Galileo Antichrist: A Biography
A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein, and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him into conflict with his Church and his refusal...
When The Great Abyss Opened: Classic And Contemporary Readings Of Noah's Flood
The story of Noah's flood is one of the best-loved and most often retold biblical tales, the inspiration for numerous children's books and toys, novels, and even films. Whether as allusion, archetype,...
Religion & The Order Of Nature: The 1994 Cadbury Lectures At The University Of Birmingham
The current ecological crisis is a matter of urgent global concern, with solutions being sought on many fronts. In this book, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the devastation of our world has been exac...
Can A Darwinian Be A Christian?: The Relationship Between Science And Religion
Can someone who accepts Darwin's theory of natural selection subscribe at the same time to the basic tenets of Christianity? Adopting a balanced perspective on the subject, Michael Ruse argues that, a...
Born To Believe: God, Science, And The Origin Of Ordinary And Extraordinary Beliefs
"Born to Believe" was previously published in hardcover as "Why We Believe What We Believe," Prayer...meditation...speaking in tongues. What do these spiritual activities share and how do they diffe...
Out-Of-Body And Near-Death Experiences: Brain-State Phenomena Or Glimpses Of Immortality?
Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife. Since most OBE/NDE follow severe curtailme...
Natural Theology: Or Evidence Of The Existence And Attributes Of The Deity, Collected From The Appearances Of Nature
In Natural Theology, William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose des...
Heterodoxy In Early Modern Science And Religion
The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about...
Creation And The World Of Science: The Re-Shaping Of Belief
Arthur Peacocke's 1978 Bampton Lectures were published as Creation and the World of Science, a key work in initiating the explosion of interest in the relation of religion and theology to the sciences...
Reason, Religion, And Democracy
This book also emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships, but it focuses much more heavily on the challenge religious extremism poses for l...
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