Science, Theology, and Ethics (Routledge Science and Religion Series) - Hardcover

Peters, Ted

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754608247 ISBN 13: 9780754608240

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Science challenges faith to seek fuller understanding, and faith challenges science to be socially and ethically responsible. This book begins with faith in God the Creator of the world, and then expands our understanding of creation in light of Big Bang cosmology and new discoveries in physics. Examining the expanding frontier of genetic research, Ted Peters draws out implications for theological understandings of human nature and human freedom. Issues discussed include: methodology in science and theology; eschatology in cosmology and theology; freedom and responsibility in evolution and theology; and genetic determinism, genetic engineering, and cloning in relation to freedom, the comodification of human life, and equitable distribution of the fruits of genetic technology. The dialogue model of relationship between science and religion, proposed in this book, provides a common ground for the disparate voices among theologians, scientists, and world religions. This common ground has the potential to breathe new life into current debates about the world in which we live, move, and have our being.

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Ted Peters

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754608247
• ISBN 13: 9780754608240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360