Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

J.B. Stump is Professor of Philosophy and directs the philosophy program at Bethel College (Indiana, USA). He is the philosophy editor of Christian Scholar’s Review, and has published articles there as well as in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophia Christi. He has co-authored (with Chad Meister) Christian Thought: A Historical Introduction (2010).Alan G. Padgett is Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Long involved in the dialogue between theology and science, he is a member of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) and has lectured in Europe, Canada, the US and China on religion and theology. He has authored or edited 10 other books, including Science and the Study of God (2003).

“The Blackwell Companions are a well-known and prestigious series that always form an up-to-date and high-quality entry to a certain academic domain ... My appreciation prevails and I believe this book really offers a most worthy introduction to the issue of science-Christianity relations. Congratulations to Stump and Padgett for putting together this valu­able collection of well-written essays.”  (Philosophia Reformata, 1 November 2015)“As I said at the outset, this Blackwell Companion has proved itself to be an indispensable companion to me as I try to set out the current shape of the field for the third generation, but I cannot help but wonder how different such a volume will look in their time.”  (Modern Believing, 1 January 2014)“The result is a fascinating, rich collection of fifty-four essays grouped into eleven major sections . . . To sum up, this volume nicely complements other recent works in the ongoing interaction between science and religion. Students and teachers in the field will find this volume an accessible, reliable, and up-to-date resource for the contemporary discourse between science and Christianity.”  (Themelios, 1 April 2013)“For those who have such a background, this book will be a valuable asset for orienting themselves in the broader conversation.”  (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, 1 March 2013)“Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.”  (Choice, 1 December 2012)

• Acknowledgments ixNotes on Contributors xIntroduction xviiiJ. B. Stump and Alan G. PadgettPart I Historical Episodes 11 Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor 3Christopher B. Kaiser2 The Copernican Revolution and the Galileo Affair 14Maurice A. Finocchiaro3 Women, Mechanical Science, and God in the Early Modern Period 26Jacqueline Broad4 Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century 37Peter J. Bowler5 Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science 48Edward B. DavisPart II Methodology 616 How to Relate Christian Faith and Science 63Mikael Stenmark7 Authority 74Nicholas Rescher8 Feminist Philosophies of Science: Towards a Prophetic Epistemology 82Lisa L. Stenmark9 Practical Objectivity: Keeping Natural Science Natural 93Alan G. Padgett10 The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism 103Alvin PlantingaPart III Natural Theology 11711 Arguments to God from the Observable Universe 119Richard Swinburne12 “God of the Gaps” Arguments 130Gregory E. Ganssle13 Natural Theology after Modernism 140J. B. Stump14 Religious Epistemology Personified: God without Natural Theology 151Paul K. Moser15 Problems for Christian Natural Theology 162Alexander R. Pruss and Richard M. GalePart IV Cosmology and Physics 17316 Modern Cosmology and Christian Theology 175Stephen M. Barr17 Does the Universe Need God? 185Sean Carroll18 Does God Love the Multiverse? 198Don N. Page19 The Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos: A Fresh Look at its Implications 207Robin Collins20 Quantum Theory and Theology 220Rodney D. HolderPart V Evolution 23121 Creation and Evolution 233Denis R. Alexander22 Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven? 246Michael Ruse23 Creation and Evolutionary Convergence 258Simon Conway Morris24 Signature in the Cell: Intelligent Design and the DNA Enigma 270Stephen C. Meyer25 Darwin and Intelligent Design 283Francisco J. Ayala26 Christianity and Human Evolution 295John F. Haught27 Christian Theism and Life on Earth 306Paul DraperPart VI The Human Sciences 31728 Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity 319Justin L. Barrett29 The Third Wound: Has Psychology Banished the Ghost from the Machine? 335Dylan Evans30 Sociology and Christianity 344John H. Evans and Michael S. Evans31 Economics and Christian Faith 356Robin J. KlayPart VII Christian Bioethics 36932 Shaping Human Life at the Molecular Level 371James C. Peterson33 An Inclusive Framework for Stem Cell Research 381John F. Kilner34 The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology 393Philippe Gagnon35 Ecology and the Environment 406Lisa H. SiderisPart VIII Metaphysical Implications 41936 Free Will and Rational Choice 421E. J. Lowe37 Science, Religion, and Infinity 430Graham Oppy38 God and Abstract Objects 441William Lane Craig39 Laws of Nature 453Lydia JaegerPart IX The Mind 46540 Christianity, Neuroscience, and Dualism 467J. P. Moreland41 The Emergence of Persons 480William Hasker42 Christianity and the Extended-Mind Thesis 491Lynne Rudder Baker43 In Whose Image? Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei 500Noreen Herzfeld44 How Science Lost its Soul, and Religion Handed it Back 510Julian BagginiPart X Theology 52145 The Trinity and Scientific Reality 523John Polkinghorne46 God and Miracle in an Age of Science 533Alan G. Padgett47 Eschatology in Science and Theology 543Robert John Russell48 The Quest for Transcendence in Theology and Cosmology 554Alexei V. NesterukPart XI Significant Figures of the Twentieth Century in Science and Christianity 56549 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 567James F. Salmon50 Thomas F. Torrance 578Tapio Luoma51 Arthur Peacocke 589Taede A. Smedes52 Ian G. Barbour 600Nathan J. Hallanger53 Wolfhart Pannenberg 611Hans Schwarz54 John Polkinghorne 622Christopher C. KnightIndex 632