Table of Contents
Religion and the Sciences
Opportunities and Challenges
Edited by Ronald A. Simkins and Thomas M. Kelly, Creighton University
Introduction (pp. 1-3)
Relationship between Religion and the Sciences
1. Interdisciplinary Engagement, Productive Dialogues, and Emerging Insights (pp. 4–12)
2. Pragmatism and Disunity in Science and Religion: Peirce and Cartwright (pp. 13–30)
3. Scientific Nonsense, Historical Fiction, and Biblical Authority: The Historical Adam and Other Misguided Dogmas (pp. 31–45)
4. Theology, Science, and Sexual Anthropology: A Methodological Investigation (pp. 46–72)
Religion and the Social Sciences
5. Data-Driven Religion: Empirical Thinking in Theological Inquiry (pp. 73-81)
6. Inquiry for Action: The Latin American Church and the Social Sciences Post Vatican II (pp. 82-92)
7. Some Psychological Aspects of Religious Ethics: Virtue and Motivation
(pp. 93-109)
Religion and the Natural Sciences
8. Big Questions in Cosmology: Intersections between Science and Religion (pp. 110-27)
9. Life, Design, and Drama: A Theological Response to Evolutionary Naturalism (pp. 128-37)
10. What Can Christian Ethics Learn from Evolutionary Examinations of Altruism? (pp. 138-48)
11. Contested Spiritual Landscapes in Modern American Astronomy (pp. 149-62)
Religion, Science, and the Environment
12. Creation Facing Forward: How the Irreversible Consequences of Climate Change Challenge and Inform Christian Conceptions of Creation (pp. 163-77)
13. Athens and Jerusalem or How to Think Eco-Theologically about Scientia (pp. 178-92)
14. Contested Wonder: Biological Reductionism and Children’s Nature Education (pp. 193-205)