Science and Religion: A Critical Survey

 

Republished 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)
www.templetonpress.org

 


Republished 1997:
Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ISBN 0-15-505797-9


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

"Human Uniqueness," new introduction 2006 edition. Download/print in PDF format, 2.0 mb.

Chapter 1. Methods in Scientific and Religious Inquiry. Download/print in PDF format, 1.8 mb.

Chapter 7. Nature, History, and God. Download/print in PDF format, 2.9 mb.

"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.





Selected Publications in Science and Religion


Genes, Genesis and God. Cambridge University Press, 1999. See link, previous page.

 

"In the Zone of Complexity: Science and the Sacred," Parabola 30 (no. 1, 2005):46-53. Thirtieth anniversary issue. Download/print in PDF format, 2.3 mb.

"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 in PDF format, 220 kb.

"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, 1.3 mb.

"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. Download/print in PDF format, 1.6 mb.

"Human Uniqueness and Human Dignity," in President's Council on Bioethics, Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics. Washington, DC: President's Council on Bioethics, 2008.      Download/print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.

"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 Bible and Ecology," Interpretation: Journal of Bible and Theology 50(1996):16-26. Download/print in PDF format, 570 kb. Also translated into Japanese.

"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, 800 kb

"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, 330 kb.

"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.

"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.

"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).

"Evolutionary History and Divine Presence," Theology Today (Princeton) 55(1998):415-434. Download/print in PFD format, 1.1 mb.

"Preaching on the Environment," Journal for Preachers 23 (no. 4, 2000):25- 32.

"Wildlife and Wildlands: A Christian Perspective."   Pages 122-143 in Dieter T. Hessell ed., After Nature's Revolt: Eco-Justice and Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1992.

"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 in PDF format, 1.5 mb.

"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, 1.2 mb.

"Biodiversity and Spirit," Science and Spirit 11(no. 4, November/December 2000):34. Epilogue, one-page essay in a theme issue on Science, Religion, and the Stewardship of Earth.

"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 in PDF format, 625 kb

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, 1.3 mb. Lecture at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge, March 9, 2005. Online with lecture and discussion (broadband connection).

"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, 376 kb.

"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, .5 mb.

"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, 340 kb.

"Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science."  Pages 908-928 in Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).  Download/Print in PDF format, 1.1 mb.

"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, 1.2 mb.  Download/Print in PDF format, 1.2 mb.

"Ecology: A Primer for Christian Ethics," Journal of Catholic Social Thought 4(no. 2, 2007):293-312.   Download/print in PDF format, 1.2 mb.

"Generating Life on Earth: Six 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, 1.4 mb.

 

Research Conference

The following papers appear in an issue of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 2, the proceedings of a research conference devoted to Rolston's work at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, February 8-16, 1991.

"Respect for Life: Christians, Creation, and Environmental Ethics," pp. 1-8.

"Genes, Genesis, and God in Natural and Human History," pp. 9-23.

Proceedings papers, commentaries in analysis of Rolston's published work and conference papers:

Robert T. Schimke, "Reflections from a Molecular Biologist," pp. 24-26.

Walter R. Hearn, "Science, Selves, and Stories," pp. 26-31.

Carol J. Tabler, "Value Vocabulary in Biology and Theology," pp. 32-33.

Ted Peters, "Beyond the Genes: Epigenesis and God, pp. 34-35.

Margaret R. McLean, "A Moral World `Red in Tooth and Claw'," pp. 36-38.


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