1st Edition
Against Methodology in Science and Religion Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology
By Josh Reeves
Copyright 2019
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues. Following the lead of Thomas Kuhn, many scholars in this interdisciplinary field have offered proposals that purport to show how theology and science are compatible by appropriating theories of scientific methodology or rationality.... Read more
1 Introduction: On Making Theology "Scientific" 2 Methodology and the Field of Science and Religion 3 The Lakatosian Program of Nancey Murphy 4 Alister McGrath’s Scientific Theology 5 The Postfoundationalist Project of J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen 6 Anti-Essentialism and the History of Science 7 Anti-Essentialism and the Future of the Field of Science and Religion
Biography
Josh Reeves is Assistant Professor of Science and Religion at Samford University, USA. Having run the New Directions in Science and Religion project, he has also written multiple articles on science and religion for peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of A Little Book for New Scientists (2016).
