Issues in Science and Theology: Nature - and Beyond

Introduction/Preface (Michael Fuller, University of Edinburgh, UK).- Chapter 1. History and Evolution in Pannenberg and Lonergan (Paul Allen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada).- Chapter 2. Revisioning the Anthropocene in a Trinitarian frame: A theological response to Clive Hamilton's Defiant Earth (Ian Barns).- Chapter 3. Nature - and Beyond? Immanence and Transcendence in Science and Religion (Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology, USA).- Chapter 4. The Ecological Significance of God's Transcendence? (Ernst M. Conradie, University of the Western Cape, South Africa).- Chapter 5. Awe and wonder in scientific practice: Implications for the relationship between science and religion (Helen De Cruz, Oxford Brookes University, UK).- Chapter 6. Why I am a science-inspired naturalist but not a philosophical naturalist nor a religious naturalist (Willem B. Drees, Tilberg University, The Netherlands).- Chapter 7. A Contingency Interpretation of Information Theory as a Bridge between God's Immanence and Transcendence (Philippe Gagnon, Université Catholique de Lyon, France).- Chapter 8. Divine Determination or Dynamic Indeterminacy? Transcendence, Immanence, and the Problem of Personal Identity (Janna Gonwa, Yale University, USA).- Chapter 9. Friluftsliv: Aesthetic and psychological experience of wilderness adventure (Mark Graves, Helga Synnevåg Løvoll and Knut-Willy Sæther, Volda University College, Norway).- Chapter 10. The Twin Truths of Divine Immanence and Transcendence: Creation, laws of nature and human freedom (Lydia Jaeger, Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne, France).- Chapter 11. Early Modern Natural Philosophy Allied with Revealed Religion: Boyle and Whiston (Roomet Jakapi, University of Tartu, Estonia).- Chapter 12. Radical Transcendence and Radical Immanence: Convergence between Eastern Orthodox Perspectives and Strong Theistic Naturalism? (Christopher C. Knight, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK).- Chapter 13. The Cosmos

Michael Fuller has taught science and theology at the University of Edinburgh since 1998. He is the author of a monograph and numerous articles dealing with the interface of science and religion, and he has edited numerous symposia relating to this subject. He is a former Chair of the UK Science and Religion Forum, and Vice-President for Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. He is an Anglican Priest, a Canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, and for 15 years he was Pantonian Professor at the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church. His research interests include ethical issues raised by new and emerging sciences.