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stellar cast of leading theologians and scientists debating science and religion in the public arena. The Boyle lectures are a prestigious lecture series held annually in the City of London. Engaging themes at the cutting-edge of contemporary science and religion debates, from evolution and emergence to the psychology of religious beliefs.

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Religion

Christianisme

Philosophie et théologie

Christian Theology

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Publié par	Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Date de parution	06 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780334049302
Langue	English

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Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
THE BOYLE LECTURES
Edited by
Russell Re Manning and Michael Byrne

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface by Jonathan Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery
Foreword: The Boyle Lectureship and its Trustees – Then and Now by Michael Byrne
Introduction: Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Russell Re Manning

1. Darwin, Design and the Promise of Nature by John F. Haught
2. Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation by Simon Conway Morris
3. The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology? by Philip Clayton
4. Cosmology of Ultimate Concern by John D. Barrow
5. Psychologizing and Neurologizing about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future by Malcolm Jeeves
6. Misusing Darwin: The Materialist Conspiracy in Evolutionary Biology by Keith Ward
7. The Legacy of Robert Boyle: Then and Now by John Hedley Brooke
8. Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions between Science and Theology in the Concepts of Nature, Time, and the Future by Jürgen Moltmann
9. Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom? by Celia Deane-Drummond
10. Science and Religion in Dialogue by John Polkinghorne
Bibliography of Works Cited

Acknowledgements
The editors would like to express their sincere thanks to all the Lecturers and Trustees who have made the first ten years of the revived series of Boyle Lectures such a success.
The Lecturers delivered stimulating and engaging public lectures that are models of academic rigour and public accessibility. They also generously agreed to revise their works for publication in this volume. All ten Lecturers have been a pleasure to work with and we have learnt much from their careful exploration of issues in the relationship between science and religion, in these lectures and elsewhere.
The Trustees have generously given their time to steward the revived series through to its ten-year milestone. As Michael Byrne’s Foreword shows, this is a distinguished group of contemporary Trustees who follow in the footsteps of an equally distinguished original group.
The lectures collected here were followed by substantial Responses when they were first given. For reasons of space – and with much regret – we have been unable to include those Responses in this volume. We are grateful to all the Respondents – The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. Dr Richard Chartres, Professor Niels Gregersen, Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow (Martin Rees), the Revd Dr Fraser Watts, Professor Geoffrey Cantor, the Revd Professor Alan Torrance and Professor Fount LeRon Shults.
We have been privileged to hold all but two of the lectures at St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London, a beautiful Wren church and one of the venues for the original series of Boyle Lectures held in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. We are grateful to the Rector the Revd George R. Bush, the Verger Nick Cressey and the Parish Secretary Matthew Power, for their kind welcome and impeccable administrative assistance.
The lecture series has received generous financial support from The Worshipful Company of Grocers, Gresham College, The Worshipful Company of Mercers, the Bishop of London, Lord Cork and Orrery and the parish of St Mary-le-Bow. We are grateful to these sponsors for their kind encouragement and assistance over the past decade.
We acknowledge permission to reprint revised versions of the following lectures:
John F. Haught, ‘Darwin, Design and the Promise of Nature’, Science and Christian Belief 17.1 (2005), pp. 5–20.
Simon Conway Morris, ‘Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation’, Science and Christian Belief 18.1 (2006), pp. 5–22.
Philip Clayton, ‘The Emergence of Spirit: From Complexity to Anthropology to Theology?’, Theology and Science 4.3 (2006), pp. 291–307.
Malcolm Jeeves, ‘Psychologising and Neurologising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future’, Science and Christian Belief 21.1 (2009), pp. 25–54.
Jürgen Moltmann, ‘ Is the World Unfinished? On Interactions Between Science and Theology in the Concepts of Nature, Time, and the Future’, Theology 114.6 (2011), pp. 403–13.
Celia Deane-Drummond, ‘Christ and Evolution: A Drama of Wisdom?’, Zygon 47–3 (2012), pp. 524–41.

Contributors
John D. Barrow is Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His publications include The Book of Universes (2011), New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation (2008) and The Constants of Nature (2003).
Jonathan Boyle is 15th Earl of Cork and Orrery and Chairman of the Boyle Lecture Trustees.
John Hedley Brooke is the Emeritus Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and a past President of the International Society for Science and Religion. His published works include Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (with Geoffrey Cantor, 2000), Thinking About Matter: Studies in the History of Chemical Philosophy (1995) and Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (1991).
Michael Byrne is founder and co-convenor of the revived series of Boyle Lectures and co-editor (with George R. Bush) of St Mary-le-Bow: A History (2007). He holds postgraduate degrees in history, theology and history of science and is a Fellow of Birkbeck College London.
John F. Haught is Senior Research Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Centre and was formerly Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His published works include Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science (2006), Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in an Age of Evolution (2003) and God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (2000).
Philip Clayton is Dean of Faculty at Claremont School of Theology and Provost of Claremont Lincoln University. His published works include Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (with Zachary Simpson, 2006) and Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (2004).
Simon Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge. His publications include The Deep Structure of Biology (2008), Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (2003) and The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of the Animals (1998).
Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (with Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, 2011), Christ and Evolution: Wonder and Wisdom (2009) and Ecotheology (2008).
Malcolm Jeeves is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of St Andrews. His published works include Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature (with Warren Brown, 2009), Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (revised with D. Myers, 2002) and Science, Life, and Christian Belief (with R. Berry, 1998).
Jürgen Moltmann is Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen. His publications include Science and Wisdom (English translation in 2003), The Crucified God (English translation in 1973) and Theology of Hope (English translation in 1967).
John Polkinghorne is former President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Among his publications are The Polkinghorne Reader: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning (edited by Thomas Jay Oord, 2010), Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (2007) and Reason and Reality: The Relationship between Science and Theology (1991).
Russell Re Manning is the Lord Gifford Fellow in Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen and co-convenor of the Boyle Lectures. His publications include The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (2013), New Varieties of Natural Theology (2013) and The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich (2009).
Keith Ward is Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a former Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London. Among his publications are Why There is Almost Certainly a God: Doubting Dawkins (2008), The Big Questions in Science and Religion (2008) and Religion and Human Nature (1998).

Preface
JONATHAN BOYLE, Earl of Cork and Orrery
Chairman of the Boyle Lecture Trustees
On behalf of the trustees of the Boyle Lectures, I am delighted to introduce this collection of essays by ten distinguished scholars