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Book SynopsisJohn P. Slattery is Senior Program Associate with the Dialogue on the Science, Ethics, and Religion Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC, USA
Trade ReviewFor theologians and educators who seek examples of what one might call “socially aware theology and science,” this volume will be a valuable resource. * Reading Religion *
[T]he volume satisfies a double aim, that of providing a
status quaestionis and clarifying the historical-philosophical roots of the issues dealt with. * DISF: Interdisciplinary Documentation Portal of Science and Religion *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
, John P. Slattery (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA) I. Historical Explorations 1. The Genesis Creation Accounts
, J. Richard Middleton (Northeastern Seminary, USA) 2. Wisdom’s Wonder and the Science of Awe
, William Brown (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA) 3. Aristotle’s Sciences: Inquiring into Nature and the Divine
, Anne Siebels Peterson (University of Utah, USA) 4. Augustine and Science
, John C. Cavadini (University of Notre Dame, USA) 5. Basil and the Greek Fathers on Creation in the Hexaemeron
, Andrew Louth (University of Durham, UK) 6. Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene’s Cosmology
, Doru Costache (St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological College, Australia) 7. Hildegard of Bingen
, Debra Stoudt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) 8. Thomas Aquinas
, Michael J. Dodds, O.P. (Graduate Theological Union, USA) 9. John Calvin and Modern Science
, Brian Edgar (Asbury Theological Seminary, USA) 10. George Washington Williams, Frederick Douglass, and Maria Stewart: Race, Science, and Moral Resistance in African American Political Thought
, Terrence Johnson (Georgetown University, USA) 11. Neo-Scholasticism and Anti-Evolutionary Catholicism: A Brief History
, John P. Slattery (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA) II. Transitioning from the 20th to the 21st Century 12. 20th and 21st Century Catholic Voices on Nature and Science,
Paul Schutz (Santa Clara University, USA) 13. 20th and 21st Century Orthodox Voices on Nature and Science
, Elizabeth Theokritoff (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK) and Christopher C. Knight (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK) 14. 20th and 21st Century Protestant Voices on Nature and Science
, Sarah Lane Ritchie (University of Edinburgh, UK) III. Explorations in Christian Theology Today 15. The Encounter of Theology with Physics: An Eastern Christian Perspective,
Stoyan Tanev (Carleton University, Canada) 16. The Human as World-Maker: An Anthropocene Dogma,
Lisa Sideris (Indiana University, USA) 17. Theology and the Biological Sciences,
Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford, UK) 18. Medical Innovation, Conventional Theology,
Terri Laws (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) 19. Theology and the Psychological Sciences,
Jessica Coblentz (Saint Mary’s College, USA) 20. Theology and the Social Sciences: A Contemporary Overview,
Timothy K. Snyder (Wesley Theological Seminary, USA) 21. Black Noise and the Sorrow Songs: A Reflection on the Negro Spirituals and the Involuntary Modernization of Black Music,
Rufus Burnett (Fordham University, USA) 22. Liturgy as Ethicizer: Cultivating Ecological Consciousness through a Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Ethos,
Stephen Meawad (Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, USA) 23. A Case Study for Lived Religion-and-Science: Theology of Urban Ecology,
Lea F. Schweitz (Independent Scholar, USA) 24. Environmental Sciences and Christian Theology,
Paul Schutz (Santa Clara University, USA)
