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Issues in Science and Religion (1966) is a book by [[Ian Barbour]], originally published by [[Prentice Hall]]. According to [[PBS]], it "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of [[Relationship between science and religion|science and religion]]." <ref name=PBS1>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june99/barbour_bio.html |title=The PBS Online Newhour <small> May 28, 1999 </small> |accessdate=2008-06-30}}</ref> |
Issues in Science and Religion (1966) is a book by [[Ian Barbour]], originally published by [[Prentice Hall]]. According to [[PBS]], it "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of [[Relationship between science and religion|science and religion]]." <ref name=PBS1>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june99/barbour_bio.html |title=The PBS Online Newhour <small> May 28, 1999 </small> |accessdate=2008-06-30}}</ref> |
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Issues in Science and Religion (1966) is a book by Ian Barbour, originally published by Prentice Hall. According to PBS, it "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of science and religion." [1]
Contents
The book is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the history of science and religion, the second with the methods of science and religion, and the third with the issues themselves--e.g. chapters on "Physics and Indeterminacy," "Life and Mind," "Evolution and Creation," and "God and Nature."
Discussion of philosophy and theology
Barbour provides introductions to several schools of philosophy--positivism (i.e., empiricism[2]), linguistic analysis, existentialism, as well as process philosophy--and theology--neo-orthodoxy as well as liberalism--in order to give the reader knowledge enough to understand how relations between science and religion look from these distinct viewpoints. [3] Other related schools of thought discussed by Barbour include Determinism[2]), Idealism[2] , Metaphysics[2] , Naturalism[2] , Natural theology[2] , Critical realism[2] , Naive realism[2] , Reductionism[2] , and Roman Catholicism[2] .
Discussion of science topics
Several specific, non-philosophical areas of science are employed in the discussion. These include Astronomy[2], molecular biology[2], Chemistry[2], Cybernetics[2], Evolution[2], Atomic physics[2], Classical physics[2], Psychology[2], Relativity[2], and Social sciences[2].
Objects of discussion
Several specific concepts and objects are brought up in the dicussion generally along with summaries of significant criticisms. These include Christ[2], Role of the Community[2], Principle of complementarity[2], Ethics[2], Problem of evil[2], Role of Experiment[2], Role of theory[2], Freedom[2], concept of God[2], interpretation of history[2], Imagination[2], Indeterminacy and Novelty[2], Involvement of the knower[2], Levels[2], status of man[2], Mind[2], Models[2], Providence[2], Religious experience[2], Revelation[2], Scripture[2], Symbols[2], Time[2], Uniqueness and Lawfulness[2], Verification[2], and properties of wholes[2].
Quotes
In a section titled Man as Perfectible by Reason Barbour writes (pages 62-64)
The men of the Enlightenment were confident of the power of reason not only in science and in religion but in all human affairs.[4] ... Science was to be the great liberator--not the enslaver of man as in recent novels (for example, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World). ... Far from being an age of skepticism, this was an age of great faith--in man and his capcities. Nature, God, and man were all approached in the same rationalistic spirit.
Reviews
- Review: David Ray Griffin, Zygon, volume 23, issue 1, March 1988, pages 57-81
Ian Barbour, "A Respone to David Griffin" Zygon, volume 23, issue 1, March 1988, p. 83-88
- Review: G. D. Yarnold, The Journal of Religion, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1968, pages 181-189
- Review: E. L. Marscall, Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 18, 1967, pages 542-543
- Review: TLS (Times Literary Supplement), March 23 1967, page 249
- Review: American Journal of Physics, Volume 36, Issue 6, 1968, pages 562-563.
References
- ^ "The PBS Online Newhour May 28, 1999 ". Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at Issues in Science and Religion (1966), Index of Selected Topics, page 464
- ^ Issues in Science and Religion (1966), page 115
- ^ Here Barbour has a footnote to Ernst Cassier, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, 1951.