Facets of faith and science

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v. 1 Historiography and modes of interaction

Part 1. Historiography

1. Religious belief and the natural sciences : mapping the historical landscape / John Hedley Brooke

2. On the importance of eliminating science and religion from the history of science and religion : the cases of Oliver Lodge, J.H. Jeans and A.S. Eddington / David B. Wilson

3. Interpreting Michael Faraday as the "Christian philosopher" : some problems regarding metaphysics / Geoffrey Cantor

4. Theory, the imagination and God / Thomas W. McCormick

5. Have worldviews shaped science? : a reply to Brooke / Stephen John Wykstra

Part 2. Modes of interaction and their general features

6. Aquinas on faith and science / Kenneth J. Konyndyk

7. The transcendental role of wisdom in science / Thomas F. Torrance

8. Ultimate and penultimate beliefs in science / Thomas F. Torrance

9. Methodological naturalism? / Alvin Plantinga

10. Scientific work and its theological dimensions : toward a theology of natural science / Christopher B. Kaiser

11. The possibility of conflict between science and Christian theology / Kenneth W. Kemp

12. Evaluation of models for interaction between metaphysical beliefs and the natural sciences : the post-Weltanschauungen era / Frederick Suppe

13. Stones that the builder rejected : an essay recommending the critical approach in both science and religion / Tom Settle. v. 2: The role of beliefs in mathematics and the natural sciences : an Augustinian perspective

Part 1. Belief in philosophy of science

1. Abraham Kuyper's philosophy of science / Del Ratzsch

2. Herman Bavinck on faith and science / Al Wolters

3. On the general relation of religion, metaphysics and science / Roy A. Clouser

4. A sketch of Dooyeweerd's philosophy of science / Roy A. Clouser

5. Rationalism, irrationalism, and the absolutized horizon of knowledge as ideals of knowledge in philosophy of science / Danie F.M. Strauss

6. Should worldviews shape science? : toward an integrationist account of scientific theorizing / Stephen John Wykstra

7. Tightening some (loose) screws : prospects for a Christian natural science / Del Ratzsch

Part 2. Beliefs in mathematics, physics and biology

8. How has Christian theology furthered mathematics? / Gene G. Chase

9. A historical analysis of the role of beliefs in the three foundational crises in mathematics / Danie F.M. Strauss

10. Primitive terms in mathematics : the interaction between commitment, theoretical worldview and axiomatic set theory / Danie F.M. Strauss

11. The interplay between science and belief : a case study in modern physics / Donald N. Petcher

12. Religious belief in sociobiology : how a physical analogy introduces materialism in human sociobiology / Jitse M. van der Meer

13. The influence of evolutionary biology on hierarchical theory in biology, with special reference to the problem of individuality / Uko Zylstra. v. 3: The role of beliefs in the natural sciences

Part 1. Beliefs in the physical sciences

1. Astral piety, astronomy and ethics in the ancient Mediterranean world / Liba Taub

2. On the complexity of the relationship between astronomy and religion : Jesuit missionary-astronomers in China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Liba Taub

3. Astronomy for the people : R.A. Proctor and the popularization of the Victorian universe / Bernard Lightman

4. The role of beliefs in modern cosmology / John Byl

5. Newton and Christianity / Richard S. Westfall

6. Newton's rejection of the "Newtonian worldview" : the role of divine will in Newton's natural philosophy / Edward B. Davis

7. Physical laws as knowledge and belief / C.I.J.M. Stuart and T. Settle

8. The shroud of Turin : resetting the carbon-14 clock / Thaddeus J. Trenn

9. Rationalism, voluntarism and seventeenth-century science / Edward B. Davis

Part 2. Beliefs in the biological science

10. The concept of the "open system" : another machine metaphor for the organism? / Sytse Strijbos

11. A sensible God? : the bearing of theology on evolutionary explanation / Paul A. Nelson

12. Mind and brain, science and religion : belief and neuroscience in Donald M. MacKay and Roger W. Sperry

13. Control hierarchies : a view of life / David L. Wilcox

14. The concept of hierarchy in contemporary systems thinking : a key to overcoming reductionism? / Sytse Strijbos. v. 4: Interpreting God's action in the world

Part 1. Theistic interpretations

1. Recent thought on divine agency / Owen C. Thomas

2. The dressage ring and the ballroom : loci of double agency / Tom Settle

3. Randomness, omniscience and divine action / D. Brian Austin

4. Transcendent causes and computational miracles / William A. Dembski

5. On Craig's defence of the Kalam cosmological argument / John Byl

6. The nature of historical science and the demarcation of design and descent / Stephen C. Meyer

7. "Chiasmic cosmology" and "the same old story" : two Lutheran approaches to natural theology / George L. Murphy

8. Theism, Christianity and the grand evolutionary story / Donald H. Wacome

9. The gulf between design and descent : Charles Darwin's rejection of Asa Gray's Apologia / Kenneth W. Hermann

10. Natural theology and a Christian witness in chemistry and physics / Russell Maatman

11. The laws of nature and the nature of God / Christopher B. Kaiser

12. Design, chance and necessity in recent science and philosophy / George W. Sheilds

13. Religious apologetics and the transmutation of knowledge : was a chemico-theology possible in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? / John Hedley Brooke

Part 2. The role of scripture in science

14. An interactive theory of the relation between science and scripture / Clark Pinnock

15. Galileo and the history of hermeneutics / Kenneth J. Howell

16. Copernicanism and the Bible in early modern science / Kenneth J. Howell

17. Faith and science in biblical perspective : human responsibility before God / Henk G. Geertsema

18. Organism of revelation / Michael Goheen

19. Scriptural revelation, creational revelation and natural science : the issue / Michael Goheen

20. Creation as separation : a proposed link between Bible and theory / Al Wolters