisioning Nature, Science, and Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contemporary scholarship has given rise to several modes of understanding biophysical and human nature, each entangled with related notions of science and religion. \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Nature, Science, and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e represents the culmination of three years of collaboration by an international group of fourteen natural scientists, social scientists, humanists, and theologians. The result is an intellectually stimulating volume that explores how the ideas of nature pertain to science and religion. \u003c\/p\u003e Editor James D. Proctor has gathered sixteen in-depth essays, each examining and comparing five central metaphors or \"visions\" of biophysical and human nature. These visions are evolutionary nature, emergent nature, malleable nature, nature as sacred, and nature as culture. The book's diverse contributors offer a wide variety of unique perspectives on these five visions, spanning the intellectual spectrum and proposing important and often startling implications for religion and science alike. Throughout the essays, the authors do a great deal of cross-referencing and engaging each other's ideas, creating a cohesive dialogue on the visions of nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Nature, Science, and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a blend of scholarly rigor and readable prose that will be appreciated by anyone engaged in the fields of religion, philosophy, and the natural sciences. \u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \/ vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Visions of Nature, Science, and Religion \/ 3\u003cbr\u003e James D. Proctor\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Nature of Visions of Nature: Packages to Be Unpacked \/ 36\u003cbr\u003e Willem B. Drees\u003cbr\u003e 2. Visions of Nature through Mathematical Lenses \/ 59\u003cbr\u003e Douglas E. Norton\u003cbr\u003e 3. Between Apes and Angels: At the Borders of Human Nature \/ 83\u003cbr\u003e Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Locating New Visions \/ 103\u003cbr\u003e David N. Livingstone\u003cbr\u003e 5. Enduring Metaphysical Impatience? \/ 131\u003cbr\u003e Robert E. Ulanowicz\u003cbr\u003e 6. God from Nature: Evolution or Emergence? \/ 149\u003cbr\u003e Barbara J. King\u003cbr\u003e 7. Who Needs Emergence? \/ 166\u003cbr\u003e Gregory Peterson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Creativity through Emergence: A Vision of Nature and God \/ 180\u003cbr\u003e Antje Jackelén\u003cbr\u003e 9. Rereading a Landscape of Atonement on an Aegean Island \/ 205\u003cbr\u003e Martha L. Henderson\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Vision of Malleable Nature: A Complex Conversation \/ 227\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Lustig\u003cbr\u003e 11. Visions of a Source of Wonder \/ 245\u003cbr\u003e Fred D. Ledley\u003cbr\u003e 12. Nature as Culture: The Example of Animal \/ Behavior and Human Morality \/ 271\u003cbr\u003e Nicolaas A. Rupke\u003cbr\u003e 13. Environment after Nature: Time for a \/ New Vision \/ 293\u003cbr\u003e James D. Proctor\u003cbr\u003e 14. Should the Word Nature Be Eliminated? \/ 312\u003cbr\u003e John Hedley Brooke\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Visualizing Visions and Visioners \/ 337\u003cbr\u003e James D. Proctor\u003cbr\u003e Contributors \/ 353\u003cbr\u003e Index \/ 357","brand":"Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041582547287,"sku":"9781599473147","price":49.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781599473147.jpg?v=1750950880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/envisioning-nature-science-and-religion-9781599473147","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}