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.

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. Download/print in PDF format, 1.6 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,"  JP 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).

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, 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.

"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.

"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, 3.2 kb.

"Creation and Resurrection."  JP Journal for Preachers 32(no. 3, 2009):25-32. Download/Print in PDF format, 600 kb.

"The Bond between Nature, Faith." Times Union, Albany, New York. Saturday, April 4, 2009, p. B3.    Download/Print in PDF format, 2 mb.

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.

 

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.