Introducing Science and Religion: A Path through Polemic

by Gillian K. Straine

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2014

Overview

This useful book offers a toolkit for those who believe in God and science, and have a desire to hold them together with integrity. Examining the history of the interaction between science and religion, Gillian Straine looks at biblical and theological ideas and the key areas of science, such as the origin of the universe, evolution, and human consciousness. In this way, she equips readers to decide which path they will take through these crucial debates. Such paths offer ways of balancing both a serious and nuanced understanding of science with a lively, rational, and questioning faith in God that takes the Bible seriously.

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Key Features

• Helps to bridge the gap in the debate between science and religion
• Equips readers to better understand how areas of science interact with biblical ideas
• Provides explanations to show that science and religion are not conflicting

Contents

• What Is Science?
• What Is Religion?
  • The Bible
  • Reason
  • Tradition
  • Religious Experience
• History
  • Beginnings
  • The Greek World
  • What the New Testament Can Tell Us
  • The Patristic Period
  • The Middle Ages
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • The Enlightenment
  • Darwin and the Idea of Evolution
• Conflict
  • The Differences—Where We Focus Our Attention
  • A History of “Conflict”?
  • The New Atheist
  • Creationism
  • Intelligent Design
• Interrelationships
  • Who Is God?
  • Independence
  • Dialogue
  • Integration
• Some Big Topics
  • The Big Bang and the Origin of the Universe
  • Evolution and How to Explain the Variety of Life
  • Quantum Mechanics and the World of the Very Small
  • Consciousness and the Mystery of Our Souls

Praise for the Print Edition

The science and religion debate is one of the most significant conversations going on in contemporary society. Gillian Straine has laid out the grammar of this conversation with remarkable clarity, enabling any of us to understand and engage with the issues at stake. We need interpreters of science and followers or religion who have good minds, a love of the language and an ability to speak fluently. Gillian Straine is all of these. We sit at the feet of a true linguist.

—John Pritchard, bishop, Oxford

Product Details

• Title: Introducing Science and Religion: A Path through Polemic
• Author: Gillian K. Straine
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 168
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Religion and science; Body, mind & spirit › Gaia & Earth Energies; Religion › Christianity--General
• ISBNs: 9780281068739, 9780281068746, 0281068739, 0281068747
• Resource ID: LLS:NTRDCNGSCNCRLGN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:57:51Z

About Gillian K. Straine

Gillian K. Straine was born and raised in Aberdeen. She completed a bachelor of science in Physics at Imperial College London in 2000. Her doctoral research explored the radiative properties of the atmosphere and involved flying in planes around storm systems. Having worked in various roles in London churches, she trained for the priesthood, studying theology at Oxford University, before serving her curacy in the Oxford Diocese. Gillian currently lives in London with her family, working as priest without portfolio, writing on science and theology.