Has Science Killed God?: The Faraday Papers on Science and Religion - Softcover

Alexander, Dr Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281081344 ISBN 13: 9780281081349

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

World-leading experts tackle challenging issues of science and faith.

Here are 20 papers from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, which is a UK educational charity, and a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation which is an affiliate of Cambridge University. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of courses, conferences, lectures, seminars and the media.

The Faraday Papers provide the general reader with accessible and readable introductions to the relationship between science and religion, written by a broad range of authors who are expert in the field. They are intended to be read by those without a scientific background. Here they are collected for the first time into a single volume.

Contributors include:
Has Science Killed God? - Prof. Alister McGrath FRSA
The Science and Religion Debate, an Introduction - Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS
Why Care for the Environment? - Prof. Sir John Houghton FRS
Ethical Issues in Genetic Modification - Prof. John Bryant
The Age of the Earth - Prof. Bob White FRS
Creation and Evolution not Creation or Evolution - Prof. R.J. Berry FRSE

About this title

About the Authors

Denis Alexander is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion,St Edmund's College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow.Dr Alexander was previously Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Prior to that he was at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London (now Cancer Research UK), andspent 15 years developing university departments and laboratories overseas, latterly as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in the Medical Faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. There he helped to establish the National Unit of Human Genetics.

He was initially an Open Scholar at Oxford reading Biochemistry, before obtaining a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

Dr Alexander writes,lectures and broadcasts widely in the field of science and religion. His Monarch titles include: Creation or Evolution and Is There Purpose inBiology?.

Alister E. McGrath (DPhil and DD, University of Oxford; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts) is professor of theology, ministry, and education, and head of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King's College, London. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including the award-winning The Passionate Intellect: ChristianFaith and the Discipleship of the Mind. A former atheist, he is respectful yet critical of the new atheist movement and regularly engages in debate and dialogue with its leaders.

From the Back Cover

* What about genetic engineering?
* Does science need religion?
* What about miracles?
* What is consciousness?

Here are twenty papers from The Faraday Institute, by some of the world's leading scientists, philosophers and theologians, on current and future issues surrounding science and faith. Professor Alister McGrath contributes an introductory essay.

The Faraday Papers provide the general reader with accessible and readable introductions to the relationship between science and religion. Here they are collected for the first time into a single volume.

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is a UK educational charity, and a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation, an affiliate of Cambridge University.

Edition details

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281081344
• ISBN 13: 9780281081349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240