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Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate
Contributor(s): Barnes, Michael Horace (Author)
ISBN: 1441118160     ISBN-13: 9781441118165
Publisher: Continuum
OUR PRICE:   $51.43  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Religion & Science
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Dewey: 213
LCCN: 2009035039
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" (1.2 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and biology on views about God and on the place of humankind in the universe. Many analyze current disputes about Intelligent Design. Some add useful material about notions the soul and inner freedom. A few offer thoughts about miracles. Others devote time to differences in methods in religion and science. Understanding Religion and Science covers all those topics well and clearly.

This textbook also reviews relevant historical and philosophical background, showing, for example, that some ancient Christians speculated on how God might give order to history without having to intervene, or that the very earliest Christians did not believe in a naturally immortal soul.
Finally, the text asks why people differ in their basic commitments, some giving priority to a religiously meaningful life, others willing to face even the most uncomfortable conclusions. The author suggests this may be a divide not easily bridged..

This book will appeal to students of Religion and of Science and Religion Studies.