Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Modern science teaches us that anything can be explained in terms of atoms and forces, including the inner workings of the brain. But certain personal experiences can challenge the idea that there's nothing beyond inert matter. Communing with nature, working through a complex problem, or experiencing a piece of art, we sometimes feel a powerful sense of transcendence, of connecting with a cosmic unity that may seem unexplainable by science. But according...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 189
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Debates about science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious values and medical recommendations, or questions about how to address our changing global environment, emotions often run high and answers seem intractable. Yet there is much more to science and religion than the clash of extremes. As Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro show in this balanced and thought-provoking...
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An up to date and authoritative survey of the entire history of the relationship between science and Christianity. Essays by Christian scientists explore the history of science-faith advances and theological perspectives. The book begins with a review of the scientific method and the nature of religious belief. Subsequent chapters deal with each major scientific discipline and its engagement with Christianity.
Author
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it. As the follow-up to Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?, this lively volume...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration. Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, humans have dreamed of knowing the reason for the existence of the universe. In The Mind of God, physicist Paul Davies explores whether modern science can provide the key that will unlock this last secret. In his quest for an ultimate explanation, Davies reexamines the great questions that have preoccupied humankind for millennia, and in the process explores, among other topics, the origin and evolution of the cosmos, the nature...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A 'flip, ' writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, is 'a reversal of perspective, ' 'a new real, ' often born of an extreme, life-changing experience. The flip is Jeffrey J. Kripal's ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars. Combining accounts of rationalists' spiritual awakenings and consciousness explorations by philosophers, neuroscientists,...
16) It devours!
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town's top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A volume based on the author's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology" presents an exploration of the relationship between religion and science as well as Sagan's personal effort to understand the nature of the sacred in the cosmos.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Before the early twentieth century, scientists and theologians knew almost nothing about time's enormity and the corresponding immensity of space. But now, after Einstein, cosmology offers theology a whole new way of looking at the ageless questions about matter, time, God, cosmic purpose, and the significance of our lives. The universe need not be thought of as simply an endless reshuffling of lifeless and mindless atoms in a pointless series of...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request