Understanding Religion and Science: Introducing the Debate. Michael Horace Barnes - Hardcover

Michael Horace Barnes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441182004 ISBN 13: 9781441182005

Publisher: Continuum Intl Publishing Grp, 2010

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Review:

"This is a most impressive work by a recognized expert in science and religion. It is filled with genuine learning in natural science, Western theology, and world religions. Barnes work is informed by a vast amount of reading and research, but it is eminently readable and should appeal to a wide spectrum of potential readers, including not only students, scholars, and teachers, but also educated general readers. This innovative study is very well-written, comprehensive, and beautifully organized. From beginning to end it remains consistently interesting, provocative, and fair. I wish it had been available to me when I was teaching courses on science and religion." - John F. Haught, Woodstock Theological Center, USA

'[It] introduces the debate clearly and in detail (without forcing a view of either belief or atheism)' Church Times, 23rd July 2010

"Understanding Religion and Science makes a significant contribution to the growing field of Science and a Religion by examining major questions about the relations of the two with attention to their respective goals and methods, and with exploration about where they might meet. Although Michael A. Barnes self-identifies as a theologian, the book would be a good choice not only for a Theology course but also for Religious Studies courses." - Anne M. Clifford, Msgr. James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA

'Michael Barnes's introduction to the debate carefully and systematically lays out the self-understanding of many in the scientific and religious communities in ways that make them comprehensible to the layman but in a sophisticated manner that will satisfy many who have been thinking about these issues throughout their lives.'--Sanford Lakoff

Barnes offers a very helpful analysis of contemporary interactions... The book is well-written, historically informed and presents multiple points of view fairly.--Sanford Lakoff

About the Author:

Michael Horace Barnes is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton, USA. He is author of Stages of Thought: The Co-Evolution of Religious Thought and Science (Oxford, 2000), which won the College Theology Society's award for best book of the year.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Publishing Grp
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441182004
• ISBN 13: 9781441182005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336