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by Templeton Foundation Press, 2006
with a new introduction
ISBN 1-59947-099-3 (10 digit number)
ISBN 978-1-59947-099-3 (13 digit number, starting 2007)
First published, text edition, Random House, 1987
ISBN 0-394-36327-2
Hardcover, Temple University Press, 1987
ISBN 0-87722-437-4
Text edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1989
ISBN 0-07-554211-0
Republished 1997:
Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN 0-15-505797-9
"Human Uniqueness," new introduction 2006 edition.
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Chapter 1. Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry. Download/print in PDF format.
Chapter 7. Nature, History, and God. Download/print in PDF format.
"Scientific and Religious Logic" from Chapter 1 (pp.
22-31) reprinted in Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and
David Basinger, eds., Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. .
Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998
"Care on Earth: Generating Informed Concern," in Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen, eds., Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pages. 204-245. Download/print in PDF format.
"In the Zone of Complexity: Science and the Sacred," Parabola 30 (no. 1, 2005):46-53. Thirtieth anniversary issue. Download/print in PDF format.
"The Science and Religion Dialogue - Why it Matters,"
in Fraser Watts and Kevin Dutton, eds., Why the Science and Religion Dialogue
Matters: Voices from the International Society for Science and Religion
(Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006), pages 33-37. Address at Boston,
International Society for Science and Religion, 2004. Download/Print
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"Does Nature Need To Be Redeemed?" Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(1994):205-229. Article awarded John Templeton Foundation award for best scholarly papers in religion, 1994. Also in Horizons in Biblical Theology 14(no. 2, 1993):143-172. Download/print in PDF format.
Reprinted in Charles Taliaferro and Paul J. Griffiths, eds., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pages 530-543.
"Science and Christianity," in Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price, eds., New and Enlarged Handbook of Christian Theology (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003), pages 450-454. Earlier article in: The New Handbook of Christian Theology (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992), pages 430-432.
"Genes, Brains, Minds: The Human Complex," in Kelly
Bulkeley, ed., Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion
and Brain-Mind Science (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pages 10-35.
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"Religion in an Age of Science; Metaphysics in an Age of History," commissioned longer critical review of Ian Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science: The Gifford Lectures, vol. 1 (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990) in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 27(1992):65-87.
"Science, Religion, and the Future." Pages 61-82 in W. Mark Richardson and Wesley J. Wildman, eds., Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (London: Routledge, 1996).
"The Good Samaritan and his Genes." Pages 238-252 in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds., Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004). Download/Print in PDF format.
"Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology: An Overview." Pages 8473-8477 (vol. 12) in Lindsay Jones, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, Thomson/Gale, 2005). Download/Print in PDF format.
"Scientific Inquiry" (Secular Scientific Spirituality).
Pages 387-413 in Peter H. Van Ness, ed., Spirituality and the Secular Quest
(New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1996). Volume 22 of World Spirituality:
An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest.
"Disvalues in Nature." The Monist 75(1992):250-278.
Reprinted in Andrew Brennan, ed., The Ethics of the Environment (Aldershot,
Hampshire, UK: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1995), pages 87-115. Download/print
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"Naturalizing and Systematizing Evil." Pages 67-86 in
Willem B. Drees, ed., Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value
(London: Routledge, 2003). Download/print
in PDF format.
"Kenosis and Nature." Pages 43-65 in John Polkinghorne,
ed., The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co., and London: SPCK). Download/print
in PDF format.
"Can Science Dispense with Religion?" Pages 315-326 in Mehdi Golshani, ed., Can Science Dispense with Religion?, 3rd ed. (Tehran, Iran: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS), 2004).
"Inevitable Humans: Simon Conway Morris's Evolutionary Paleontology," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 40 (2005):221-229. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Science." Pages 1494-1497 (Volume 2) in Bron R. Taylor, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, 2005.
"Aesthetics of Nature and the Sacred." Pages 18-21 (Volume 1) in Bron R. Taylor, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, 2005.
"Planetary Spiritual (In)formation." Pages 330-336 in Charles L. Harper, Jr., ed., Spiritual Information. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Science and Religion in the Face of the Environmental Crisis." Pages 376-397 in Roger S. Gottlieb, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Download/Print in PDF format.
"Environmental Ethics: Some Challenges for Christians." In Harlan Beckley, ed., The Annual: Society of Christian Ethics (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1993), pages 163-186. Reprinted in Church and Society, July/August 1996, pages 37-50. Reprinted in The Egg: An Eco-Justice Quarterly (Environmental Justice Working Group of the National Council of Churches) vol. 13, no. 3 (summer 1993):6-10, 18. Keynote address at the Society of Christian Ethics, Annual National Conference, Savannah, GA, January 8-10, 1993. Download/print in PDF format.
"Dominion," entry in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Volume 1, The Spirit of Sustainability, ed. Willis Jenkins (Great Barrington, Mass: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2010), pp.110-111. Download/print in PDF format.
"Science, Religion, and Ecology," entry in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Volume 1, The Spirit of Sustainability, ed. Willis Jenkins. Great Barrington, Mass: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2010), pp. 353-356. Download/print in PDF format.
"The Bible and Ecology," Interpretation: Journal of Bible and Theology 50(1996):16-26. Download/print in PDF format. Also translated into Japanese.
Translated into Chinese in Huan-Jing Luun-Li-Shei Ru-Men (Introduction to Environmental Ethics), ed. Tsu-Mei Chen (Taipei: Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, 2007), pages 208-213. ISBN 978-986-84047-0-0. Download/print in PDF format.
"Preaching on the Environment," JP Journal for Preachers 23 (no. 4, 2000):25-32. Download/print in PDF format.
Translated into Chinese, "Huan-Ching Chiang-Chang," in Huan-Jing Luun-Li-Shei Ru-Men (Introduction to Environmental Ethics), ed. Tsu-Mei Chen (Taipei: Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, 2007), pages 246-261. ISBN 978-986-84047-0-0. Download/print in PDF format.
"Wildlife and Wildlands: A Christian Perspective." Pages 122-143 in Dieter T. Hessel, ed., After Nature's Revolt: Eco-Justice and Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1992. Download/print in PDF format.
Reprinted in part as "Christians, Wildlife, Wildlands," in Earth Letter, January 2001, pp. 4-6. (Earth Ministry, 1305 NE 47th St., Seattle, WA 98105).
Translated into Chinese in Dieter T. Hessel, ed., Shengtai
gongyi: Dui dadi fanpuide xinyang fanxing (Taiwan: Diqiuri Chubanshe, 1997),
pp. 233-265. Translated by Text Committee of the Taiwan Ecological Theology
Center. ISBN 0-8006-2532-3. Download/print
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"Creation: God and Endangered Species." In Ke Chung Kim and
Robert D. Weaver, eds., Biodiversity and Landscape (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994), pages 47-60. Also published in Lawrence
S. Hamilton, ed., Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity (Cambridge, England:
The White Horse Press, 1993), pages 40-64. Download/Print
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Electronically reprinted on website, Ecospherics International, Inc., Lanark, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecospherics.net. Ted Mosquin, editor.
"Caring for Nature: From Fact to Value, from Respect to Reverence," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39(no. 2, 2004):277-302. Invited Templeton Lecture, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 23, 2003. Download/Print in PDF format. Lecture at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, March 9, 2005. Online with lecture and discussion (broadband connection).
Translated into Chinese, "Kan-Kuo Tsu-Jan: Tsung Shih-Shih tao Chia-Chih, Tsung Tsun-Ching tao Tsun-Tsung," in Huan-Jing Luun-Li-Shei Ru-Men (Introduction to Environmental Ethics), ed. Tsu-Mei Chen (Taipei: Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, 2007), pages 214-244. ISBN 978-986-84047-0-0. Download/Print in PDF format.
Abridged and revised in: "Caring for Nature: From Respect to Reverence," Discerning a Moral Environmental Ethic, The Maryville Symposium: Conversations on Faith and the Liberal Arts (Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee), volume 2, 2008, pages 5-25.
"Caring for Nature: What Science and Economics Can't Teach Us but Religion Can," Environmental Values 15(2006):307-313. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Celestial Aesthetics: Over Our Heads and/or in Our Heads," Theology and Science 9(2011):273-285. Address at the 7th International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics, University of Joensuu, at the Valamo Monastery, Heinävesi, Finland, March 2009. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions." Pages 197-225 in F. LeRon Shultz, ed., The Evolution of Rationality. (Grand Rapids: MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006). Download/Print in PDF format.
"Science and Technology in Light of Religion." Pages 33-38 in Heidi A. Campbell and Heather Looy, eds., A Science and Religion Primer. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009). Download/Print in PDF Format.
"Creation and Resurrection." JP Journal for Preachers 32(no. 3, 2009):25-32. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Preaching on the Wonder of Creation." JP Journal for Preachers 34(no. 4, 2011):39-46. Download/Print in PDF format.
"The Bond between Nature, Faith." Times Union, Albany, New York. Saturday, April 4, 2009, p. B3. Download/Print in PDF format.
"Saving Creation: Faith Shaping Environmental Policy." Harvard Law and Policy Review 4(2010):121-148. Download/Print in PDF Format.
"Suffering through to Something Higher." Pages 248-258 in James W. Haag, Gregory R. Peterson, and Michael L. Spezio, eds., The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science (London: Routledge, 2012).
Review of Alister McGrath, The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008). In Conversations in Religion and Theology 7(no. 2, 2009):194-200, and McGrath response, "On Secrets, Lilies, and Daisies," pp. 200-206. Download/Print Rolston review in PDF format.
Review of Martin A. Nowak, SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. New York: Free Press, 2011). Download/Print Rolston review in PDF format.
Anthology
Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1995. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., purchased rights, 1997). Edited anthology from Conference on Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life, held at Colorado State University, September 1991. Contributors: Thomas R. Cech, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Niles Eldredge, Michael Ruse, Francisco J. Ayala, Langdon Gilkey, Charles Birch.
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"Responsible Man in Reformed Theology" Scottish Journal of Theology 23(1970):129-156. Download/Print in PDF format.