At a time of heightened alienation and conflict between Islam and the West, there is a need to promote a “dialogue of civilizations” as called for by President Khatami. The dialogue between science and religion provides an important point of departure.
The core of the evolution wars is whether a scientific understanding of biology allows room for religious and philosophical commitments to purpose in human life, purposes that somehow also must connect to the unfolding history of the universe.
Though I am unpersuaded by the overall argument, it is a pleasure to say that the book is for the most part wonderfully lucid at the individual sentence level, and often displays a charmingly light touch.
Christian theological thinking on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit raises questions about the relationship between “spirit” and science. There are a wide array of uses of the concept of spirit. This essay presents a preliminary typology of such uses.
We are tiny creatures on a small planet some 10 billion-plus years along the way in what we sometimes call “cosmic evolution.” And we want to ask, where it will all lead?
Some questions about his neuroscientific research on Carmelite nuns.
1) Cultural Ambivalence 2) Definitional Ambiguity 3) Metaphysics Matters 4) Relational Revelations 5) Science as a Spiritual Quest 6) The Sciences of Religion Revisited 7) Healthy Semiotics 8) Innumerate Nescience 9) Philistine Fideism 10) Moral Muddles
Each of us today realizes our connection to the society in which we live through countless feedback loops. Each of us helps to generate and sustain the meaning by which that society functions.
I love science and I love Jesus. How do I exist in such divergent domains where my fellows criticize me for being in each?
Philip Clayton seeks ways to resolve the apparent conflict experienced when reading scripture and studying natural history. How can God act in the world without violating the laws of science?