Religion and Science: An Introduction

Brendan Sweetman is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy, Rockhurst University, USA. He is the author of Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2006) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (OUP, 1992).

"Sweetman's work is a brilliant, lucid, fair and balanced introduction to the historical and contemporary relationship between science and religion. His non-polemical, even-handed book should engage all those with interests in philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and the vexing question in the history of ideas and culture about whether religion and science are or can be friends or foes." -- Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, MN, USA.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Religion and Science in History:; 3. Naturalism in the Twentieth Century; 4. The Theory of Evolution; 5. Science and the human person; 6: Design in the Universe; 7: The Nature of the Universe; 8: Science and Moral Issues.