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God and the Book of Nature focuses on developing theological views of nature and of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship.
List of contents
Introduction Mark Harris
Part I Method and Metaphor1 A Scientist-Theologian's Perspective on Science-Engaged Theology: The Case for "Theology of Science" as a Sub-discipline within Science and Religion
Mark Harris2 The Solidarity-Dehumanization Nexus: Addressing Three Barriers for a Science-Engaged Theological Ethic
Matthew Elia3 The Book of Nature as an Augustinian Hermeneutical Project
Paul Allen4 Augustinianism and the Book of Nature: Protestant Perils and Promise
Frederick SimmonsPart II Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature5 Seeing God in Nature: Rethinking Bonaventure after Evolutionary Biology
Jamie Boulding6 Creaturely Agency in Evolution and Theology
Megan Loumagne Ulishney7 Saving the Macroscopic: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Nature
William Simpson and Simon HorsleyPart III Ecotheology and Nature8 What Can Ecotheological and Agroecological Accounts Contribute to Biopolitical Perspectives on Farming?
Andrew Jones and Kin Wing (Ray) Chan9 When Ecotheology Meets Paleoclimatology: Engaging Theology with the Deep History of Life on Earth
Bethany SollerederPart IV Naturalisms and Nature10 Science, Determinism, and Free Will
Simon Kittle11 Religiously Motivated Science Skepticism: When It Could Be Rational and How to Engage with it
Rope Kojonen12 Both God and Nature: Providential Naturalism as a Middle Way in Contemporary Divine Action Debates
Josh A. Reeves and Peter N. Jordan13 Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality
Wesley J. Wildman
About the author
Mark Harris is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK.
