This book, first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fact, neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence"--and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses. Along the way, they repeatedly demolish the clich�s so typical of popular histories of the science and religion debate, demonstrating the impossibility of reducing these debates to a single narrative, or of narrowing this relationship to a paradigm of conflict.
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"Excellent treatment, particularly in avoiding simplistic essentializing characterizations of both religion and science."--Richard Payne, Graduate Theological Union
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John Brooke is at University of Lancaster. Geoffrey Cantor is at University of Leeds.
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Review from The Tablet (31 Oct 1998): "The interactionof Christianity and science is more often than not discussed in a historical vacuum. Reconstructing Nature is, therefore, an unusual and stimulating exercise which surveys the interaction over the last 500 years. It produces new insights and challenges some widely held assumptions."
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- Natural Theology (Oxford World's Classics) by William Paley in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Science and Spirituality: The Volatile Connection by David Knight in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Webs of Reality: Social Perspectives on Science and Religion by William A. Stahl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Negotiating Religious Faith in the Composition Classroom by Elizabeth Vander Lei on page 72, and page 82
- Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren on page 163, and page 379
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