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Science and Religion

One World — Changing Perspectives on Reality

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Editors:
  1. Jan Fennema

    1. Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte en Maatschappijwetenschappen, Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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  2. Iain Paul

    1. Craigneuk and Belhaven Parish Church, Wishaw (Lanarkshire), Scotland

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. An encounter between science and religion preliminary observations

    1. An encounter between science and religion preliminary observations

      • Jan Fennema
      Pages 13-23

  3. Lectures in full sessions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-26
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    2. Introduction to the conference theme

      1. Science and religion
        • A. G. M. van Melsen
        Pages 27-34
      2. Fundamental issues in theology and science
        • T. F. Torrance
        Pages 35-46
      3. Science and religion, the Jewish position
        • M. Bloemendal
        Pages 47-60

    3. Reconciling developments in the natural sciences — the question of scientism

      1. Physics, life and mind: The scope and limitations of science
        • Alfred Gierer
        Pages 61-72
      2. Reconciling concepts between natural science and theology
        • Wolfgang Weidlich
        Pages 73-86
      3. A revived natural theology
        • J. C. Polkinghorne
        Pages 87-98

    4. Reconding developments in theology — the question of dogmatism

      1. Theology and cosmology beyond the Big Bang theory
        • Willem B. Drees
        Pages 99-130
      2. God’s world and man becoming: how can science possibly help us transcend dogmatism?
        • Jan Van der Veken
        Pages 131-138

    5. The divorce of science and religion — a process in retrospect

      1. Historical interaction between science and religion
        • Olaf Pedersen
        Pages 139-160
      2. Is there a role for theology in an age of secular science?
        • John R. Durant
        Pages 161-172

    6. Science and religion coming across

      1. Science and religion coming across
        • Jürgen Hübner
        Pages 173-182
      2. Creation and Big Bang: the word as space of the creation
        • Gabriel Vahanian
        Pages 183-191

  4. Contributions in sectional meetings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Science and religion: a Ghanaian perspective

      • Johannes A. Mawuli Awudza
      Pages 194-194

    3. The mystical ideal and the humanistic ideal within the world of ideals in the sciences

      • Richard Becerra-Acevedo
      Pages 195-195

    4. Scientific truth and religious truth

      • G. J. Béné
      Pages 196-196

    5. Two approaches and one reality: on religion and the perception of the Cosmos

      • P. W. Böckman
      Pages 197-197
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About this book

The world is increasingly becoming . one. It is, at the same time, one endangered ecosystem and one thriving market place with material and spiritual goods on competitive display. And the good and evil things of life cannot easily be sorted out. The world is becoming one also in the sense that it is better understood today than it was in earlier times, that the material good and the spiritual good, though seemingly belonging to different realms of fact defined by their respective modes of existence, together constitute effectively one and the same reality: the modem world of science, technology, computerized administration and power, that calls upon humankind to struggle for a 'just, participatory and sustainable society' * , and to strive for a society of the future that will be the world over both long-lived and worth living. The Second European Conference on Science and Religion, held on 10-13th. March, 1988, on the campus of the Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, was meant to be a modest market place, a forum, where standpoints and opinions could be presented and criticized. It was meant to offer an opportunity to meet and to make acquaintances in the expectation that the exchange of thoughts would lead to new conceptual horizons that would challenge what so far had been considered as hard fact or what until now had been looked upon as a distinctive feature of a well-established view either of the kingdom of the sciences or of the realm of religion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte en Maatschappijwetenschappen, Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Jan Fennema

  • Craigneuk and Belhaven Parish Church, Wishaw (Lanarkshire), Scotland

    Iain Paul

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Science and Religion

  • Book Subtitle: One World — Changing Perspectives on Reality

  • Editors: Jan Fennema, Iain Paul

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2021-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0731-0Published: 31 March 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7406-3Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2021-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 240

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Pragmatism

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