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T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences

T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences

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£160.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567680426
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 01/10/2020
Width: 16.9 cm
Height: 24.4 cm

This handbook surveys the many relationships between scientific studies of the world around us and Christian concepts of the Divine from the ancient Greeks to modern ecotheology. From Augustine to Hildegard of Bingen, Genesis to Frederick Douglass, and physics to sociology, this volume opens the intersections of Christian theology and science to new concepts, voices, and futures.

The central goal of the handbook is to bring new perspectives to the foreground of Christian theological engagement with science, and to highlight the many engagements today that are not often identified as 'science-theology' discussions. The handbook thus includes several aspects not found in previous handbooks on the same topic: significant representation from the three major branches of Christianity—Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant; multiple essays on areas of modern science not traditionally part of the “theology and science” dialogue, such as discussions of race, medicine, and sociology; a collection of essays on historical theologians' approaches to nature and science.

T&T Clark Handbook to Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences is divided into 3 sections: historical explorations, encompassing a eleven chapters from Aristotle to Frederick Douglass; Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox surveys of theology-science scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries; and ten explorations in Christian theology today, from Einsteinian physics to decolonial sociology. The 24 chapters than span the volume offer the reader, whether scholar, student, or layperson, an essential resource for any future conversations around science and Christian theology.

Introduction, John P. Slattery (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA)

I. Historical Explorations
1. The Genesis Creation Accounts, J. Richard Middleton (Northeastern Seminary, USA)
2. Wisdom’s Wonder and the Science of Awe, William Brown (Columbia Theological Seminary, USA)
3. Aristotle’s Sciences: Inquiring into Nature and the Divine, Anne Siebels Peterson (University of Utah, USA)
4. Augustine and Science, John C. Cavadini (University of Notre Dame, USA)
5. Basil and the Greek Fathers on Creation in the Hexaemeron, Andrew Louth (University of Durham, UK)
6. Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene’s Cosmology, Doru Costache (St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological College, Australia)
7. Hildegard of Bingen, Debra Stoudt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
8. Thomas Aquinas, Michael J. Dodds, O.P. (Graduate Theological Union, USA)
9. John Calvin and Modern Science, Brian Edgar (Asbury Theological Seminary, USA)
10. George Washington Williams, Frederick Douglass, and Maria Stewart: Race, Science, and Moral Resistance in African American Political Thought, Terrence Johnson (Georgetown University, USA)
11. Neo-Scholasticism and Anti-Evolutionary Catholicism: A Brief History, John P. Slattery (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA)

II. Transitioning from the 20th to the 21st Century
12. 20th and 21st Century Catholic Voices on Nature and Science, Paul Schutz (Santa Clara University, USA)
13. 20th and 21st Century Orthodox Voices on Nature and Science, Elizabeth Theokritoff (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK) and Christopher C. Knight (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, UK)
14. 20th and 21st Century Protestant Voices on Nature and Science, Sarah Lane Ritchie (University of Edinburgh, UK)

III. Explorations in Christian Theology Today
15. The Encounter of Theology with Physics: An Eastern Christian Perspective, Stoyan Tanev (Carleton University, Canada)
16. The Human as World-Maker: An Anthropocene Dogma, Lisa Sideris (Indiana University, USA)
17. Theology and the Biological Sciences, Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Oxford, UK)
18. Medical Innovation, Conventional Theology, Terri Laws (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
19. Theology and the Psychological Sciences, Jessica Coblentz (Saint Mary’s College, USA)
20. Theology and the Social Sciences: A Contemporary Overview, Timothy K. Snyder (Wesley Theological Seminary, USA)
21. Black Noise and the Sorrow Songs: A Reflection on the Negro Spirituals and the Involuntary Modernization of Black Music, Rufus Burnett (Fordham University, USA)
22. Liturgy as Ethicizer: Cultivating Ecological Consciousness through a Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Ethos, Stephen Meawad (Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, USA)
23. A Case Study for Lived Religion-and-Science: Theology of Urban Ecology, Lea F. Schweitz (Independent Scholar, USA)
24. Environmental Sciences and Christian Theology, Paul Schutz (Santa Clara University, USA)

Dr John P. Slattery (American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA)

John P. Slattery is Senior Program Associate with the Dialogue on the Science, Ethics, and Religion Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC, USA

For theologians and educators who seek examples of what one might call "socially aware theology and science," this volume will be a valuable resource. * Reading Religion * [T]he volume satisfies a double aim, that of providing a status quaestionis and clarifying the historical-philosophical roots of the issues dealt with. * DISF: Interdisciplinary Documentation Portal of Science and Religion *

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