Creation and Kenotic Love: A Descriptive and Critical Review
A review of “The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis,” edited by John Polkinghorne.
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A Review of Robert Pollack’s The Faith of Biology and the Biology
Review of Robert Pollack. The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning and Free Will in Modern Medical Science. Columbia Series in Science and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvi+125p. Bibliography, index. Robert Pollack, a dedicated scientist who in recent years has returned to his religious heritage to become…
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Realized Religion, reviewed by Jeff Dahms
“Better health, a higher degree of well being, more marital satisfaction, less addiction, less suicide, better likelihood of healing.” You can have it all if you are really religious, say Theodore Chamberlain and Christopher Hall in their new book Realized Religion: Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health. Dr. Theodore J. Chamberlain is an…
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A Critique of the Science in Russell Stannard’s “The God Experiment”
Review of Russell Stannard’s The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God? Mawhah, NJ: Mindspring. 1999. The Prayer Experiment Stannard’s overarching view is that science and religion have very much in common. Science is a little more experimentally ambiguous, tentative and broadly inferential than we commonly think and theology is more empirically…
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Review of David Ray Griffin’s “Religion & Scientific Naturalism”
Review of: RELIGION AND SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM, OVERCOMING THE CONFLICTS, by David Ray Griffin. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 345 pages, index, notes, bibliography. Softcover; $25.95. ISBN 0-7914-4563-1. David Ray Griffin, Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont, a prolific writer on issues of science and religion, has written a…
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Review of Anthony Massimini’s “The New Dance of Christ”
A review of Anthony T. Massimini’s The New Dance of Christ: Discovering Our Spiritual Self in a New, Evolving World (Xlibris Corporation/Random House; Philadelphia, 2000; 280 pages; ISBN 073-882795-9) Despite its seemingly precious title and un-academic cover, this is a very ambitious work. Dr. Massimini sets out to paint a unifying vision of reality that…
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Altruism in Groups: Evolutionary Biological and Psychological Evidence
A review of “Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior” by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson.
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A review of Franz De Waal’s “The Ape and the Sushi Master”
The following is also posted at http://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionaryalong with supplemental essays.—————— Imo and Frans Wrote a BookA review of: De Waal, F. (2001) The Ape and the Sushi Master: CulturalReflections of a Primatologist. NY: Basic Books. 433 pp., $26 list.James Brody, Ph.D.Editor, Evolutionary Psychology & Clinical Sociobiologyhttp://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionary We each build our own nest with our lives,…
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A review of Matt Ridley’s Genome: The Autobiography of a Species
The following is posted at http://www.behavior.net/forums/evolutionary. A review of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by MattRidley, 344 pp., NY: Harper Collins, 2000, $26. James Brody, Ph.D. Genome has been with us for 18 months. Nonetheless, Ridley’s prose is stillengaging, his outlooks refreshing and he has been praised widely, perhapsbecause Genome is…
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Review of Rachel Naomi Remen’s “My Grandfather’s Blessings”
Review of Rachel Naomi Remen’s My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging. (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), Anyone who can read Rachel Naomi Remen’s My Grandfather’s Blessings without shedding a tear or two should make an appointment with a cardiologist to make sure their heart is still beating. Few books concerning health…