Science and Religion

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

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.

• Christianity
• German
• Religion
• computer
• concept
• cosmology
• dialogue
• evolution
• experience
• knowledge
• metaphysics
• natural theology
• space
• structure
• water

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

  Jan Fennema

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

  Iain Paul

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