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Title Encyclopedia of science and religion / J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen, editor in chief
Published New York : Macmillan Reference USA, [2003]
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Contents volume 1. -- Abortion / Ann Pederson, William J. Watson -- Adaptation / Volker Loeschke -- Aesthetics / George Allan -- Age of the Universe / William R. Stoeger -- Aggression / Boje Katzenelson -- Algorithm / William A. Dembski -- Algorithmic Complexity / William A. Dembski -- Altruism / Colin Grant -- Animal Rights / Andrew Linzey -- Anthropic Principle / Michael A. Corey -- Anthropocentrism / Roald E. Kristiansen -- Anthropology / Paul K. Wason -- Anthropology of Religion / Paul K. Wason -- Apologetics / Paul Allen -- Aristotle / Edward Grant -- Art, Origins of / Paul K. Wason -- Artificial Intelligence / Noreen L. Herzfeld -- Artificial Life / Claus Emmeche -- Astronomy / George F.R. Ellis -- Astrophysics / George F.R. Ellis -- Atheism / John Haught -- Atomism / Dirk Evers -- Attractor / Wolfgang Achtner -- Augustine / Mathijs Lamberigts -- Automata, Cellular / Thiemo Krink -- Autopoiesis / Günter Thomas -- Averröes / Muzaffar Iqbal -- Avicenna / Muzaffar Iqbal -- Axiology / George Allan -- Bahá'í / Stephen R. Friberg -- Beauty / George Allan -- Behavioral Genetics / V. Elving Anderson, Audrey R. Chapman -- Behaviorism / Hans Schwarz -- Biblical Cosmology / Norriss Hetherington -- Big Bang Theory / Mark Worthing -- Big Crunch Theory / Mark Worthing -- Biological Diversity / Holmes Rolston, III -- Biology / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Biosemiotics / Claus Emmeche -- Biotechnology / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Black Hole / Mark Worthing -- Bohr, Niels / Henry J. Folse, Jr. -- Boundary Conditions / William A. Dembski -- Buddhism / Jensine Andresen -- Buddhism, Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion / Ronald Y. Nakasone -- Buddhism, History of Science and Religion / Naoki Nabeshima -- Butterfly Effect / Wolfgang Achtner -- Calvinism / E. David Willis -- Cartesianism / Anne A. Davenport -- Catastrophism / Arn O. Gyldenholm -- Causality, Primary and Secondary / Mariano Artigas -- Causation / Theo C. Meyering -- Chance / Keith Ward -- Chaos, Quantum / Wolfgang Achtner, Jens Noeckel -- Chaos, Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Denis Edwards -- Chaos Theory / Wolfgang Achtner, Taede A. Smedes -- Chemistry / David M. Knight -- Chinese Religions and Science / Hing Kau Yeung -- Chinese Religions, Confucianism and Science in China / Hing Kau Yeung -- Chinese Religions, Daoism and Science in China / Jiang Sheng -- Chinese Religions, History of Science and Religion in China / Hing Kau Yeung -- Christianity / Keith Ward -- Christianity, Anglican, Issues in Science and Religion / Stephen Sykes -- Christianity, Evangelical, Issues in Science and Religion / Alan G. Padgett -- Christianity, History of Science and Religion / Edward B. Davis -- Christianity, Lutheran, Issues in Science and Religion / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Christianity, Orthodox, Issues in Science and Religion / Alexei Nesteruk -- Christianity, Pentecostalism, Issues in Science and Religion / Amos Yong, Paul Elbert -- Christianity, Radical Reformed, Issues in Science and Religion / Christian Early, Nancey Murphy -- Christianity, Reformed, Issues in Science and Religion / E. David Willis -- Christianity, Roman Catholic, Issues in Science and Religion / George Coyne -- Christology / Hans Schwarz -- Clockwork Universe / Howard J. Van Till -- Cloning / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Closed Universe / Mark Worthing -- Cognitive Fluidity / Steven Mithen -- Coherentism / F. LeRon Shults -- Competition / Arn O. Gyldenholm -- Complementarity / K. Helmut Reich -- Complexity / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- Consciousness Studies / Joseph A. Goguen -- Constructivism / Günter Thomas -- Contextualism / Mikael Stenmark -- Contingency / Keith Ward -- Convergence / Simon Conway Morris -- Copenhagen Interpretation / John D. Barrow -- Cosmological Argument / David Manley -- Cosmology / Norriss Hetherington -- Cosmology, Physical Aspects / Robert John Russell -- Cosmology, Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Norriss Hetherington -- Created Co-Creator / Hubert Meisinger -- Creatio Continua / Keith Ward -- Creatio Ex Nihilo / Keith Ward -- Creation / Keith Ward -- Creationism / Howard J. Van Till -- Creation Science / Howard J. Van Till -- Critical Realism / Kees van Kooten Niekerk -- Culture, Origins of / Paul K. Wason -- Cybernetics / Marion Grau -- Cyborg / Anne Foerst -- Cyclical Universe / Mark Worthing -- Dao / James Miller -- Darwin, Charles / John Hedley Brooke -- Death / Duane H. Larson -- Deep Ecology / Roald E. Kristiansen -- Deism / Philip Clayton -- Descartes, René / Anne A. Davenport -- Design / Anna Case-Winters -- Design Argument / Anna Case-Winters -- Determinism / Taede A. Smedes -- Dharma / Harold Coward -- Disorder / Dirk Evers -- Dissipative Structure / William A. Dembski -- Divine Action / Thomas F. Tracy -- DNA / R. David Cole -- Double Agency / Thomas F. Tracy -- Downward Causation / Theo C. Meyering -- Dualism / Charles Taliaferro -- Ecofeminism / Anne Primavesi -- Ecology / Holmes Rolston, III -- Ecology, Ethics of / James A. Nash -- Ecology, Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Jay McDaniel -- Ecology, Science of / Stephanie Kaza -- Economics / Max L. Stackhouse -- Ecotheology / H. Paul Santmire -- Einstein, Albert / Max Jammer -- Embodiment / Catherine Keller -- Emergence / Philip Clayton -- Empiricism / Jerome A. Stone -- End of the World, Religious and Philosophical Aspects of / Richard Landes -- Entropy / Lawrence W. Fagg -- Epistemology / Paul D. Murray -- EPR Paradox / John D. Barrow -- Eschatology / William R. Stoeger -- Eternity / Luco J. van den Brom -- Ethnicity / Barbara A. Holmes -- Eugenics / Abigail Rian Evans -- Evil and Suffering / Keith Ward -- Evolution / Michael Ruse -- Evolutionary Algorithms / Gregory R. Peterson -- Evolutionary Epistemology / Tomas Hancil -- Evolutionary Ethics / Jeffrey P. Schloss -- Evolutionary Psychology / John A. Teske -- Evolution, Biocultural / Michael Ruse -- Evolution, Biological / Francisco J. Ayala -- Evolution, Human / Kenneth Mowbray, Ian Tattersall -- Evolution, Theology of / John Haught -- Exobiology / Steven J. Dick -- Experience, Religious : Cognitive and Neurophysiological Aspects / Andrew B. Newberg -- Experience, Religious : Philosophical Aspects / Matthew C. Bagger -- Explanation / Eberhard Herrmann -- Extraterrestrial Life / Steven J. Dick -- Faith / Eric O. Springsted -- Fall / Raymund Schwager -- Fallibilism / Mikael Stenmark -- Falsifiability / Mikael Stenmark -- Feminisms and Science / Lisa L. Stenmark -- Feminist Cosmology / Ann Pederson -- Feminist Theology / Ann Pederson -- Field / William R. Stoeger -- Field Theories / William R. Stoeger -- Fitness / Volker Loeschke -- Forces of Nature / Howard J. Van Till -- Foundationalism / F. LeRon Shults -- Freedom / Ted Peters -- Free Process Defense / Thomas Jay Oord -- Free Will Defense / Thomas Jay Oord, Matthew Henry -- Freud, Sigmund / William W. Meissner, S.J. -- Functionalism / Hubert Meisinger -- Fundamentalism / Martin E. Marty -- Gaia Hypothesis / John Cobb -- Galileo Galilei / William R. Shea -- Gene Patenting / Karen Lebacqz -- Genesis / Christopher B. Kaiser -- Gene Therapy / Brent Waters -- Genetically Modified Organisms / Donna M. McKenzie -- Genetic Defect / Brent Waters -- Genetic Determinism / Ted Peters -- Genetic Engineering / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Genetics / Ted Peters -- Genetic Testing / Brent Waters -- Geocentrism / Denis Edwards -- Geometry, Modern : Theological Aspects / Michael Heller -- Geometry : Philosophical Aspects / John C. Puddefoot -- Global Warming / Richard O. Randolph -- God / Philip Clayton -- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem / W.M
Priestley -- God, Existence of / Philip L
Quinn -- God of the Gaps / Ernest Simmons -- Gould, Stephen Jay / Michael Ruse -- Gradualism / Volker Loeschke -- Grand Unified Theory / William R. Stoeger -- Gravitation / George F.R. Ellis -- Greenhouse Effect / Richard O. Randolph -- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle / John D. Barrow -- Hermeneutics in Science and Religion / William J. Grassie -- Hierarchy / Gregory R. Peterson -- Hinduism / Harold Coward -- Hinduism, Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion / Harold Coward -- Hinduism, History of Science and Religion / Klaus K. Klostermaier -- Historical Criticism / Claude Welch -- Holism / Christopher Southgate -- Holy Spirit / Hans Schwarz -- Hope / George Newlands -- Human Ecology / Susan Powers Bratton -- Human Genome Project / Ted Peters -- Humanism / Brad Allenby -- Human Nature, Physical Aspects / Michael L. Spezio -- Human Nature, Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Jan-Olav Henriksen -- Hume, David / David Raynor -- Hypothetical Realism / Tomas Hancil -- Idealism / Arne Grøn -- Imagination / Robert Cummings Neville -- Imago Dei / Gregory R. Peterson -- Immanence / Gregory R. Peterson -- Incarnation / John Haught -- Indeterminism / John D. Barrow -- Infinity / Anne A. Davenport -- Inflationary Universe Theory / George F.R. Ellis -- Information / John C. Puddefoot -- Information Technology / John C. Puddefoot -- Information Theory / John C. Puddefoot -- Intelligent Design / Howard J. Van Till -- Islam / Osman Bakar -- Islam, Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion / Bruno Guiderdoni -- Islam, History of Science and Religion / Alnoor R. Dhanani
volume 2. -- Judaism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Judaism, Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion / Laurie Zoloth -- Judaism, History of Science and Religion, Medieval Period / Gad Freudenthal -- Judaism, History of Science and Religion, Modern Period / Norbert M. Samuelson -- Kant, Immanuel / Frederick Gregory -- Karma / Harold Coward -- Kenosis / John Haught -- Lamarckism / Peter M.J. Hess -- Language / Terrence W. Deacon -- Laws of Nature / Yuri V. Balashov -- Level Theory / Gregory R. Peterson -- Liberation / John J. Thatamanil -- Liberation Theology / John W. de Gruchy -- Life after Death / Jan Bremmer -- Life, Biological Aspects / Holmes Rolston, III -- Life, Origins of / Kai Finster -- Life, Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Holmes Rolston, III -- Life Sciences / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Locality / John D. Barrow -- Maimonides / David B. Burrell -- Many-worlds Hypothesis / W. Michael Dickson -- Materialism / Max Jammer -- Mathematics / W.M. Priestley -- Medical Ethics / Alfred I. Tauber -- Medicine / Harold G. Koenig -- Meditation / Ernest Simmons -- Memes / Mary Midgley -- Mendel, Gregor / Richard C. Weikart -- Metaphor / Mary Gerhart, Allan M. Russell -- Metaphysics / Jitse M. van der Meer -- Millenialism / Richard Landes -- Mind-body Theories / Stephen Priest -- Mind-brain Interaction / Stephen Priest -- Miracle / William Lane Craig -- Missing Link / Ian Tattersall -- Mitochondrial Eve / Michael Ruse -- Models / Lou Ann G. Trost -- Modernity / Michael Welker -- Monism / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Monotheism / Philip Clayton -- Morality / Rodney L. Petersen -- Mutation / R. David Cole -- Mystical Experience / Jensine Andresen -- Mysticism / Jensine Andresen -- Mystics / Jensine Andresen -- Myth / Marcelo Gleiser -- Naturalism / Willem B. Drees -- Naturalistic Fallacy / Ulrik B. Nissen -- Naturalized Epistemology / Andy F. Sanders -- Natural Law Theory / Ulrik B. Nissen -- Natural Theology / Keith Ward -- Nature / Ulrik B. Nissen -- Nature versus Nurture / Holmes Rolston, III -- Neo-Darwinism / Volker Loeschke -- Neural Darwinism / John A. Teske -- Neurophysiology / Warren S. Brown -- Neuropsychology / Warren S. Brown -- Neurosciences / Warren S. Brown -- Neurotheology / Palmyre M.F. Oomen -- New Physics / William R. Stoeger -- Newton, Isaac / Stephen D. Snobelen -- Nonfoundationalism / F. LeRon Shults -- Nuclear Energy / Richard O. Randolph -- Omega Point Theory / Mark Worthing -- Omnipotence / Luco J. van den Brom -- Omnipresence / Luco J. van den Brom -- Omniscience / Luco J. van den Brom -- Ontological Argument / David Manley -- Ontology / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Open Universe / Mark Worthing -- Order / Jitse M. van der Meer -- Paleoanthropology / Ian Tattersall -- Paleontology / Ian Tattersall, Kenneth Mowbray -- Panentheism / David H. Nikkel -- Pantheism / Nancy Frankenberry -- Paradigms / Antje Jackelén -- Paradox / James E. Loder -- Phase Space / W. Michael Dickson -- Philosophy of Religion / Anders Jeffner -- Philosophy of Science / Alisa Bokulich -- Philosophy of Science, History of / Alisa Bokulich -- Physicalism, Reductive and Nonreductive / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Physics / Howard J. Van Till -- Physics, Classical / Howard J. Van Till -- Physics, Particle / John Polkinghorne -- Physics, Quantum / W. Michael Dickson -- Placebo Effect / Howard Brody -- Planck Time / John D. Barrow -- Plato / George H. Rudebusch -- Playing God / Ted Peters -- Pluralism / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Pneumatology / Sigurd Bergmann -- Positivism, Logical / Roger Trigg -- Postfoundationalism / F. LeRon Shults -- Postmodernism / Graham Ward -- Postmodern Science / F. LeRon Shults -- Pragmatism / Eberhard Herrmann -- Prayer and Meditation / Fraser Watts -- Primatology / Gregory R. Peterson -- Process Thought / Thomas Jay Oord -- Progress / Michael Ruse -- Providence / Thomas F. Tracy -- Psychology / Fraser Watts -- Psychology of Religion / K. Helmut Reich -- Punctuated Equilibrium / Arn O. Gyldenholm -- Quantum Cosmologies / John D. Barrow -- Quantum Field Theory / John D. Barrow -- Quantum Vacuum State / Niu Shi-wei -- Realism / Roger Trigg -- Reductionism / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Reincarnation / Harold Coward -- Relativity, General Theory of / George F.R. Ellis -- Relativity, Special Theory of / Howard J. Van Till -- Religion and Values, Origins of / Holmes Rolston, III -- Religion, Theories of / Matthew C. Bagger -- Reproductive Technology / Suzanne Holland -- Revelation / Christopher C. Knight -- Ritual / Hans J.L. Jensen -- Robotics / Anne Foerst -- Sacramental Universe / Matthew Fox -- Sacraments / Duane H. Larson -- Schrödinger's Cat / John D. Barrow -- Science and Religion / Robert John Russell, Kirk Wegter-McNelly -- Science and Religion, History of Field / John Hedley Brooke -- Science and Religion in Public Communication / Stacey A. Ake, Adrian M. Wyard -- Science and Religion, Methodologies / Gregory R. Peterson -- Science and Religion, Models and Relations / Ian Barbour -- Science and Religion, Periodical Literature / Karl Giberson -- Science and Religion, Research in / Christopher Southgate -- Science Fiction / Noreen L. Herzfeld -- Science, Origins of / Peter Harrison -- Science Wars / Niels Viggo Hansen -- Scientism / Mikael Stenmark -- Scopes Trial / George E. Webb -- Scriptural Interpretation / Kurt Anders Richardson -- Selection, Levels of / Michael Ruse -- Self / Léon Turner, Fraser Watts -- Selfish Gene / Mary Midgley -- Self-organization / Palmyre M.F. Oomen -- Self-reference / James E. Loder -- Self-transcendence / Brian L. Lancaster -- Semiotics / Michael L. Raposa -- Shinto / Masakazu Hara -- Sin / Ted Peters -- Singularity / George F.R. Ellis -- Skyhooks / Holmes Rolston, III -- Sociobiology / Michael Ruse -- Sociology / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Soul / Charles Taliaferro -- Space and Time / Jennifer L. Trusted -- Special Divine Action / Thomas F. Tracy -- Special Providence / Charles Taliaferro -- Spirit / John A. Teske -- Spirituality / Claire E. Wolfteich -- Spirituality and Faith Healing / Jensine Andresen -- Spirituality and Health / Jensine Andresen -- Spirituality and the Practice of Science / Peter Van Ness -- Steady State Theory / Mark Worthing -- Stem Cell Research / Suzanne Holland -- String Theory / William R. Stoeger -- Supernaturalism / Graham Ward -- Superstrings / William R. Stoeger -- Supervenience / Theo C. Meyering -- Symbiosis / Jeffrey P. Schloss -- Symmetry / Yuri V. Balashov -- Systems Theory / Kathia Castro Laszlo -- T = 0 / Mark Worthing -- Tacit Knowledge / Andy F. Sanders -- Technology / Frederick Ferré -- Technology and Ethics / Frederick Ferré -- Technology and Religion / Frederick Ferré -- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre / Ludovico Galleni -- Teleological Argument / William A. Dembski -- Teleology / Keith Ward -- Theism / Philip Clayton -- Theodicy / Ulf Görman -- Theological Anthropology / Jan-Olav Henriksen -- Theology / Robert Cummings Neville -- Theology, Theories of / Robert Cummings Neville -- Thermodynamics, Second Law of / William R. Stoeger -- Thinking Machines / Thiemo Krink -- Thomas Aquinas / Edward Grant -- Time : Physical and Biological Aspects / Dirk Evers -- Time : Religious and Philosophical Aspects / Peter Øhrstrøm -- Transcendence / Ernest Simmons -- Transmigration / Ernest Simmons -- Truth, Theories of / Arne Grøn -- Turing Test / Thiemo Krink -- Two Books / Peter M.J. Hess -- UFO / Ted Peters -- Unpredictability / Dirk Evers -- Upward Causation / Theo C
Meyering -- Value / George Allan -- Value, Religious / Robert Cummings Neville -- Value, Scientific / Frederick Ferré -- Value, Value Theory / George Allan -- Virtual Reality / Anne Foerst -- Wave-particle Duality / John D. Barrow -- Whitehead, Alfred North / Thomas Jay Oord -- Womanist Theology / Barbara A. Holmes -- Worldview / Mikael Stenmark -- Xenotransplantation / Donna M. McKenzie
v. 1. A-I -- volume 2. J-Z
Summary A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Examines controversial issues such as human cloning and stem cell research long with more traditional questions such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion. 4 volumes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Religion and science -- Encyclopedias
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Religion and science.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Form Electronic book
Author Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel (Jacobus Wentzel), 1942-
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