Ne Maps for Old Explorations in Science and Religion [Hardcover]

This collection of eleven essays, written jointly by the authors, argues that science and religion should be seen as mutually enriching worldviews with no need of reconciliation. The essays are organised in three parts, which deal with the definition and development of the concept of metaphoric process and its implications for illuminating what it means to understand something, the exploration of the so-called bidisciplinary dialogue, and the differences and similarities between studying science and religion respectively.

Mary Gerhartis former Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.

Allan Melvin Russellwas Emeritus Professor of Physics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.

Introduction: Mapping Science and Religion Together
I. Metaphoric Process: Reforming Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science
1. The Role of Metaphoric Process in the Development of Cognitive Complexity
2. Modeling Metaphoric Process
3. Metaphoric Process as the Tectonic Reformation of Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science
4. Sublimation of the Goddess in the Deitic Metaphor of Moses
II. Bidisciplinary Dialogue and Text in Science and Religion
5. The Genre Bidisciplinary Dialogue
6. A Scientist and a Theologian See the World: Compromise of Synthesis?
7. A Generalized Conception of Text Applied to Both Scientific and Religious Objects
III. Relating Science and Religion
8. Mathematics, Empirical Science and Theology
9. Limits of Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology as Resources for a Contemporary Theological Metaphysics  With Alternatives
10. Cog Is to Us As We Are to God
11. Myth and Public Science
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index