Re-Vision: A New Look at the Relationship between Science and Religion

by Clifford Chalmers Cain (Editor)

Overview

Re-Vision addresses four issues that lie at the crux of the relationship between science and religion—the origin of the cosmos and creation in Genesis; evolutionary theory and God’s action in the world; genes and human freedom; and whether intelligent design is good science and/or good theology. This book includes commentary on each of these issues from three scientists, a philosopher, and a theologian. The contributors represent a wide variety of worldviews and beliefs, and readers are encouraged to use their thoughts as springboards for personal reactions and conclusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761865476
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	03/25/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Clifford Chalmers Cain is Harrod-C.S. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies at Westminster College of Missouri. He is interested in contemporary religious thought, the interface between science and religion, and the contributions of world religions to ecology. His recent trilogy in environmental theology—An Ecological Theology, Down to Earth, and Many Heavens, One Earth—is now joined by this seventh book, Re-Vision.

Table of Contents

Foreword
W. Mark Richardson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Chapter 2: The Big Bang Theory
Laura Stumpe
Chapter 3: Cosmic Origins and Genesis: A Religious Response
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Chapter 4: Seeing the Reality of Evolution
Gabe McNett
Chapter 5: Evolution and Divine Providence: A Religious Response
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Chapter 6: The Complex Relationship between Nature and Nurture
Jane Kenney-Hunt
Chapter 7: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom: A Religious Response
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Chapter 8: Intelligent Design
Rich Geenen
Chapter 9: Is the Intelligent Designer the Biblical, Traditional God?: A Religious Response
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Chapter 10: Conclusions
Clifford Chalmers Cain
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

Cain shows himself more than able in this clear exposition of the creative potential in the conversation between science and religion. This volume of collaboration among three scientists, a philosopher, and a theologian will enlighten readers of all ages and abilities in seeking to understand the gifts of both ways of knowing this world in which we live and move and have our being.

Katharine Jefferts Schori

It is impossible to read this beautifully written and insightful book and not come away believing that science and religion can indeed benefit from a closer relationship with each other, and that the way to achieve that goal is through respectful conversation.

James R. Curry

In this compilation, Clifford Chalmers Cain argues for conversation and even partnership as a model for the interaction between science and religion.. .. These chapters describe the best and latest that science has to offer in understanding our world.

Nick Steph