Joseph R. Laracy, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, serves as assistant professor of systematic theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, Seton Hall University. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Program of Catholic Studies, Department of the Core Curriculum, and the University Honors Program. Father Laracy earned his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a fellow of the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

“In this wonderfully readable and informative book, Father Laracy has given us a very careful, perceptive, and learned study and critique of the philosophy and theology of Ian Barbour, whose writings on the relation of science and religion have had enormous influence. Father Laracy shows that there is much of value in Barbour’s thought, but also much that is problematic from the point of view of fundamental Catholic beliefs.”—Stephen M. Barr, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Delaware and President, The Society of Catholic Scientists

• Foreword – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Ian Barbour: Life and Works – Barbour’s Fundamental Principles: Theological Presuppositions, Epistemology, and Met–aphysics Theology and Science: Similarities and Differences According to Barbour – A Catholic Critique for the Doctrine of Creation – Toward Dialogue and Integration – Index.

Joseph R. Laracy, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, serves as assistant professor of systematic theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, Seton Hall University. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Program of Catholic Studies, Department of the Core Curriculum, and the University Honors Program. Father Laracy earned his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as well as a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a fellow of the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

“In this wonderfully readable and informative book, Father Laracy has given us a very careful, perceptive, and learned study and critique of the philosophy and theology of Ian Barbour, whose writings on the relation of science and religion have had enormous influence. Father Laracy shows that there is much of value in Barbour’s thought, but also much that is problematic from the point of view of fundamental Catholic beliefs.”—Stephen M. Barr, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Delaware and President, The Society of Catholic Scientists

• Foreword – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Ian Barbour: Life and Works – Barbour’s Fundamental Principles: Theological Presuppositions, Epistemology, and Met–aphysics Theology and Science: Similarities and Differences According to Barbour – A Catholic Critique for the Doctrine of Creation – Toward Dialogue and Integration – Index.