1st Edition
God and the Book of Nature Experiments in Theology of Science
Introduction Mark Harris
Part I Method and Metaphor
1 A Scientist-Theologian’s Perspective on Science-Engaged Theology: The Case for “Theology of Science” as a Sub-discipline within Science and Religion
Mark Harris
2 The Solidarity-Dehumanization Nexus: Addressing Three Barriers for a Science-Engaged Theological Ethic
Matthew Elia
3 The Book of Nature as an Augustinian Hermeneutical Project
Paul Allen
4 Augustinianism and the Book of Nature: Protestant Perils and Promise
Frederick Simmons
Part II Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature
5 Seeing God in Nature: Rethinking Bonaventure after Evolutionary Biology
Jamie Boulding
6 Creaturely Agency in Evolution and Theology
Megan Loumagne Ulishney
7 Saving the Macroscopic: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Nature
William Simpson and Simon Horsley
Part III Ecotheology and Nature
8 What Can Ecotheological and Agroecological Accounts Contribute to Biopolitical Perspectives on Farming?
Andrew Jones and Kin Wing (Ray) Chan
9 When Ecotheology Meets Paleoclimatology: Engaging Theology with the Deep History of Life on Earth
Bethany Sollereder
Part IV Naturalisms and Nature
10 Science, Determinism, and Free Will
Simon Kittle
11 Religiously Motivated Science Skepticism: When It Could Be Rational and How to Engage with it
Rope Kojonen
12 Both God and Nature: Providential Naturalism as a Middle Way in Contemporary Divine Action Debates
Josh A. Reeves and Peter N. Jordan
13 Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality
Wesley J. Wildman
Biography
Mark Harris is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK.
