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SCIENCE & RELIGION

BIBLIOGRAPHY & RESOURCES


By Joshua Moritz (Revised on May 10, 2016)

I. GENERAL CONCERNS (BROAD PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES)


A. What is Science?
1. History of science: where does science come from, how did it emerge, and when does it begin?
Web Resources
Video: David Allard, “Perspectives on Science: History, philosophy and ethics of science in post-16 education”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/751635/751639.m4v
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/751635/751653.m4v
Video: John Hedley Brooke, “The Historical Roots of Modern Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1771203/1771208.m4v
Video: William Carroll, "The Scientific Revolution and Discourse on Science-and-Religion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xB_i2F_q5Y&list=PL2E380DB19DD2B7D0
Video: James Hannam, “Galileo and Medieval Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=746ZoqrJ9Bk
Video: James Hannam, “The Medieval Foundations of Modern Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBUHdA-FG0
Video: Peter Harrison, "Religious Origins of Modern Science"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mTlhN-WuU
Video: Peter Harrison, “Why does the History and Philosophy of Science Matter?”
http://www.testoffaith.com/resources/resource.aspx?id=694
Video: John L. Heilbron, “Historical Myths About Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxkxCSyP60Y
Video: Peter Hodgson, “The Origin of Modern Science”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cosmcrea/hodg-frame.html
Article: James Hannam, “The Medieval World and the Foundations of Science”
http://jameshannam.com/
Article: James Hannam, “Rediscovering the Science of the Middle Ages”
http://biologos.org/blog/rediscovering-the-science-of-the-middle-ages

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-James Hannam, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (Regnery
Publishing, 2011)
-Lawrence M. Principe, The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Intermediate Level
-Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
-Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1970)
-David Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science: the European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and
Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
-Stephen F. Mason, A History of the Sciences (Collier Books, 1962)
Advanced Level
-Peter Bowler and John Pickstone, eds. The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
-John Heilbron, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (Oxford University Press, 2003)
-Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University
Press, 2007)
-Alexander Jones, ed., Ancient Science (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
-Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (Harvard University
Press, 1992)
-David Lindberg, Robert Westman, eds. Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
-David Lindberg and Michael Shank, eds. Medieval Science (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
-David Lindberg and Mary Jo Nye, ed. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
-Margaret J. Osler, Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
-Katharine Park, and Lorraine Daston, eds. Early Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
-Roy Porter, ed. Eighteenth Century Science (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
-Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross, eds. The Modern Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
-Richard S. Westfall, The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 1977)

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2. Philosophy of science: what counts as genuine “science” and what does not?
Web Resources
-Video: David Albert “Where Philosophy Meets Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDgh6tFpUt0
-Video: David Allard, “Perspectives on Science: History, philosophy and ethics of science in post-16 education”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/751635/751639.m4v
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/751635/751653.m4v
-Video: Peter Harrison, “Why does the History and Philosophy of Science Matter?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tVcjc4mpc
-Video: Brian David Josephson, “What is Science?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2471
-Video: “Why Philosophy of Science?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/series/why-philosophy-science?view_mode=overlay
-Video: Jeremy Butterfield “Physics and Philosophy”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1719140/1719145.m4v
-Video: Philip Clayton vs Daniel Dennett - Philosophy, Science, and Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-I_9e5qxnc

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Philip Clayton, “Philosophy of Science: What One Needs to Know,” Zygon 32 (1997): 99-108
-Paul Helm, “Is there a Preferred Philosophy of Science for Christians?” Science and Christian Belief 2:1 (April 1990)
-Samir Okasha, Very Short Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Intermediate Level
-Robin Collins, “Contributions from Philosophy of Science,” in Zachary Simpson & Philip Clayton eds., Oxford Handbook for
Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, 2008), 328–344
-Steve Fuller, Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Columbia University Press, 2004)
-Peter Godfrey-Smith, Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
-Nancey Murphy “The Role of Philosophy in the Science/Religion Dialogue” in A Science and Religion Primer, Heidi Campbell
and Heather Looy, eds. (Baker Academic, 2009)
-Gijsbert van den Brink, Philosophy of Science for Theologians (Peter Lang, 2009)
-J.A. Curd, Martin Cover, and Christopher Pincock, Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues (W. W. Norton, 1998)
-Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening (Cambridge University Press, 1983)
-Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (MIT Press, 1982)
Advanced Level
-Martin Curd and Stathis Psillos, eds. Companion to Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2013)
-Steven French and Juha Saatsi, eds. Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Continuum, 2011)
-Lydia Jaeger, Einstein, Polanyi, and the Laws of Nature (Templeton Press, 2010)
-William H. Newton-Smith, ed. A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell, 2000)
-Joseph Rouse, Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science (Cornell University Press, 1987)

3. Epistemology, rationality, and hermeneutics: how does science know things and how does one
properly interpret science?
Web Resources
-Video: Denis Alexander “Truth Telling in the Practice of Science’
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1266574/1266578.m4v
-Video: Michael Brooks “Science and Religion in Science Journalism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1273948/1273952.m4v
-Video: Philip Clayton, “Explanation in Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293359/1293363.m4v
-Video: Allan Chapman “The Historical Roots of Scientific Reductionism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1290909/1290913.m4v
-Video: Philip Clayton: “How Can Emergence Explain Reality?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWclhC7WmE
-Audio: Peter Harrison, “The Doctrine of the Fall and the Epistemological Foundations of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR166%20Peter%20Harrison.mp3
-Video: Roger Trigg, “The Rationality of Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Roger%20Trigg%20Rationality.mov
-Video: Roger Trigg, “Rationality in Science and Faith”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1691788/1691793.m4v

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Published Resources
Introductory Level
-René van Woudenberg “Limits of Science and the Christian Faith,” Science and Christian Belief 24:2 (October 2012)
-Antje Jackelen, “Science and Religion: Getting Ready for the Future,” Zygon 38: 2 (June 2003): 209-28
Intermediate Level
-Philip Clayton, Explanation from Physics to Theology: An Essay in Rationality and Religion (Yale University Press, 1989)
-Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, The Shaping of Rationality: Toward Interdisciplinarity in Theology and Science (Eerdmans, 1999)
- Simon Shaffer and Steven Shapin, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton
University Press, 1985)
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. Objectivity (MIT Press, 2007)
Advanced Level
-Robert P. Crease, ed., Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997)
-Antje Jackelen, The Dialogue Between Religion and Science: Challenges and Future Directions (Pandora Press, 2004)
-Stathis Psillos, Scientific realism: How Science Tracks Truth (Routledge, 1999)
-Kenneth A. Reynhout, Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Theology and Science
-Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, and George V. Coyne, eds. Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Common Quest for
Understanding (University of Notre Dame Press, 1988)
-Calvin O. Schrag, The Resources of Rationality: A Response to the Postmodern Challenge, Studies in Continental Thought
(Indiana University Press, 1992)
-F. LeRon Shults, The Evolution of Rationality: Interdisciplinary Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Eerdmans, 2007)

4. Scientific authority and limitations of the scientific method: what are the limits of scientific inquiry?
Web Resources
-Video: Interview with various scientists and theologians: “The Faith of Scientists”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/scifaith-topics.html?b=cqinterv/scifaith-body.html
-Video: Philip Clayton, “Explanation in Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293359/1293363.m4v
-Video: Tim O’Connor “Discerning Purpose at the Limits of Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1160736/1160746.m4v
-Video: Owen Gingrich: “What are the scope and limits of science?” “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2269
-Video: Bas C. van Fraassen: “What are the scope and limits of science?” “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3157
-Video: John Richard Gott III: “What are the scope and limits of science?” “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2287
-Video: Stephen Wolfram: “What are the scope and limits of science?” “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3684
-Video: Martin Rees: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4062
-Video: Brian D. Josephson: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2471
-Video: Raymond C. Tallis: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4261
-Video: David Deutsch: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2136
Video: Stuart Kauffman: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2509
-Video: John Polkinghorne: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3881
-Video: Leonard Mlodinow: “What are the scope and limits of science?”; “Can Science Provide Ultimate Answers?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2737
-Audio: Ian Hutchinson, “Monopolising Knowledge: A Refutation of Scientism”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR411%20Hutchinson.mp3
-Video: Ian Hutchinson, “Physics and Faith”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1162167/1162181.m4v
-Video: Ian Hutchinson, “Scientism: how much faith should we put in science?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1329651/1329656.m4v

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Published Resources
Introductory Level
- Mariano Artigas and Karl Giberson, Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus God and Religion (Oxford UP, 2006)
- Delvin Ratzsch, “The Nature of Science” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, ed. Melville Y. Stewart (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Delvin Ratzsch, Science and Its Limits (InterVarsity Press, 2000)
Intermediate Level
- Mikael Stenmark, Rationality in Science, Religion and Everyday Life: A Critical Evaluation of Four Models of Rationality
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1995)
- Nicholas Rescher, “Authority” in Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, ed. J. B. Stump and Alan Padgett
(Blackwell, 2012)
Advanced Level
- Mariano Artigas, The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion (Templeton Press, 1999)
- Mariano Artigas, Knowing Things for Sure: Science and Truth (University Press of America, 2006)
- John Dupre, Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Richard Olson, Science Deified and Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture (University of
California Press, 1982)
- Steven Shapin, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
5. Metaphysical presuppositions of science: what role do philosophical and theological assumptions play
within scientific theories and in the practice of science?
Web Resources
-Video: Philip Clayton, “Explanation in Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293359/1293363.m4v
-Video: Hans Halvorson, “Does the Universe need God?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1645638/1645643.m4v
-Video: Owen Gingerich, “Metaphysical assumptions in Science”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2265
-Video: Wentzel van Huyssteen, “Reasoning Strategies in Science and Religion”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3167
-Video: Paul Davies, “Reasoning Strategies in Science and Religion”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2080
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Lydia Jaeger, “The Idea of Law in Science and Religion,” Science & Christian Belief 20:2 (2008)
-Christopher B. Kaiser, “Early Christian Belief in Creation and the Beliefs Sustaining the Modern Scientific Endeavor” in
Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, ed. J. B. Stump and Alan Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)
- Joshua Moritz, Science and Religion: Beyond Warfare and Towards Understanding (Anselm Academic, 2016)
Intermediate Level
-Roy Clouser, The Myth of Religious Neutrality: An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2005)
-Edward B. Davis, “Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis Reconsidered,” in Evangelicals and Science in
Historical Perspective, eds. David Livingstone, D. Hart, and Mark Noll (Oxford University Press, 1999)
-Michael Foster, “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science” Mind 43 (1934): 446–468
-Steve Fuller, Science: The Art of Living (Acumen, 2010)
-Lydia Jaeger, What the Heavens Declare: Science in the Light of Creation (Wipf and Stock, 2012)
-Christopher Kaiser, Creation and the History of Science (Eerdmans, 1991)
-Roger Trigg, Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics (Templeton Press, 2015)
Advanced Level
-Mariano Artigas, The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion (Templeton Press, 2000)
-John H. Brooke, M.J. Osler, J.M. Van der Meer, eds. Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions. Osiris 16 (University of
Chicago Press, 2001)
-John Dupre, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Harvard University Press, 1995)
-Steve Fuller, Mikael Stenmark, Ulf Zackariasson, eds, The Customization of Science: The Impact of Religious and Political
Worldviews on Contemporary Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
-Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century (Princeton
University Press, 1986)
- Lydia Jaeger, Einstein, Polanyi, and the Laws of Nature (Templeton Press, 2010)
-Bradley Monton, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009)
- Jitse M. van der Meer, Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 2: The Role of Beliefs in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences: An
Augustinian Perspective (University Press of America, 1996)
- Jitse M. van der Meer, ed., Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 3: The Role of Beliefs in the Natural Sciences (University Press
of America, 1996)
-Martin Rudwick, Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

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6. Scientism: when does science overstep it bounds and become and exercise in faith?
Web Resources
-Video: Denis Alexander, “Transcending Dawkins' God: Renewing the Interface between Science and Faith”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1260980/1260984.m4v
-Video: David Bartholomew, “Victor Stenger's Scientific Critique of Christian Belief”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1081620/1081624.m4v
-Video: David Deutsch: “Scientism and the Limits of Science”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2136
-Video: Allan Chapman, “Why do scientific writers sometimes react irrationally when faced with religion?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1226892/1226896.m4v
- Video: Allan Chapman, “The Historical Roots of Scientific Reductionism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1290909/1290913.m4v
-Video: Lawrence Principe: “Scientism and the Religion of Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVARio4pAk
-Video: Bastiaan C. Van Frassen, “Science, Scientism, and the Public Good”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kYRcibo_d8
-Video: Daniel Robinson, “Science, Scientism, and the Public Good”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWHZfOGpn8
-Video: Peter Hacker, “Philosophy and Scientism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAFqo67yuU

Published Resources
Introductory Level
- John Haught, “Science and Scientism: The Importance of a Distinction,” Zygon 40 (2005): 363–368
- Gregory Peterson, “Demarcation and the Scientistic Fallacy,” Zygon 38:4 (Dec 2003)
- Delvin Ratzsch, “The Nature of Science” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, ed. Melville Y. Stewart (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Delvin Ratzsch, Science and Its Limits (InterVarsity Press, 2000)

Intermediate Level
- Robert Bolger, Kneeling at the Altar of Science: The Mistaken Path of Contemporary Religious Scientism (Wipf and Stock
Publishers, 2012)
-Ian Hutchinson, Monopolizing Knowledge (Fias Publishing, 2011)
-Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning (Routledge, 1992)
-Robert Almeder, Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy (Open Court, 1998)
-Mikael Stenmark, Scientism: Science, Ethics and Religion (Ashgate, 2001)
-Roger Trigg, Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics (Templeton Press, 2015)
Advanced Level
-John Dupre, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Harvard University Press, 1995)
-Bradley Monton, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009)
-Frederick A. Olafson, Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against Scientism (Routledge, 2001)
-Richard Olson, Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-century Europe (University of Illinois Press, 2008)
-Tom Sorell, Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science (Routledge, 1991)
-Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (Science and Cultural Theory) (Duke University Press, 2011)

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B. What are Religion and Theology as They Relate to Science?
1. Relating religion/theology and science: general introductions to the dialogue
Web Resources
-Video: John Bryant, “Science and Religion: An Overview”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/751298/751310.m4v
-Video: John Brooke, “The Changing Relations Between Science and Theology”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/brooke1-frame.html
-Video: Francis Collins, “The Language of God: A Believer looks at the Human Genome”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1229069/1229073.m4v
-Video: Rodney Holder-“Why should science even talk to religion?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/series/should-science-even-talk-religion#video-2423
-Video: Niels H. Gregersen
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2315
-Video: Christopher Southgate
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4149
-Video: John Polkinghorne “Science and Religion in Dialogue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dwe7rm4qHk
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “The Friendship of Science and Religion”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cosmcrea/polk-frame.html
-Video: Alister McGrath, “Conflict or mutual enrichment? Why science and theology need to talk to each other”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5xSgpq5Ig
-Video: Robert Russell “The Need for Dialogue”
http://www.counterbalance.org/far/rr2-body.html?b=transcript/srdlg-body.html
-Video: Robert Russell “The Complexity of the Dialogue”
http://www.counterbalance.org/far/rr3-body.html?b=transcript/srdlg-body.html
-Video: Robert Russell “The Value of Dialogue”
http://www.counterbalance.org/far/rr4-body.html?b=transcript/srdlg-body.html
-Video: Nancey Murphy “The Necessary Overlap Between Science and Theology”
http://www.counterbalance.org/far/nm2-body.html?b=transcript/srdlg-body.html

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Denis Alexander and Robert White. Science, Faith, and Ethics: Grid or Gridlock? (Hendrickson, 2004)
-Ian Barbour, When Science Meets Religion : Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? (SPCK, 2000)
-Philip Clayton, Religion and Science: The Basics (Routledge, 2011)
-Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
-Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1995)
-John Jefferson Davis, The Frontiers of Science & Faith. Examining Questions from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
(InterVarsity Press, 2002)
-Alister McGrath, Science and Religion: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2010)
-Joshua Moritz, Science and Religion: Beyond Warfare and Toward Understanding (Anselm Academic, 2016)
-John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale University Press, 1998)
-John Polkinghorne, Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion (Yale University Press, 2005)
-John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale, Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
(Westminster John Knox, 2009)
-J. Wetzel van Huysssteen and Khalil Chamcham, eds. The Templeton Science and Religion Reader (Templeton Press, 2012)
-Keith Ward, The Big Questions in Science and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Intermediate Level
-Denis Alexander, Rebuilding the Matrix: Science And Faith In The 21St Century (Lion, 2001)
-Ian Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (HarperSanFrancisco, 1998)
-Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science (Edinburgh University Press, 1997)
-Ted Peters, Science and Theology : the New Consonance (Westview Press, 1998)
-Ted Peters, and Gaymon Bennett, Bridging Science and Religion (Fortress, 2003)
-John Polkinghorne, The Faith of a Physicist (Princeton University Press, 1994)
-Holmes Rolston III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (Templeton Press, 2006)
Advanced Level
-Joshua Moritz, Research Perspectives in Science and Theology (Brill, 2017)
-Nancey Murphy, “Theology and Scientific Methodology.” Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, eds. Michael Peterson,
William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger. (Oxford University Press, 2007)
-Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming-Natural, Divine and Human (Fortress, 1993)
-Robert J. Russell, Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science (Fortress, 2008)
-Christopher Southgate, Celia Deane-Drummond, Paul D. Murray, God, Humanity and the Cosmos: A Textbook in Science and
Religion (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2011)

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2. Religion and science through history: how have science and religion interacted in the past?
Web Resources
-Video: Denis Alexander, “The Historical Background to the Science-Religion Debate”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293265/1293269.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 1”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1269560/1269564.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 2”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1269802/1269806.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Science vs Religion? The Origins of the Conflict Thesis”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1290145/1290149.m4v
-Video: John Hedley-Brooke - "Science & Secularisation: Where the Myths Lie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqQ5iu0A2E
-Video: John Brooke, “The Changing Relations Between Science and Theology”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/brooke1-frame.html
-Video: John Brooke, “Revisiting Darwin on Order and Design’
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/brooke2-frame.html
-Video: Allan Chapman, “Does the History of Science and Religion change depending on the Narrator? A Theist's View”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1248941/1248945.m4v
-Video: Edward B. Davis, “Why History Matters: Debunking the 'Warfare' View of Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1541467/1541472.m4v
-Video: James Hannam, “God's Philosophers: How the Mediaeval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/866809/866815.rm
-Video: James Hannam, “Science and Christianity: An historical sketch”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1073962/1073966.m4v
-Video: James Hannam, “Science and the Church in the Middle Ages”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBa7LN08mk
-Video: James Hannam, “Can science and religion get on? Some lessons from history”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1960032/1960037.m4v
-Video: Peter Harrison, “Religion and Science Throughout History”
http://www.testoffaith.com/resources/resources.aspx?resource=true&catid=13&id=171
-Video: Peter Harrison, "Science, Religion and the Enlightenment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp67uHdsPsQ
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “The Territories of Science and Religion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzN2t5mAzM
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxktaQy7Dw
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Fallen Knowledge”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4MZnpSCYM
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Science and Progress”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qndljts-EwY
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Science, Religion and Modernity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qC0D9N_ng
-Video: Peter Harrison, “The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Peter%20Harrison%202.mov
-Video: Peter Harrison, “The Religious Origins of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Peter%20Harrison%201.mov
-Audio: Peter Harrison, “The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Summer%20Course%202/FAR130%20Peter%20Harrison.mp3
-Audio: Peter Harrison, “The Doctrine of the Fall and the Epistemological Foundations of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR166%20Peter%20Harrison.mp3
Peter Harrison, “Religion and the Rise of Modern Science”
-Video: http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1555566/1555571.m4v
Articles
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Science-Versus-Christianity.html

Published Resources
Introductory Level
- Peter Harrison, “History of the Science and Religion Dialogue” in A Science and Religion Primer (Baker Academic, 2009)
- John Hedley Brooke, “The Changing Relations Between Science and Religion,” in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology
and Biological Evolution eds. Hilary Regan, Mark Worthing, and Nancey Murphy (Australian Theological Forum, 2002)
- Joshua Moritz, “The Scientific Revolution” in The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought, eds. Chad Meister and
James Beilby (Routledge, 2013)
- Alan Padgett, “Science and Religion in Western History: Models and Relationships,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, ed.
Melville Y. Stewart (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
-Ronald L. Numbers, ed. Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press, 2009)

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Intermediate Level
-Peter J. Bowler, Gorilla Trials and Monkey Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Harvard
University Press, 2007)
-Gary B. Ferngren, ed. Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
- Peter Harrison, “‘Science’ and ‘Religion’: Constructing the Boundaries,” in Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, & Stephen
Pumfrey, eds. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 23–49
-Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion, (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
-David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Advanced Level
-John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
-Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, and Stephen Pumfrey, eds. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
-Edward Grant, Science and Religion, 400 B. C. to A. D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Greenwood Press, 2004)
-Gary Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, & Darrel W. Amundsen, eds. The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition:
An Encyclopedia (Garland, 2000)
- Christopher Kaiser, Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science (Brill, 1997)
- David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science
(University of California Press, 1986)
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church : Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- Richard Olson, Science and Religion, 1450–1900: From Copernicus to Darwin (Greenwood Press, 2004)
- Margaret J. Osler, Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern
Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
- Margaret J. Osler, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the
Created World (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- Helge Kragh, Entropic Creation : Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (Ashgate, 2008)

3. Origins of Religious Belief/ Scientific study of religion: what can we know about the origins and
nature of religion through paleoanthropology, cultural anthropology, cognitive science of religion, and
evolutionary psychology?
Web Resources
-Video: Justin Barrett, “Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUbRn9H2ac
-Video: Justin Barrett, “Are People Born to Believe in God?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltB0WOVE444
-Video: Justin Barrett and Paul Bloom, “Why Do So Many People Believe in God?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqCRwkak-TU
-Video: Justin Barrett, “Born Believers: The Naturalness of Childhood Theism”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR245%20Barrett.mov
-Video: Justin Barrett, “The Evolution of Religious Brains”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/651435/651439.m4v
-Video: Justin Barrett, “The Nature of Childhood Theism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/653021/653025.m4v
-Video: Justin Barrett, “Psychology and religious belief”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1800457/1800462.m4v
-Video: Justin Barrett, “Are People Born to Believe?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1827118/1827123.m4v
-Video: Malcolm Jeeves, “Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRfSIrL7WA
-Video: Jeff Schloss, “The Evolution of Religion and the Religion of Evolution”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1267294/1267298.m4v
-Video: Jeff Schloss, “Can Biology Explain Religion?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1227896/1227900.m4v
-Video: Jeff Schloss, “Naturalistic Explanations of Religion: Explaining or Explaining Away?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1230526/1230530.m4v
-Video: Cara Wall-Scheffler, “Human Anthropology and the Origins of Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1571546/1571551.m4v
-Video: Cara Wall-Scheffler, “The Origins of Humanity: Cultural and Religious Development”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1781053/1781058.m4v
-Video: Kelly James Clark, “The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Rationality of the Religious Belief”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxMNqw0FYQ

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Published Resources
Introductory Level
- Justin Barrett, “Toward a Cognitive Science of Christianity,” in J. Stump and A. Padgett. eds., Blackwell Companion to Science
and Christianity, (Blackwell, 2012) 319-334
- Justin Barrett, Born Believers: The Science of Childhood Religion (Free Press, 2012)
- Justin Barrett, Why Would Anyone Believe in God (AltaMira, 2004)
-Nancey Murphy and Jeffrey Schloss, “Biology and Religion,” in Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology, ed. Michael
Ruse ( Oxford University Press, 2008), 545-569
-Jeffrey Schloss and Michael Murray “Evolutionary Accounts of Belief in Supernatural Punishment: A Critical Review” ,
Religion, Brain & Behavior , 1 (2011): 46–99
-Jeffrey Schloss and Michael Murray, “ Evolution and Theism,” In S. Goetz and C. Taliaferro, eds., Routledge Companion to
Theism (Routledge , 2016)
-David S. Whitley, Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and Belief (Prometheus Books, 2009)

Intermediate Level
- Justin Barrett, Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds (Templeton Press, 2012)
- James Van Slyke, The Cognitive Science of Religion (Ashgate, 2011)
- Jeffrey Schloss and Michael Murray, eds. The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the
Origin of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Elliott Sober, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998)
- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Eerdmans, 2006)
-Robert McCauley, Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Gregory Peterson, Minding God : Theology and the Cognitive Sciences (Fortress, 2003)
-David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

Advanced Level
-Robert Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Harvard University Press, 2011)
-R. Bulbulia , E. Sosis , R. Harris , C. Genet , and K. Wyman, eds., The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, & Critiques
(Collins Foundation Press, 2008)
-Helen de Cruz and Johan De Smedt, A Natural History of Natural Theology: The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy
of Religion (MIT Press, 2015)
-Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Antje Jackelen, and Taede Smedes, Is Religion Natural? (T & T Clark, 2012)
-Ulrich Frey, ed., Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Philosophy: Evolution and Religion (Verlag, 2010)
-Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University
Press, 1993)
-Robert McCauley and Thomas Lawson, Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (Oxford
University Press, 2002)
-Kevin Schilbrack, Philosophy and the Study of Religions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
-Todd Tremlin, Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006)
-Eckart Voland and Wulf Schiefenhövel eds., The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior (Springer, 2009)
-Fraser Watts and Léon P. Turner, eds. Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science : Critical and Constructive Essays (Oxford
University Press, 2014)
-Harvey Whitehouse, and Robert McCauley, eds. Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
(AItaMira, 2005)

4. Sociology of religion, religious belief, and practice: how do the social sciences understand religion
and how do polls and social science surveys help us understand current religious dynamics?
Web Resources
-Video: Elaine Howard Ecklund, “The Religious Beliefs of Scientists - a Sociological Analysis”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1223078/1223082.m4v
-Video: Rodney Stark, “The End of Religion?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OE8drIFeE
-Video: Philip Jenkins, “The End of Religion?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT470hJdaEY
-Video: Rodney Stark, “The Marketing Approach to Understanding Religion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxfy3XOY9cI

Published Resources
Introductory Level
- John Evans and Michael Evans, “Sociology and Christianity” in Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, J. B. Stump
and Alan Padgett, eds. (Blackwell, 2012)
-Richard Roberts, Theology and the Social Sciences, in David Ford, ed. The Modern Theologians (Blackwell, 2005) 370–380
-Rodney Stark, Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief (Harper Collins, 2007)

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Intermediate Level
-Nancy Ammerman, Jackson Carroll, Carl Dudley, and William McKinney, Studying Congregations: A New Handbook
(Abingdon Press, 1998)
-Richard Perkins, Looking Both Ways: Exploring the Interface between Christianity and Sociology (Baker, 1987)
-Rodney Stark, For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
(Princeton University Press, 2003)
Advanced Level
-Anthony Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, and Jean Duhaime, Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches (Altamira,
2002)
-David E. Long, Evolution and Religion in American Education: An Ethnography (Springer, 2011)
-Thomas Indinopulos and Edward Yonan, eds. Religion & Reductionism: Essays on Eliade, Segal, & the Challenge of the Social
Sciences for the Study of Religion (Brill, 1993)
-Rodney Stark and Charles Glock, American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment (University of California Press, 1968)
-Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2004)

5. Sources of Theological Authority: how do scripture, ecclesial tradition, reason, and experience serve as
authoritative sources for theology as it engages with the natural sciences?
Web Resources
-Video: Interview with various scholars: “Literal and Symbolic Truths”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/litsym-topics.html?b=cqinterv/litsym-body.html
Science and the Bible: Discerning Intention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7kZNAT9rU
-Video: Richard Hess, “Can We Trust the Old Testament?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvFhnKZbkWk
-Video: Eleonore Stump “The second-personal and the transmission of knowledge through testimony”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_oY2HSQkA
-Video: NT Wright, “Can a Scientist Trust the New Testament - Part 1”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpH4r93fGZs
-Video: NT Wright, “Can a Scientist Trust the New Testament - Part 2”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE61H9S3ahc
-Video: Kathryn Tanner, “Intersection of Religion and the Rationality of Religious Belief”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QLFZ3kP0eQ
-Video: Andrew Briggs, “The Search for Evidence-Based Reality”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-NqMv06PE

Published Resources
Introductory Level
- Craig Blomberg, Can We Still Believe the Bible (Baker, 2014)
- William P. Brown, The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder (Oxford, 2010)
- Kelly Clark, "Without Evidence or Argument: A Defense of Reformed Epistemology" in Reason and Responsibility: Readings
in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-Landau, eds. (Cengage Learning, 2008)
- Joshua Moritz, “The Hermeneutics of Science and Scripture and Emergent Levels of Meaning,” Theology & Science 12:1
(2014)
- Alvin Plantinga, Knowledge and Christian Belief (Eerdmans Publishing, 2015)
- N.T. Wright, “How Can The Bible Be Authoritative?” Vox Evangelica 21 (1991) 7–32

Intermediate Level
-William P. Brown, ed. Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture (Westminster John Knox, 2007)
-Mark A. Noll, Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America (Harper & Row, 1987)
-Jaroslav Pelikan, Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages (Penguin, 2005)
-Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds., Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God (University of Notre Dame
Press, 1983)
-Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, eds. Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Baker
Academic, 2005)

Advanced Level
-William P. Alston, Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cornell University Press, 1991)
-Robert Audi, Rationality and Religious Commitment (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Meredith G. Kline, The Structure of Biblical Authority (Eerdmans, 1972)
- Jitse M. van der Meer, Scott Mandelbrote, eds, Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: God, Scripture and the Rise
of Modern Science (1200-1700) (Brill, 2008)
-N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (SPCK, 1992)

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6. Theological Method vs. Scientific Method: what are the parallels and differences?
Web Resources
-Video: Interview with various scholars: “What Science Can Learn From Religion?”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/rel2sci-topics.html?b=cqinterv/rel2sci-body.html
-Video: Interview with various scholars: “What Religion Can Learn From Science?”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/sci2rel-topics.html?b=cqinterv/sci2rel-body.html
-Video: Daniel Harrell, “A Pastor Reflects on the Scientific Method”
http://biologos.org/resources/multimedia/daniel-harell-a-pastor-reflects-on-the-scientific-method
-Video: Tom Simpson, "The Nature of Scientific and Religious Belief"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_9jxvw1Uw
-Video: Wentzel van Huyssteen, “New Models of the Science and Theology Dialogue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqCH8aOXCDA
-Video: Niels Gregersen, “The Role of Thought Experiments in Science and Theology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lU4PAvLN4
-Video: Ted Peters, “New Models of the Science and Theology Dialogue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bii9R9-Pq6E

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Ian G. Barbour, When Science Meets Religion (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000)
-John R. Franke and Stanley J. Grenz, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context (Westminster John
Knox Press, 2001)
-Niels Gregersen, “Critical realism and other realisms,” In Robert J. Russell, ed., Fifty years in science and religion. Ian G.
Barbour and his legacy (Ashgate, 2004)
-Stanley J. Grenz, “Why do theologians need to be scientists?” Zygon 35:2 (2000) 331-356
-Andreas Losch, “On the origins of critical realism,” Theology and Science 7:1 (2009), 85–106
-Alister E. McGrath, The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology (T & T Clark, 2004)
Intermediate Level
-Ian G. Barbour, Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion (Harper & Row, 1974)
-Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp, The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith (Oxford University Press, 2012)
-Willem B. Drees, Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
-Dirk Evers, Antje Jackelen, Taede Smedes, How Do We Know?: Understanding in Science and Theology (T&T Clark, 2010)
-Niels Gregersen, and J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen, eds. Rethinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue
(Eerdmans, 1998)
-Stanley Jaki, The Road of Science and the Ways to God (University of Chicago Press, 1980)
-Alister E. McGrath, The Order of Things: Explorations in Scientific Theology (Wiley, 2008)
-Nancey Murphy, Theology for an Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell University Press, 1990)
-Alan G. Padgett, Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science (Eerdmans, 2003)
-Kevin Sharpe, Science of God: Truth in the Age of Science (Rowan and Littlefield, 2006)
-F. LeRon Shults, The Postfoundationalist Task of Theology (Eerdmans, 1999)
Advanced Level
- Paul Allen and Ernan McMullin, Critical Realism in the Science-theology Dialogue (Ashgate, 2006)
-George V. Coyne and Michael Heller, A Comprehensible Universe: The Interplay of Science and Theology (Springer, 2008)
-Shaun Henson, God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology (Routledge, 2013)
-Alister E. McGrath, Scientific Theology: Reality (Eerdmans, 2002)
-Sallie McFague, Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology (Fortress Press, 1975)
-Ernan McMullin, “Realism in theology and science: A response to Peacocke,” Religion and Intellectual Life 2:4 (1985) 39–47
-Joshua Moritz, Research Perspectives in Science and Theology (Brill, 2017)
-Mark A., Noll, ed. Princeton Theology 1812–1921: Scripture, Science, and Theological Method from Archibald Alexander to
Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield (Baker, 2001)
-Ted Peters and Nathan Hallanger, God's Action in Nature's World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell (Ashgate, 2006)
-Arthur Peacocke, Intimations of reality: Critical realism in science and religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 1984)
-W. Mark Richardson and Wesley J. Wildman, eds. Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue (Routledge, 1996)
-Robert J. Russell, Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science (Fortress, 2008)
-Mikael Stenmark, How to Relate Science and Religion: A Multidimensional Model (Eerdmans, 2004)
-Thomas F. Torrance, Theological Science (Oxford University Press, 1969)
-J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen, Essays in Postfoundationalist Theology (Eerdmans, 1997)

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II. BIBLICAL STUDIES AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES

1. Biblical Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences: how does one properly interpret the Bible
in light of scientific knowledge?
Web Resources
-Video: John Bimson, “Interpreting the Creation Narratives in Genesis 1-3”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1557926/1557931.m4v
-Video: Richard Hess, “God and Origins: Interpreting the Early Chapters of Genesis”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1209006/1209010.m4v
-Video: Ernest Lucas, “God and Origins: Interpreting the Early Chapters of Genesis”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR139%20Lucas.mov
-Video: Ard Louis, “Interpreting Genesis”
http://biologos.org/resources/multimedia/ard-louis-on-interpreting-genesis
-Video: John Walton, “Genesis Through Ancient Eyes”
http://biologos.org/resources/multimedia/origins-today-genesis-through-ancient-eyes
-Video: Gordon Wenham, “Interpreting Genesis 1-11”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Gordon%20Wenham.mov
-Video: N.T. Wright, John Polkinghorne, Allister McGrath, Nancey Murphey “Science and Genesis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKa92eLkQM
-Video: NT Wright and Peter Enns “Jesus, Paul, Adam and Hermeneutics”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKLZgx2ttOc
-Video: N.T. Wright, John Polkinghorne, Allister McGrath, John Walton and others “Science and Genesis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKa92eLkQM
-Video: David Bentley Hart, “How ancient Christians read the Bible”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QPNvri-zxs
-Video: David Wehham, “Science and the Bible: Discerning Intention”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7kZNAT9rU
-Blog: Book Review: “Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters”
http://biologos.org/blog/series/genesis-history-fiction-or-neither-three-views-on-the-bibles-earliest-chapt

Published Resources
Introductory Level
- William P. Brown, The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder (Oxford University Press,
2010)
-Ardel Caneday, Matthew Barrett, and Stanley N. Gundry, eds. Four Views on the Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013)
-D. J. A. Clines, “Biblical Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice,” Christian Brethren Review 31, 32 (1982): 65-76.
-Charles Halton, ed. Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?: Three Views on the Bible's Earliest Chapters (Zondervan, 2015)
-Deborah B. Haarsma, Loren D. Haarsma, Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (Faith
Alive Christian Resources, 2011)
-Peter Harrison, “The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science,” Science & Christian Belief 18:2 (October 2006)
-W. J. Larkin, “Culture, Scripture’s Meaning and Biblical Authority: Critical Hermeneutics for the 90’s,” Bulletin for Biblical
Research 2 (1992) 171-178
-Ernest C. Lucas, “A Biblical Basis for the Scientific Enterprise,’” in D. R. Alexander, ed. Can we be sure about anything? :
Science, Faith and Postmodernism (IVP, 2005), 49-68
-Scott Mandelbrote, “Early Modern Biblical Interpretation and the Emergence of Science,” Science & Christian Belief 23: 2
(2011)

Intermediate Level
-James Barr, Biblical Faith and Natural Theology (Clarendon Press, 1993)
-Peter C. Bouteneff, Ancient Christian Readings of the Creation Narratives (Baker, 2008)
-S. C. Barton, and David Wilkinson, eds. Reading Genesis After Darwin (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Peter Enns, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament (Baker, 2005)
-Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
-Conrad Hyers, The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science (John Knox Press, 1984)
-Tremper Longman III, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan Publishing House, 1987)
-Stanley Porter, ed. Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation (Routledge, 2007)
-Stanley Porter, Matthew Malcolm, eds. The Future of Biblical Interpretation: Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
(InterVarsity Press, 2013)
-Stanley E. Porter, Beth M. Stovell and Craig Blomberg, eds. Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views (IVP Academic, 2012)
-Bernard Ramm, The Christian View of Science and Scripture (Eerdmans, 1964)

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Advanced Level
-Nathan Aviezer, In the Beginning: Biblical Creation and Science (Ktav, 1990)
-Stephen M. Barr, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith (Notre Dame University Press, 2003)
-John Dillenberger, Protestant Thought and Natural Science: A Historical Interpretation (Greenwood, 1977)
-Stephen Finamore and John Weaver, eds. Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas (Regents
Park College Publications, 2012)
-W. Robert Godfrey, God's Pattern For Creation: A Covenantal Reading of Genesis 1 (R&R Publishing, 2003)
-Francis Oakley, Omnipotence, Covenant, and Order: An Excursion in the History of Ideas from Abelard to Leibniz (Cornell
University Press, 1984)

2. The Biblical Creation Account and Scientific Descriptions of Cosmic Origins:


2.1 How does Genesis 1-2 compare with other Ancient Near Eastern Cosmogonies?
Web Resources
-Video: John Walton, “Understanding Genesis”
http://biologos.org/resources/multimedia/john-walton-on-understanding-genesis
-Video: John Walton, “Understanding the Creation Narrative in Context”
http://biologos.org/resources/multimedia/john-walton-on-understanding-the-creation-narrative-in-context
-Video: N.T. Wright “Understanding Adam and Eve”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BP1PpDyDCw

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Richard Carlson and Tremper Longman III, Science, Creation and the Bible: Reconciling Rival Theories of Origins (IVP, 2010)
-Richard J. Clifford, Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph
Series 26. (The Catholic biblical Association of America, 1994)
-Richard S. Hess, “Genesis 1-2 and Recent Studies of Ancient Texts,” Science & Christian Belief 7:2 (October 1995)
-Richard S. Hess, “God and origins: interpreting the early chapters of Genesis” in Darwin, Creation, and the Fall: Theological
Challenges, eds. R. J. Berry and Thomas Noble (Apollos, 2009)
-James K. Hoffmeier, Gordon John Wenham, Kenton Sparks, Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?: Three Views on the Bible’s
Earliest Chapters (Zondervan, 2015)
-Ernest C. Lucas, Can We Believe Genesis Today? (IVP, 2001)
-Ernest C. Lucas, “Science and the Bible: Are They Incompatible?” Science & Christian Belief 17:2 (October 2005)
-John Soden and Johnny Miller, In the Beginning…We Misunderstood Interpreting Genesis 1 in Its Original Context (Kregel
Publications, 2012)
-John Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate (InterVarsity Press, 2015)
-John Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (IVP Academic, 2010)

Intermediate Level
-Gerhard Hasel, “The Polemic Nature of the Genesis Cosmology,” Evangelical Quarterly 46 (1974)
-Terence Fretheim, God and the World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation (Abingdon Press, 2010)
-John Sailhamer, Genesis Unbound: A Provocative New Look at the Creation Account (Multnomah, 1996)
-Eric M. Vail, Creation and Chaos Talk: Charting a Way Forward (Wipf and Stock, 2012)
-Howard Van Till, Robert E. Snow, and John H. Stek, Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives on the World's
Formation (Eerdmans, 1990)
-John H. Walton and D. Brent Sandy, The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority (IVP, 2013)

Advanced Level
-Richard J. Fischer, Historical Genesis: From Adam to Abraham (University Press of America, 2008)
-Hermann Gunkel, Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton (Eerdmans, 2006)
-John Sailhamer, The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary (Zondervan, 1992)
-Mark S. Smith, The Priestly Vision of Genesis I (Fortress 2010)
-David Tsumura, “Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction,” in I Studied Inscriptions
from Before the Flood: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11, eds. Richard Hess and
David Tsumura (Eisenbrauns, 1994)
-David Tsumura, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation (A&C Black, 1989)
-David Tsumura, Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory in the Old Testament (Eisenbrauns, 2005)
- John Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible
(Baker, 2006)
-John Walton, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Eisenbrauns, 2011)
-Gordon Wenham, Genesis. 1-15 (Word Books, 1987)
-Gordon Wenham, "Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story," Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies 9
(1986), 19-25.
-Gordon Wenham, Rethinking Genesis 1- 11: Gateway to the Bible (Wipf and Stock, 2015).

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2.2 What is the meaning of the “days” of Genesis 1?
Web Resources
-Video: Richard Hess, “God and Origins: Interpreting the Early Chapters of Genesis”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1209006/1209010.m4v
-Video: Ernest Lucas, “God and Origins: Interpreting the Early Chapters of Genesis”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR139%20Lucas.mov
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-David G. Hagopian, ed. The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation (Crux Press, 2001)
-Richard S. Hess, “Genesis 1-2 in its Literary Context,” Tyndale Bulletin 41:1 (1990)
-Jack P. Lewis “The Days of Creation: An Historical Survey of Interpretation,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
32 (December 1989)
-John Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (IVP Academic, 2010)
-Ronald Youngblood, ed. The Genesis Debate: Persistent Questions About Creation and the Flood (Baker Book House, 1990)
Intermediate Level
-Jack Collins, “Discourse Analysis and the Interpretation of Gen 2:4-7,” Westminster Theological Journal 61 (1999) 269-76
-Mark Futato, “Because It Had Rained: A Study of Gen 2:5-7 With Implications for Gen 2:4-25,“ Westminster Theological
Journal 60 (1998), 1-21
-Bruce Waltke, "The Creation Account in Genesis 1:1-3; Part III: The Initial Chaos Theory and the Precreation Chaos Theory,"
Bibliotheca Sacra 132 (1975), 225-228
-David Tsumura, Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory in the Old Testament (Eisenbrauns, 2005)
-Davis Young, Creation and the Flood: An Alternative to Flood Geology and Theistic Evolution (Baker, 1974)
Advanced Level
-Bruce K. Gardner, The Genesis Calendar The Synchronistic Tradition in Genesis 1-11 (University Press of America, 2001)
-Bryan Hodge, Revisiting the Days of Genesis: A Study of the Use of Time in Genesis 1-11 in Light of Its Ancient Near Eastern and
Literary Context (Wipf & Stock, 2011)
-Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary, Old Testament Library (Westminster, 1972)
-John Walton, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Eisenbrauns, 2011)
-Gordon Wenham, Rethinking Genesis 1- 11: Gateway to the Bible (Wipf and Stock, 2015).

3. Biblical Creation and the Evolutionary Origins of Life:


3.1 How should one understand Biblical accounts of the creation of life in light of evolution?
Web Resources
- Video: Denis Alexander, “Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1653444/1653449.m4v
- Video: John Brryant, “Creation or Evolution?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1279905/1279909.m4v
- Video: Alister McGrath, “What are we to make of Adam & Eve?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL5su0zmpKM
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “Evolution and Scripture”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlJ7Bt3oxE
-Video: N.T. Wright and others, “Adam and Evolution”-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTaRVDv30xQ
-Video: N.T. Wright, “Evolution and the Bible”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPCTnGMRFM
-Video: William Carroll, “Does modern science disprove creation?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoP4PToTAnQ

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-John F. Haught, Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God and the Drama of Life (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010)
- J. P. Moreland and John Mark Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Zondervan, 1999)
-Norman C. Nevin (ed.) Should Christians Embrace Evolution? Biblical and scientific responses (IVP, 2009)
-John Polkinghorne, “Scripture and an Evolving Creation,” Science and Christian Belief 21(2009) 163–173
-Gerald Rau, Mapping the Origins Debate: Six Models of the Beginning of Everything (IVP Academic, 2012)
Intermediate Level
-Mary Kathleen Cunningham, ed. God and Evolution: A Reader (Routledge, 2007)
-Mark Harris, The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science (Routledge, 2014)
-Kelly James Clark, Religion and the Sciences of Origins: Historical and Contemporary Discussions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
-Mark A. Noll, & D. N. Livingstone, eds. Evolution, Science and Scripture (Baker, 2000)
-Tatha Wiley, Creation and the Conflict over Evolution (James Clarke, 2009)

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Advanced Level
-Gennaro Auletta, Marc Leclerc, and Rafael A. Martínez, Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories. A Critical Appraisal 150
Years After ‘The Origin of Species’ (Gregorian, 2010)
-W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths (Eisenbrauns, 2013)

3.2 How should one understand Noah’s Flood and what role did the Flood play in Earth history?
Web Resources
Davis Young and Ralph Stearley, “The Bible, Rocks, and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth” - Parts 1-6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wDl1o6BFFU&list=PL69217E31EFE31B7F
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-D. J. A. Clines, “Noah's Flood: The Theology of the Flood Narrative,” Faith and Thought 100 (1972-73): 128-42
-Davis Young, “Nineteenth century Christian geologists and the doctrine of scripture,” Christian Scholar's Review 11(1982)
212-228
-Davis Young, “Scripture in the hands of geologists, parts 1 & 2,” Westminster Theological Journal 49 (1987)1-34 & 257-304

Intermediate Level
-David R. Montgomery, The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012)
-Martin Rudwick, The Meaning of Fossils, 2nd ed, (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985)
-Davis Young, The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidence (Eerdmans, 1995)
-Davis Young, Christianity and the Age of the Earth (Zondervan, 1982)
Advanced Level
-Adrian Desmond, Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982)
-Martina Kölbl-Ebert, Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility (Geological Society of London, 2009)
-Martin Rudwick, Earth's Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
-Ralph F. Stearley and Davis A. Young, The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth (IVP, 2008)

4. Miracles and the Bible


Web Resources
-Video: Alan Padgett, “The Role of God in Modern Science: Models for Relating Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1252666/1252670.m4v
-Audio: Colin Humphreys, “Can Scientists Believe in Miracles?”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/CIS/humphreys/mp3/Humphrey_lecture.mp3
-Video: Colin Humphreys, “Science and the question of miracles”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1262707/1262711.m4v
-Video: Douglas Lauffenburger, “Cancer and Cures, Medicine and Miracles”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1854507/1854512.m4v
-Video: Joshua Moritz, “Does God Really Act?”
https://vimeo.com/41753716
-Video: Keith Ward, “Miracles and the Laws of Nature”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQ76XqxEmk
-Video: Keith Ward, "Do the Laws of Nature Exclude Miracles?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L63NEWRxUuY
-PDF: Stephen Williams, “Biblical Miracles and Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR409%20Williams.pdf
Published Resources
-C. John Collins, The God of Miracles: an Exegetical Examination of God’s Action in the World (Crossway, 2000)
-Colin Humphreys, The Miracles of Exodus (Zondervan, 2009)
-Craig S. Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. Volumes 1 and 2 (Baker Academic, 2011)
-Craig S. Keener, "The Dead Are Raised" (Matthew 11:5 // Luke 7:22): Resuscitation Accounts in the Gospels and Eyewitness
Testimony” Bulletin for Biblical Research 25:1 (2015)
-Robert Larmer, Water into Wine? An Investigation of the Concept of Miracle (McGill-Queen’s UP, 1995)
-Bradley Monton, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design (Broadview Press, 2009)
-Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
-David Wenham and Craig Blomberg, eds. Gospel Perspectives: The Miracles of Jesus (Wipf and Stock, 2003)

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5. The Human Person in Scripture
5.1 How do evolutionary theories of human origins relate to Adam and Eve?
Web Resources
-Video: Alister McGrath, “What are we to make of Adam & Eve?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL5su0zmpKM
-Video: Ernest Lucas, “Genesis and Evolution”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Lucas%20Genesis%20SC7.mov
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Who Are We? Biblical and theological perspectives on what it means to be human”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1654882/1654887.m4v
-Video: Joshua Moritz, “The Creation and Evolution of Life Part II”
https://vimeo.com/40337990
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Ian Barbour, Nature, Human Nature and God (Fortress Press, 2002)
-Matthew Barrett and Ardel B. Caneday, ed., Four Views on the Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013)
-R. J. Berry, “Adam or Adamah?” Science & Christian Belief 23 (2011)
-C. John Collins, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?: Who They Were and Why You Should Care (Crossway, 2011)
-A. Day, “Adam, anthropology and the Genesis record,” Science & Christian Belief 10 (1998) 115- 143
-Helen De Cruz and Yves De Maeseneer, “The imago dei: evolutionary and theological perspectives” Zygon 49:1(2014)
-Daniel Harlow, “After Adam: Reading Genesis in an Age of Evolutionary Science,” Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith
62:3 (Sept 2010): 179-195
-Denis Lamoureux, John H. Walton, C. John Collins, William D. Barrick, Gregory A. Boyd, Philip G. Ryken, Four Views on the
Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013)
-Joshua Moritz, “Evolutionary biology and theological anthropology,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological
Anthropology, Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro, eds. (Ashgate, 2015)
-Joshua Moritz, “The Search for Adam Revisited: Evolution, Biblical Literalism, and the Question of Human Uniqueness”
Theology and Science 9: 4 (2011)
-Richard N. Ostling, “The Search for the Historical Adam,” Christianity Today (June 2011): 23 - 27
-John Schneider, “Recent Genetic Science and Christian Theology on Human Origins: An ‘Aesthetic Supralapsarianism’”
Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith 62:3 (Sept 2010): 196-212
-John Walton, The Lost World of Adam and Eve: : Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate (InterVarsity Press, 2015)
Intermediate Level
-James Barr, The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality (Fortress, 1992)
-R. J. Berry and T.A. Noble, eds. Darwin, Creation and the Fall – Theological Challenges (Apollos, 2009)
-Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins (Baker Books, 2012)
-Christopher Hays and Stephen Lane Herring, “Adam and the Fall,” in Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical
Criticism, Christopher Hays and Christopher Ansberry eds. (Baker Academic, 2013) 24–54
-John W. Cooper, “Created for Everlasting Life: Can Theistic Evolution Provide an Adequate Christian Account of Human
Nature?” Zygon 48 (2013) 479–95
-David Fergusson, “Humans Created According to the Imago Dei: An Alternative Proposal,” Zygon (2014): 439-53
-Christopher L. Fisher, Human Significance in Theology and the Natural Sciences: An Ecumenical Perspective with Reference to
Pannenberg, Rahner, and Zizioulas (Pickwick, 2010)
-Noreen Herzfeld, In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (Fortress Press, 2002)
-J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, “Human Origins and Religious Awareness,” Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology 59:2
(2005)
-Joshua Moritz, “Human Uniqueness, the Other Hominids, and ‘Anthropocentrism of the Gaps’ in the Religion and Science
Dialogue,” Zygon 47:1 (March 2012): 65-96
-Gregory R. Peterson, “The Evolution of Consciousness and the Theology of Nature,” Zygon 34:2 (June 1999)
-F. Leron Shults, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality (Eerdmans, 2003)
Advanced Level
-Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Hans Madueme and Michael Reeves, eds., Adam, the Fall and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical and Scientific Perspectives
(Baker Academic, 2014)
-Christoph Schwöbel and Colin Gunton eds. Persons, Divine and Human: King’s College Essays in Theological Anthropology (T
& T Clark, 1991)
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, trans. Matthew J. O'Connell (T & T Clark, 1999),
-J. Wentzel van Huysteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Eerdmans, 2006)
-Wesley J. Wildman, Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life
(Ashgate, 2009)
-Malcolm Jeeves, ed. Rethinking Human Nature: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Eerdmans, 2011)
-Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Hans Madueme and Michael Reeves, eds., Adam, the Fall and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical and Scientific Perspectives
(Baker Academic, 2014)

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5.2 What is the nature of the human person? Is body/soul dualism biblical? Is body/soul
dualism scientific?
Web Resources
- Video: Kenneth Miller, Laurie Santos and David Sloan Wilson, “Does evolution explain human nature?”
http://www.templeton.org/evolution/yale-discover-panel.html
- Video: Joel B. Green, “On Doing Without a Soul: A New Testament Perspective”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDqm9rCq2M0
- Video: Joel B. Green, “Sacred & Neural”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vFrZnsRR20
- Video: Nancey Murphy, “Getting Mind out of Meat”
http://www.counterbalance.org/evp-mind/index-frame.html
- Video: Andrew Newberg: A Neuropsychological Analysis of Religious Experience
http://www.counterbalance.org/neurotheo/newb-body.html?b=events/mont601-body.html
- Video: Palmyre Oomen: On Brain, Soul, Self, and Freedom: An Essay in Bridging Neuroscience and Faith
http://www.counterbalance.org/neurotheo/oomen-body.html?b=events/mont601-body.html
- Video: James Fowler III: Faith Stages and Cognitive-Neural Complexity: Possibilities for Modeling and Measuring?
http://www.counterbalance.org/neurotheo/fowler-body.html?b=events/mont601-body.html
- Video: David Ray Griffin: Scientific Naturalism, the Mind/Body Relation, and Religious Experience
http://www.counterbalance.org/neurotheo/drg-body.html?b=events/mont601-body.html
- Video: Joshua Moritz, “Human Nature, Neuroscience, and the Soul”
https://vimeo.com/42876711
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Ray Anderson, “Theological Anthropology” in Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology, ed. Gareth Jones (Blackwell, 2004)
-R. J. Berry and Malcolm Jeeves, “The Nature of Human Nature” Science and Christian Belief, 20:1 (April 2008) 3–47
-Phyllis A. Bird, “Theological Anthropology in the Hebrew Bible,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible, ed. Leo G.
Perdue (Blackwell, 2001)
- Joel B. Green, Body, Soul and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (Baker Academic, 2008)
- Joel B. Green. In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem, rev. ed. (InterVarsity, 2005)
-Malcolm Jeeves, “Human nature without a soul?” European Review 12:1 (2003)
-Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge, 2006)
-Lawson G. Stone, “The Soul: Possession, Part, or Person? The Genesis of Human Nature in Genesis 2:7” in What About the
Soul?: Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology, ed. Joel B. Green (Abingdon, 2004)
-John Turl, “Substance Dualism or Body-Soul Duality?” Science and Christian Belief 22 (2010) 57–80
Intermediate Level
- Warren S. Brown, Nancey Murphy and H. Newton eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul?: Scientific and Theological Portraits
of Human Nature (Fortress, 1998)
-Kelly Bulkeley, ed. Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science (Palgrave Macmillan,
2005)
-John Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate (Eerdmans, 1989)
-Georg Gasser, ed., Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death (Ashgate, 2010)
-Joel B. Green, ed. What About the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology (Abingdon, 2004)
-Stanley Grenz, Theology for the Community of God (Eerdmans, 2000)
-R. S. Hess, “The Distinctive Value of Human Life in Israel’s Earliest Legal Traditions,” in The Ancient Near East in the 12th–
10th Centuries BCE: Culture and History, Gershon Galil, Ayelet Gilboa, Aren M. Maeir, and Dan’el Kahn eds., (Ugarit-Verlag,
2012) 221-28
-Malcolm Jeeves, Human Nature: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity (Templeton Press, 2006)
-Malcolm Jeeves, Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience (InterVarsity, 2013)
-Malcolm Jeeves, ed. From Cells to Souls – And Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature (Eerdmans, 2004)
-F. Leron Shults, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality (Eerdmans, 2003)
-Keith Ward, More than Matter? What Humans Really Are (Lion Hudson, 2010)
Advanced Level
-David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford University Press, 1996)
-William Hasker, The Emergent Self (Cornell University Press, 1999)
-Malcolm Jeeves, Rethinking Human Nature: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Eerdmans, 2011)
- J. P. Moreland and Scott Rae, Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics (IVP Academic, 2000)
-Nancey Murphy, George Ellis, Timothy O'Connor, Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will (Springer, 2009)
-Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, and Michael Arbib, Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action, ed. (Vatican Observatory and CTNS, 1999)
-Christoph Schwöbel and Colin Gunton, eds. Persons, Divine and Human: King’s College Essays in Theological Anthropology (T
& T Clark, 1991)
-Hans Walter Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament (Fortress, 1974)
-N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Fortress, 2003)

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5.3 How does the Bible understand the physical body and the bodily resurrection?
Web Resources
- Video: N.T. Wright, “The Resurrection”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqc7--CaCpM
- Video: N.T. Wright, “Did Jesus really rise from the dead?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnkNKIJ_dnw
- Video: N.T. Wright, “History and Interpretation in the Resurrection Narratives of the Canonical Gospels?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciCLodA9Fc4
-Video: N.T. Wright, “Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vjguF8Kpw
-Video: N.T. Wright, “Can a Scientist Believe the Resurrection?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1206473/1206477.m4v
-Video: N.T. Wright, “Rethinking Life After Death”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZC6tbgpsl4
-Video: N.T. Wright, “Death, Resurrection, and Afterlife”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAc_x_egk4
-Video: Robert John Russell, “Cosmology, Creation and Redemption”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7EXSJSo7x8 ethics
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Robert H. Gundry, “The Essential Physicality of Jesus' Resurrection according to the New Testament,” in J. B. Green and M.
Turner, eds., Jesus of Nazareth Lord and Christ: Essays on the Historical Jesus (Eerdmans, 1994)
-Alan G. Padgett, “The Body in Resurrection: Science and Scripture on the 'Spiritual Body’ (1 Cor 15:35-58),” Word & World
22:2 (Spring 2002)
-Ted Peters, “The Physical Body of Immortality,” in Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2003)
-N. T Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (HarperOne, 2008)
Intermediate Level
-Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart, Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium (Eerdmans,
1999)
-John W. Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the. Monism-Dualism Debate (Eerdmans, 1989)
-Kevin Corcoran, Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul (Baker, 2006).
-Stephen T. Davis, Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection (Eerdmans, 1993)
-Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall, Gerald O'Collins, The Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of
Jesus (Oxford University Press, 1997)
-Joel B. Green, “Eschatology and the Nature of Humans: A Reconsideration of Pertinent Biblical Evidence” Science & Christian
Belief 14:1 (April 2002) 33-50
-Joel B. Green, Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (Baker Academic, 2008)
-Ted Peters, Robert J. Russell & Michael Welker, eds. Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments (Eerdmans, 2002)
-Gerald O'Collins, Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental and Systematic Examination of Christ's Resurrection (Paulist Press,
1987)
Advanced Level
-Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity (Columbia University Press, 1995)
-James H. Charlesworth, ed. Resurrection: The Origin and Future of a Biblical Doctrine (T & T Clark, 2006)
-Oscar Cullmann, Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament (Macmillan, 1964)
-Paul Foster, “The Hebrew Bible/LXX and the Development of Ideas on Afterlife in Matthew” in Life Beyond Death in
Matthew’s Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality, eds. W. Wren, H. van de Sandt, J. Ve rheyden (Peeters, 2011)
-Robert H. Gundry, Soma in Biblical Theology: With Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
-George W. E. Nickelsburg, Resurrection, Immortality and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism (Harvard University Press,
2006)
-N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3. (Fortress, 2003)

5.4 What does it mean for humans to be made in the “image of God”?
Web Resources
- Video: David Cook, “What are the ethical implications implied by the Imago Dei doctrine?’
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1250338/1250342.m4v
- Video: Graeme Finlay, “Human Genetics and the Image of God”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1208800/1208804.m4v
- Video: Joshua Moritz “What does it mean to be human?”
https://vimeo.com/41244016
- Video: Joshua Moritz “The End of Human Uniqueness and the Election of the Image of God”
https://vimeo.com/22540440
- Video: Keith Ward “Are humans special?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6Lpm-3ZUU

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Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Phyllis A. Bird, “Theological Anthropology in the Hebrew Bible,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible, ed. Leo G.
Perdue (Blackwell 2001) 260-261
-David J. A. Clines, “The Image of God in Man,” Tyndale Bulletin 19 (1968)
-Marc Cortez, Theological Anthropology, A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark International, 2010)
-R. S. Briggs, “Humans in the image of God,” Journal of Theological Interpretation 4:1 (2010)
-J. Richard Middleton, “The Liberating Image? Interpreting the Imago Dei in Context,” Christian Scholars Review 24:1 (1994):
8 -25
-Joshua M. Moritz, “Evolution, the End of Human Uniqueness, and the Election of the Imago Dei” Theology and Science 9:3
(Aug. 2011) 307-339
Intermediate Level
-Ian Barbour, Nature, Human Nature and God (Fortress Press, 2002)
-David S. Cunningham, “The Way of all Flesh: Rethinking the Imago Dei,” in Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other
Animals, ed. Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough (SCM, 2009)
-Stanley Grenz, The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei (WJK, 2001)
-Alon Gottstein, “The Body as Image of God in Rabbinic Literature,” Harvard Theological Review 87:2 (April 1994)
-J. Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Brazos 2005)
-Nathan MacDonald, “The Imago Dei and Election: Reading Genesis 1:26–28 and Old Testament Scholarship with Karl
Barth,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 10: 3 (July 2008), 303–327
-Joshua Moritz, Human Uniqueness and the Image of God: Bridging Evolutionary Biology and Theological Anthropology
through Biblical Election (Pandora Press, forthcoming 2017)
-Joshua Moritz, “Animals and the Image of God in the Bible and Beyond” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 48 (2009) 134–46
- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Eerdmans, 2006)
Advanced Level
-Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro, eds.The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (Ashgate 2015)
-W. Randall Garr, In His Own Image and Likeness: Humanity, Divinity, and Monotheism (Brill, 2003)
-Matthew R. Goodrum, “Biblical anthropology and the idea of human prehistory in late antiquity,” History and Anthropology
13:2 (2002)

6. Ecological readings of scripture: what is scripture’s view of nature, non-human animals, and
what role do human beings play as co-creators and environmental stewards?
Web Resources
-Video: Richard Bauckham, “Jesus and the Wild”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3h1W3DO8vA
-Video: Paul Santmire, “Toward a Cosmic Christology”
https://vimeo.com/15582832
-Video: Brian Swimme, "Ecology: A New Story"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeX8Tzt8ur0

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-The Green Bible (HarperOne, 2008)
-R. J. Berry, ed. When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability (IVP, 2007)
-Denis Edwards, Ecology at the Heart of Faith (Orbis, 2006)
-Iain Provan, “The Land Is Mine and You Are Only Tenants (Leviticus 25:23): Earth-keeping and People-keeping in the Old
Testament,” CRUX 42:2 (Summer, 2006)
-Sandra Richter, “Environmental Law in Deuteronomy: One Lens on a Biblical Theology of Creation Care,” BBR 20 (2010):
355-76
-Sandra Richter, “Environmental Law: Wisdom from the Ancients,” BBR 24 (2014): 307-29
Intermediate Level
-Robin Attfield, Creation, Evolution and Meaning (Ashgate, 2006)
-Richard Bauckham, The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation (Baylor University Press, 2010)
-Richard Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology (Paternoster, 2012)
-Mark Bredin, The Ecology of the New Testament: Creation, Re-Creation, and the Environment (Biblical, 2010)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Eco-Theology (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2008)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, A Handbook in Ecology and Theology (SCM Press 1996)
-Terence E. Fretheim, God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation (Abingdon Press, 2005)
-Philip Hefner, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion (Fortress Press, 1993)
-David G. Horrell. The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology (Equinox , 2010)
-Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Dieter Hessel, eds. Christianity and Ecology (Harvard University Press, 1999)
-H. Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: the Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Fortress Press, 1985)

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Advanced Level
-Jeremy Cohen, “Be Fertile and Increase: Fill the Earth and Master It”: Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text (Cornell
University Press, 1989)
- Ellen Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger, eds, Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics (Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)
-Ted Hiebert, The Yahwist’s Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel (Fortress Press, 2009)
-David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate, Greening Paul: Rereading the Apostle in a Time of Ecological Crisis
(Baylor University Press, 2010)
-David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate and Francesca Stavrakopoulou, eds. Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical,
Historical and Theological Perspectives (T & T Clark, 2010)
-Hilary Marlow, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Re-Reading Amos, Hosea, and First Isaiah (Oxford
University Press, 2009)
- Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote, Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions: 1700-Present (Brill, 2008)

7. Scientific Research and Biblical Ethics


7.1 How does the Biblical understanding of ethics and virtue relate to scientific research in
altruism, honesty, humility, generosity, gratitude, empathy, forgiveness, and love?
Web Resources
-Video: Everett Worthington “Psychology and Virtue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86R2leQtuU
-Video: Jeff Schloss, “The "End" of Love: Evolutionary Psychology, Altruism, and Human Flourishing”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1267703/1267707.m4v
-Video: Christian Smith “The Generosity Equation”
http://csr.princeton.edu/multimedia/the-generosity-equation-lecture-by-christian-smith/
-Video: Thomas Jay Oord “The Centrality of Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsxqOkyGn3Q
Published Resources
General
-C. S. Cashwell, & J.S. Young, Integrating spirituality and religion into counseling: A guide to competent practice (American
Counseling Association, 2011)
-Andrew Newberg and Mark Waldman, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
(Ballantine Books, 2009)
-Robert C. Roberts, Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues (Eerdmans, 2007)
-Robert C. Roberts, Emotions in the Moral Life (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
-Nancy E. Snow, Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory (Routledge, 2010)
-George Vaillant, “Positive Emotions, Spirituality and the Practice of Psychiatry” Mens Sana Monographs 6:1 (2008):48–62
Altruism
-Batson C. D., (2002). Addressing the altruism question experimentally. In Altruism and altruistic love, S. Post, L. Underwood,
J. Schloss and W. Hurlbut eds. (Oxford University Press, 2002), 89-105
-Andrew Flescher and Daniel Worthen, The Altruistic Species: Scientific, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives (Templeton
Foundation Press, 2007)
-Jean L. Kristeller and Thomas Johnson, “Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on
Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality” Zygon 40:2 (June 2005) 391–408
-Thomas Jay Oord, ed. The Altruism Reader: Selections from Writings on Love, Religion, and Science (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2008)
-Stephen G. Post, Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion, and Service (Templeton Foundation Press, 2003)
-Eva-Lotta Grantén, Patterns of Care: Relating Altruism in Sociobiology and the Christian Tradition of Agape (Lund University,
2003)
-David Sloan Wilson, Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Yale University Press, 2015)
Empathy
-M. Morrison and W. A. Borgen, “How Christian spiritual and religious beliefs help and hinder counselors’ empathy toward
clients” Counseling and Values, 55:1 (2010) 25-45
-David Hogue, “Brain Matters: Neuroscience, Pastoral Theology and Empathy” in Journal of Pastoral Theology, Fall 2010 (in
press, Society for Pastoral Theology)
Gratitude
-G. Bono, R.A., Emmons, & Michael McCullough, “Gratitude in practice and the practice of gratitude,” in Positive Psychology In
Practice, P. A. Linley and S. Joseph, eds. (Wiley, 2004) 464- 481
-Robert A. Emmons, Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Mariner Books, 2008)
-Robert A. Emmons, “Giving Thanks: Psychological Research on Gratitude and Praise” In Spiritual information: Perspectives
on Science and Religion, C.L. Harper Jr. ed. (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) 451-456
-Robert A. Emmons, Michael E. McCullough, The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press, 2004)

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Forgiveness
-Thomas Baskin and Robert Enright, “Intervention Studies on Forgiveness: A Meta-Analysis” Journal of Counseling &
Development 82:1 (Winter 2004) 79–90
-Robert L. Browning, Roy A. Reed, Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Moral Courage: Motives and Designs for Ministry in a
Troubled World (Eerdmans, 2004)
-Robert Enright and Joanna North, Exploring Forgiveness (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998)
-Raymond G. Helmick, Rodney Lawrence Petersen, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, & Conflict
Transformation (Templeton, 2001)
-E. K. P. Hui and D. K. Y. Ho, “Forgiveness in the context of developmental guidance: implementation and evaluation,” British
Journal of Guidance and Counselling 32: 4 (2004) 477–492
-Michael E. McCullough, Kenneth I. Pargament, Carl E. Thoresen, Forgiveness: Theory, Research, and Practice (Guilford Press,
2001)
-Everett Worthington Jr. ed., Dimensions of Forgiveness Psychological Research & Theological Perspectives (Templeton, 1998)
-Everett Worthington Jr The Power of Forgiving (Templeton, 2005)
Generosity
-Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Elanah Dalyah Naftali, and Laura Musegades, Growing Up Generous: Engaging Youth in Giving and
Serving (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
-Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson, The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose (Oxford, 2014)
Humility
-Robert L. Herrmann, ed. God, Science, and Humility Ten Scientists Consider Humility Theology (Templeton, 1998)
-Stephen Post, Lynn Underwood, Jeffrey Schloss, and William Hurlbut, Altruism & Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy &
Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Love
-Robin Dunbar, The Science of Love (John Wiley, 2012)
-Jean L. Kristeller and Thomas Johnson, “Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on
Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality” Zygon 40:2 (June 2005), 391–408
-Matthew T. Lee and Amos Yong, Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities (Lexington Books, 2012)
-Thomas Jay Oord, Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement (Brazos Press, 2010)
-Thomas Jay Oord, Science of Love: The Wisdom of Well-Being (Templeton, 2004)
-Stephen G. Post, Godly Love: A Rose Planted in the Desert of Our Hearts (Templeton, 2008)

7.2 How does the Biblical understanding of the Earth relate to the fields of bioethics and
environmental ethics?
Web Resources
-Video: Calvin DeWitt, “Biblical Teachings on Environmental Stewardship and Caring for Creation”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1215421/1215425.m4v
-Video: Margot Hodson, “Human Responsibility for the Environment in a Fallen World”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1274586/1274590.m4v
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Environmental Justice and the Biblical Prophets”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1217074/1217078.m4v
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Theologies of Creation: The Foundation for Environmental Concern”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/728749/728753.m4v
-Audio: Jonathan Moo, “New Testament Eschatology and the Environment”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR251%20Moo.mp3
-Audio: Jonathan Moo, “Environmental Apocalypse and Christian Hope”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR490%20Moo.mp3
-Video: John Weaver, “A Theological Approach to the Environment and Climate Change”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1071889/1071893.m4v

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Noah J. Toly and Daniel I. Block, eds. Keeping God’s Earth: the Global Environment in Biblical Perspective (InterVarsity, 2010)
-Berry, R.J (ed.), The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action (InterVarsity, 2000)
-DeWitt, Calvin B., Caring for Creation: Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork (Baker Books, 1998)
Intermediate Level
-Richard C. Austin, Hope for the Land: Nature in the Bible (John Knox Press, 1988)
-R. J. Berry, Ecology and the Environment: The Mechanisms, Marring, and Maintenance of Nature (Templeton, 2011)
-Douglas John Hall, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship (Eerdmans, 1986)
- James A. Nash, Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility (Abingdon Press, 1991)
-Fred Van Dyke, Raymond Brand, David Mahan, and Joseph Sheldon, Redeeming Creation: A Biblical Basis for Environmental
Ethics (Abbott-Martyn Press, 1994)
-Nick Spencer and Robert White, Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living (SPCK, 2007)

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Advanced Level
-Margaret Barker, Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment (T & T Clark, 2010)
-Thomas Berry, Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth (Twenty-Third
Publications, 1991)
-R. J. Berry, ed. Environmental Stewardship (Continuum, 2006)
-Ernst M. Conradie, Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, Denis Edwards, eds. Christian Faith and the Earth: Current
Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (T&T Clark, 2014)
-Celia Deane-Drummond and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, eds. Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (T & T Clark, 2011)
-Ian Hore-Lacy, Responsible Dominion: A Christian Approach to Sustainable Development (Regent College Publishing, 2006)
-Ghillean Prance, The Earth Under Threat: A Christian Perspective (Wild Goose Publications, 1996)
-Colin A. Russell, The Earth, Humanity and God (University College London Press 1994)

7.3 The Science of Ethics/Science of Morality


Web Resources
-Video: David Brooks, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_1.flv
-Video: Michael Gazzaniga, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_2.flv
-Video: Jonathan Haidt, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_3.flv
-Video: Steven Quartz, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_4.flv
-Video: Jeff Schloss and Nancey Murphy, “A Dialogue on Biology, Morality and Theology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1nrOuzFDeU
-Video: Frans de Waal and Jeff Schloss, “Morals Without God?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1asMfteB98
-Video: Jeffrey Schloss, “Morality is both bottom-up and top-down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5t1fEckINo
-Article: William FitzPatrick, "Morality and Evolutionary Biology," (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-biology/

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Paul Bloom, Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil (Crown/Archetype, 2013)
-Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Penguin, 2013)
-Tamler Sommers, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain (Believer Books, 2009)
-Valerie Tiberius, Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2014)
Intermediate Level
-R. J. Davidson, “Seven sins in the study of emotion: correctives from affective neuroscience,” Brain and Cognition 52 (2003):
129-132
-Martha Farah, Neuroethics : an introduction with readings (MIT Press, 2010)
-Jonathan Haidt, “The Moral Emotions,” In The Handbook of Affective Sciences 1st Edition, ed. Richard J. Davidson, Klaus R.
Scherer, and H. Hill Goldsmith (Oxford University Press, 2003) , 852-870
-Jonathan Haidt, “The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology.” Science 316 (2007): 998–1002
-Jonathan Haidt, “The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment” Psychological
Review 108 (2001) 814-834
-Gregory R. Peterson, Michael Spezio, James A. Van Slyke, Kevin Reimer and Warren Brown, “The Rationality of Ultimate
Concern: Moral Exemplars, Theological Ethics, and the Science of Moral Cognition,” Theology and Science 8:2 (Spring
2010)
-Kevin Reimer, James A. Van Slyke; Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Michael L. Spezio Theology and the Science of Moral
Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience (Routledge, 2012)
Advanced Level
-Gabriel Abend, "What the Science of Morality Doesn't Say About Morality," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43:2 (June
2013) 157-200
-Ahmet Berker, "The Normative Insignificance of Cognitive Neuroscience," Philosophy & Public Affairs 37:4 (2009) 293-329
-William D. Casebeer, “The Neural Mechanisms of Moral Cognition: A Multiple-Aspect Approach to Moral Judgment and
Decision-Making,” Biology and Philosophy 18 (2003)
-William D. Casebeer, “Moral Cognition and Its Neural Constituents,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4 (Oct. 2003)
- Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson, "Sentimentalism and Scientism," in Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical
Essays on the Science of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-James Giordano, Bert Gordijn, eds. Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press,
2010)

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-Daniel Jacobson and Justin D’Arms, Rational Sentimentalism (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-Dennis Krebs and Maria Janicki, “Biological Foundations of Moral Norms” in Psychological Foundations of Culture, ed. M.
Schaller and C. Crandall (Erlbaum, 2004)
-Shaun Nichols. Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment (Oxford University Press, 2004)
-Stephen J Pope, Human evolution and Christian ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Jesse Prinz, The Emotional Construction of Morals (Oxford University Press, 2007)
-Hilary Putnam, Susan Neiman, and Jeffrey P. Schloss, Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives?
(Transaction Publishers, 2014)
-Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity (MIT
Press, 2008)
-Jeffrey Schloss, "Darwinian Explanations of Morality: Accounting for the Normal but Not the Normative,” Zygon (2013)
-Bruce N. Waller, “What Rationality Adds to Animal Morality,” Biology and Philosophy 12:3 (July 1997)
-Erik Wielenberg, Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism (Oxford University Press,
2014)
-Liane Young, and Michael Koenigs, “Investigating emotion in moral cognition: a review of evidence from functional
neuroimaging and neuropsychology,” British Medical Bulletin 84:1 (November 20, 2007)

8. Is “Creation Science” Scientific or Biblical?


8.1 Is there scientific evidence for “creation science”?
Web Resources
-Karl Giberson “Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism”
http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/Giberson-scholarly-essay-1-1.pdf
-Video: Joshua Moritz, “The Sectarian Origins of Young Earth Creationism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQJzT9uTkro

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Denis Alexander, Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? (Monarch Books, 2008)
-Darrel Falk, Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds between Faith and Biology (InterVarsity, 2004)
-K.W. Giberson, Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (HarperOne, 2008)
-Denis Lamoureux , Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach (Wipf & Stock, 2008)
-Denis Lamoureux and P.E. Johnson, Darwinism Defeated? (Regent College Publishers, 1999)
-Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism (MIT Press, 1982)
-Joshua Moritz, “God's Creation Through Evolution and the Language of Scripture,” Theology and Science 11 (2013)
-Eugenie C. Scott, Evolution vs. Creationism (Greenwood Press, 2004)
-National Academy of Sciences, Science, Evolution, and Creationism (National Academies Press, 2008)
-Howard Van Till, Davis Young, and Clarence Menninga, Science Held Hostage: What's Wrong with Creation Science and
Evolutionism, (Inter-Varsity, 1988)
Intermediate Level
-R. J. Berry, God and Evolution (Regent College Publishing, 2001)
-Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle (Harvard University Press, 2005)
-Michael Ruse, Evolution and Religion: A Dialogue (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008)
-Keith B. Miller, ed., Perspectives on an Evolving Creation (Eerdmans, 2003)
-Davis Young and Ralph Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth (IVP Academic,
2008)
-Rodney Stiling, “The Genesis Flood,” History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, Gary B.
Ferngren, Edward J. Larsen and Darrel W. Amundsen, eds. (Garland, 2000)
Advanced Level
-P. H. Kelley, J. R. Bryan and T. A. Hansen, eds., The Evolution-Creation Controversy II: Perspectives on Science, Religion, and
Geological Education (Paleontological Society Paper No. 5, 1999)
-Laurie R. Godfrey, ed. Scientists Confront Creationism (W. W. Norton, 1983)
-Robert Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism (MIT Press, 1999)
-Robert Pennock, Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics (MIT Press, 2001)
-Robert Pennock and Michael Ruse, But is it Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Creation/evolution Controversy
(Prometheus Books, 2009)
-Massimo Pigliucci, Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science (Sinauer, 2002)
-Michael Roberts, “Genesis Chapter 1 and Geological Time from Hugo Grotius and Marin Mersenne to William Conybeare
and Thomas Chalmers (1620–1825)” in L. Piccardi and W. B. Masse, eds. Myth and Geology (Geological Society, 2007)
-Martin Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution (University of Chicago
Press, 2005)
-David Sedley, Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (University of California Press, 2008)
-Kenneth Walker, ed., The Evolution - Creation Controversy: Perspectives on Religion, Philosophy, Science and Evolution,
(Paleontological Society Special Publication No. 1, 1984)

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8.2 Is “creation science” biblical?
Web Resources
-Karl Giberson “Adventist Origins of Young Earth Creationism”
http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/Giberson-scholarly-essay-1-1.pdf
-Video: Joshua Moritz, “The Sectarian Origins of Young Earth Creationism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQJzT9uTkro

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Stanley Gundry, J. P. Moreland, and J. M. Reynolds, eds. Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Zondervan, 1999)
-J. Daryl Charles, ed. Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation (Hendrickson, 2013)
Intermediate Level
-Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson, eds. Reading Genesis after Darwin (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-David Snoke, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth (Baker, 2006)
-Margaret Towne, Honest to Genesis: A Biblical and Scientific Challenge to Creationism (Publish America, 2003)
-Howard J. Van Till, Robert E. Snow, John H. Stek and Davis A. Young, Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives
on the World's Formation (Eerdmans, 1990)
-Larry A. Witham, Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Advanced Level
-Roland Frye, ed., Is God a Creationist? The Religious Argument Against Creation-Science (Scribner's 1983)
-Gordon Glover, Beyond the Firmament: Understanding Science and the Theology of Creation (WaterTree Press, 2007)
-Mark S. Whorton, Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science, and the Age of the Earth (Authentic, 2005)

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III. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY
1. Natural Theology vs. Theology of Nature
Web Resources
-Video: Lawrence Principe: “Natural Theology: A Historical Perspective”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtfyLtEvf-o
-Video: Peter Harrison, “Biology and Worldviews: From Natural Theology to the Evolutionary Epic”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1562113/1562118.m4v
-Video: Russell Manning, “Natural Theology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jDq4eRNJBY
-Audio: Alister McGrath, “Biology, the Anthropic Principle and Natural Theology”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR176%20Alister%20McGrath.mp3
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “Natural Theology”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1266086/1266090.m4v
-Video: Lawrence Principe, “Natural Theology: A Historical Perspective”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/655955/655959.m4v
-Video: Jonathan Topham, “Biology in the service of Natural Theology”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/737271/737275.m4v
-Video: Russell Stannard, Is Natural Theology Legitimate?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3030

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Richard Bauckham, “First Steps to a Theology of Nature” Evangelical Quarterly 58 (1986) 229-244
-John Haught, Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature (Orbis Books, 2007)
-Ted Peters, “Natural Theology versus Theology of Nature,” Theology and Science 3:1 (2005)
-Ted Peters, Science and Theology: The New Consonance (Westview Press, 1998)
-Kirk Wegter-McNelly, “Difference within Theology of Nature: The Strategies of Intelligibility and Credibility” Journal of
Faith and Science Exchange 116 (2000)

Intermediate Level
-John Hedley Brooke, “Natural Theology,” in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. John Heilbron
(Oxford University Press, 2003) 563-5
-Anna Case-Winters, Reconstructing a Christian Theology of Nature: Down to Earth (Ashgate, 2007)
-Alister E. McGrath, Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
-Alister E. McGrath, The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith (Westminster/J. Knox Press, 1993)
- Arthur R. Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming-- Natural and Divine (Blackwell, 1990)
- Arthur R. Peacocke, Paths From Science Towards God: The End of all Our Exploring (Oneworld, 2001)

Advanced Level
-R .J. Berry, God's Book of Works: The Theology of Nature and Natural Theology (T & T Clark, 2003)
-John Cobb, A Christian Natural Theology, Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead (Presbyterian Publishing, 2007)
-William Lane Craig, Kevin Meeker, Michael Murray, J. P. Moreland, Timothy O'Connor, eds. Philosophy of Religion: A Reader
and Guide (Rutgers University Press, 2002)
-Niels H. Gregersen, Michael Parsons, and Christoph Wassermann, eds. The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology
(Labor et Fides, 1997)
-Rodney Holder, The Heavens Declare: Natural Theology and the Legacy of Karl Barth (Templeton, 2012)
-Russell Manning, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (Oxford University Press, 2013)
-Arthur Peacocke, Creation and the world of science – The reshaping of belief (Oxford University Press, 2004)
-Stuart Peterfreund, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin: The Way of the Argument from Design
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
-Thomas P. Flint and Michael Rea, eds. Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Michael Murray and Michael Rea, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-Andrew Robinson, ed. Darwinism and Natural Theology: Evolving Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars, 2012)
-Michael Ruse, Darwin and Design (Harvard University Press, 2003)
-William Wainwright, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2004)

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2. Doctrine of God: Can science help us understand God?
2.1 What metaphors and models from contemporary science can help us to better understand
theological concepts? (e.g. quantum entanglement for Trinity, field for Holy Spirit, wave-
particle duality for Christ’s two natures, etc.)
Web Resources
-Video: Peter Bussey, “Does quantum mechanics have any relevance for religious belief?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1209692/1209696.m4v
-Video: Don Page, “Quantum Cosmology and Its Implications for Theology”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1255072/1255076.m4v b

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-John Polkinghorne, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (Yale University Press, 2007)
-John Polkinghorne, Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality (SPCK, 2004)
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, “The Doctrine of the Spirit and the Task of a Theology of Nature” Theology 75: 619 (Jan. 1972) 8-21
Intermediate Level
-W. H. Austin, “Complementarity and Theological Paradox,” Zygon (1967)
-Sjoerd Bonting, Creation and Double Chaos: Science and Theology in Discussion (Fortress press, 2005)
-John Honner, “Unity-in-Difference: Karl Rahner and Niels Bohr” Theological Studies 46:3 (Sept.1985) 480-506
-Gerald O'Collins, Mary Ann Meyers, Light from Light: Scientists and Theologians in Dialogue (Eerdmans, 2012)
-David Grandy and Marc-Charles Ingerson, “The Perichoresis of Light” Theology and Science 10: 3 (2012)
-Veli-Matti Kärkäinen, “The Working of the Spirit of God in Creation and in the People of God: The Pneumatology of Wolfhart
Pannenberg,” The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:1 (Spring 2004): 17-35.
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, “God As Spirit – And Natural Science,” Zygon 36:4 (December 2001) 783-794.
-Ernest Simmons, “Quantum perichoresis: Quantum field theory and the Trinity” Theology and Science 4: 2 (July 2006). 137-
150
-Theodore Whapham, “Spirit as field of force,” Scottish Journal of Theology 67:01 (February 2014) 15-32
Advanced Level
-Jeanine Diller, Asa Kasher, eds. Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (Springer, 2013)
-Tapio Luoma, Incarnation and Physics: Natural Science in the Theology of Thomas F. Torrance (Oxford University Press,
2002)
-John Polkinghorne, The Trinity and an Entangled World: Relationality in Physical Science and Theology (Eerdmans, 2010)
-F. LeRon Shults, “Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding,” in Zachary Simpson & Philip Clayton, eds., The
Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Ernest Simmons, The Entangled Trinity: Quantum Physics and Theology (Fortress, 2014)
-T. F. Torrance, The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being, Three Persons (T&T Clark Ltd, 2001)
-Kirk Wegter-McNelly, The Entangled God: Divine Relationality and Quantum Physics (Routledge, 2011)

2.2 How has conversation with the natural sciences informed different understandings of God?
Web Resources
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “The Universe in a Trinitarian Perspective”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1265155/1265159.m4v

Published Resources
Religious Naturalism
-Donald A. Crosby, A Religion of Nature (State University of New York Press, 2002)
-W. B. Drees, Religion, Science, and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
-Owen Flanagan, “Varieties of Naturalism,” in Zachary Simpson & Philip Clayton. eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and
Science (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1998)
-Roger S. Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2004)
-Michael S. Hogue, The Promise of Religious Naturalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
-Stuart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (Basic Books, 2008)
-Jerome Stone, Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative (State University of New York Press, 2008)
Panentheism
-Joseph A. Bracken, “Panentheism from a Trinitarian Perspective”, Horizons 22 (1975) 7–28
-Philip Clayton and Arthur Peacocke, In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's
Presence in a Scientific World (Eerdmans, 2004)
-Philip Clayton, “Panentheist Internalism: Living within the Presence of the Trinitarian God,” Dialog 40 (2001)208–215
-Philip Clayton, “Kenotic trinitarian panentheism”, Dialog 44 (2005) 250–255.
-Philip Clayton, “The Case for Christian Panentheism,” Dialog 37 (Summer 1998): 201-208
-Arthur Peacocke, All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty - First Century, ed. by Philip Clayton (Fortress, 2009)

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Trinitarian
-Denis Edwards, The God of Evolution: a Trinitarian Theology (Paulist Press, 1999)
-Colin E. Gunton, The Triune Creator: A Historical and Systematic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
-John Polkinghorne, Science and the Trinity, a Christian Encounter with Reality (Yale University Press, 2004)
-John Polkinghorne, ed. The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis (Eerdmans, 2001)
-Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed. The Trinity in a Pluralistic Age: Theological Essays on Culture and Religion (Eerdmans, 1997)
Process Theism
-Joseph A. Bracken, The World in the Trinity: Open-Ended Systems in Science and Religion (Fortress, 2014)
-John B. Cobb, Jr., A Christian Natural Theology, Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead (Westminster Press, 1965)
-David Ray Griffin, “Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whiteheadian Process Philosophy,” in Zachary Simpson &
Philip Clayton, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Deism
-Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (Simon and Schuster, 1983)
-Paul Davies, The Mind of God (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
-Anthony Flew, There is a God (Harper Collins, 2009)
Open Theism
-Gregory Boyd, God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God (Baker, 2000)
-Terence Fretheim, The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Fortress, 1984)
-William Hasker, Thomas Jay Oord, Dean Zimmerman, eds. God in an Open Universe: Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism
(Wipf and Stock, 2011)
-William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell University Press, 1989)
-Thomas Jay Oord, Creation Made Free: Open Theology Engaging Science (Pickwick Publications, 2009)
-Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, David Basinger. The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the
Traditional Understanding of God (InterVarsity, 1994)
-John Sanders, The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence (InterVarsity Press, 1998)

2.3 How do the natural sciences relate to the question of God’s existence?
Web Resources
-Video: Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., “The Evidence for God from Contemporary Physics"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYfaOJATh_U
-Video: Francis Collins, “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence of Belief”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGu_VtbpWhE
-Video: Robert Spitzer and Stephen Barr, “God’s existence and Cosmology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi6pnxuIkAs
-Video: Keith Ward, “Is there an ultimate explanation for the universe?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwJeEq-VgYU
-Video: Keith Ward, “Has Science Removed the Need for God?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bfBD37R1MY

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Basic, 2006)
-Karl W. Giberson The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World (IVP, 2012)
-Karl W. Giberson and Francis S. Collins, The Language of Science and Faith (IVP 2011)
-Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (IVP, 2011)
-Owen Gingerich, God’s Universe (Harvard University Press, 2006)
-Alister McGrath, Glimpsing the Face of God (Eerdmans, 2002)
-John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale University Press, 1999)
-Keith Ward, Why There is Almost Certainly a God: Doubting Dawkins (Lion, 2008)
Intermediate Level
-William Lane Craig, The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz (Barnes & Noble, 1980)
-William Lane Craig, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Barnes & Noble, 1979)
-Stephen T. Davis, God, Reason and Theistic Proofs (Grand Rapids, 1997)
-Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009)
-John Polkinghorne, The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker (Fortress Press, 1996)
-Richard Swinburne, Is There A God? (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Advanced Level
-Paul Copan & William Lane Craig, Creation Out of Nothing: Its Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration (Baker, 2004)
-William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (Clarendon Press, 1993)
-J. Foster, The Divine Lawmaker. Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God (Clarendon Press, 2004)
-Robert Spitzer, New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy (Eerdmans, 2010)
-Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God (Oxford University Press, 2004)
-Fraser Watts, ed. Creation: Law and Probability (Ashgate, 2008)

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2.4 How do scientific understandings of time relate to the question of God’s eternity?
Web Resources
-Video: John Polkinghorne - What is Time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkHfWezUAak
-Video: Huw Price - What is Time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_C8UzwQ63g
-Video: Brian Greene on The B-Theory of Time (Good Intro to Concept)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WfFkp4puw
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “Creation, Evil and Time”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1265728/1265732.m4v
-Video: Dean Zimmerman, ‘God and Time”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1212842/1212846.m4v
-Video: Vlatko Vedral, “Occam's Razor and the Quantum Arrow of Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tatgptTqNL0

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Gregory Ganssle, ed. God & Time: Four Views (IVP, 2001)
-Harry Poe and Stanley Mattson, eds. What God Knows: Time, Eternity, and Divine Knowledge (Baylor University Press, 2005)

Intermediate Level
-William Lane Craig, Time & Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time (Crossway Books, 2001)
-Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff, God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature (Oxford University Press, 2001)
-Paul Helm, Eternal Time: A Study of God Without Time (Oxford University Press, 1988)
-Alan Padgett, God, Eternity and the Nature of Time (St. Martin's Press, 1992)
-Christian Tapp and Edmund Runggaldier, God, Eternity, and Time (Ashgate 2011)

Advanced Level
-Anindita Balslev ed. Religion and Time (Brill, 1993)
-William Lane Craig, God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity (Kluwer Academic, 2001)
-Stephen Happel, Metaphors For God's Time in Science and Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
-Richard Holland, God, Time, and Incarnation (Wipf & Stock, 2012)
- C. J. Isham and John Polkinghorne, “The Debate over the Block Universe’, in R. J. Russell, N. Murphy, and C. J. Isham, eds.
Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 2nd ed., (Vatican Observatory
Publications and Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1996) 139-148
-Antje Jackelén, Time and Eternity: The Question of Time in Church, Science, and Theology (Templeton, 2005)
-Duane Larson, Times of the Trinity: a proposal for theistic cosmology (Peter Lang, 1995)
-Hilary Martin, “Eternity and Temporality in the Theology of Karl Barth,” Science & Christian Belief: 21 (2009), 101–110
-Robert John Russell, Time in Eternity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)

2.5 How does Divine infinity relate to mathematics


Web Resources
-Video: Peter Bussey, “Physical Infinities - A Substitute for God”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1254460/1254464.m4v
-Article: Brendan Kneale, “God and Mathematical Infinity”
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1998/PSCF3-98Kneale.html

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-John Barrow, The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless (Pantheon Books, 2005)
-Paul Gould, ed. Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on The Problem of God and Abstract Objects (Bloomsbury, 2014)
-John Polkinghorne, Meaning in Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Intermediate Level
-Teun Koetsier, and Luc Bergmans, Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study (Elsevier, 2004)
-Edward T. Oakes, Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology (Eerdmans, 2011)

Advanced Level
-David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite (Eerdmans, 2003)
-Michael Heller and W. Hugh Woodin, eds., Infinity: New Research Frontiers (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
-Anne Newstead, “Cantor on Infinity in Nature, Number, and the Divine Mind,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
83:4 (2009): 533-553
-Eric Steinhart, “A Mathematical Model of Divine Infinity,” Theology and Science 7:3 (2009) 261–274

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3. Doctrine of Creation
3.1 How does theology relate to scientific cosmology? (e.g. creation ex nihilo and t=0)
Web Resources
-Video: Interview with various scientists: “Did the Universe Have a Beginning?”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/begin-topics.html?b=cqinterv/begin-body.html
-Video: Bill Stoeger, “Cosmology and Christianity”
http://www.counterbalance.org/godcr/stoeg-frame.html
-Video: Stephen M. Barr, “Modern Physics, the Beginning and Creation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqUOFKOPKmE
-Video: William Carroll, “Aquinas and Contemporary Cosmology: Creation and Beginnings”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1134687/1134692.m4v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lxKj_Y4iIg
-Video: William Carroll, “Creation and Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Thomas Aquinas”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1213043/1213047.m4v
-Video: Janet Soskice, “Creation ex Nihilo and What It Means for Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/641529/641533.m4v
-Video: Robert J. Spitzer, “Fine-tuning, BVG Theorem, and the Beginning of the Universe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucFH4g9Sx7k
-Video: Russell Stannard, Did God create the Cosmos?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3032
-Video: Robert John Russell: “Did God Create Time?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2913
-Video: William Lane Craig: Did God create the Cosmos?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2051
-Video: John Polkinhorne: How is God the Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3617
-Video: Keith Ward: How is God the Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3195
-Video: Robert John Russell: What does it mean for God to be Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2916
-Video: Brian Leftow: What does it mean for God to be Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3599
-Video: Alister McGrath, What does it mean for God to be Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2676
-Video: Timothy O’Connor, What does it mean for God to be Creator?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3875
-Video: Alister McGrath, What is the nature of reality in relation to God?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3878
-Video: Rodney Holder, What is the nature of reality in relation to God?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2421
-Video: Robert J. Spitzer and Bruce Gordon, ”The Beginning of the Universe and Fine-Tuning”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQcFstKzgaA
-Video: Yujin Nagasawa, How large is God’s Creation?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3813

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Joshua Moritz, “Scientific Cosmology and Christian Theology” in Theology and Science: Discussions About Faith and Facts, ed.
Joseph Seckbach (Springer, 2017)
-Ted Peters, ed. Cosmos as Creation (Abingdon, 1989)
-John Polkinghorne, Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding (SPCK, 1988)
-Del Ratzsch, The Battle of Beginnings (IV Press, 1996)
Intermediate Level
-Willem B. Drees, Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God (Open Court, 1990)
-Willem B. Drees, Creation: From Nothing until Now (Routledge, 2002)
-Rodney Holder, Big Bang Big God: A Universe Designed For Life? (Lion, 2013)
-Ernan McMullin, “How Should Cosmology Relate to Theology?” in The Sciences and Theology in the Twentieth Century, A.
Peacocke ed. (Notre Dame University Press, 1981): 17–57
-Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation: A new theology of creation and the spirit of God (Harper & Row, 1985)
-Robert John Russell, “Did God Create Our Universe?” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 950 (2001): 108–127
-Hans Schwarz, Creation (Eerdmans, 2002)
-W. Stoeger, “God, Physics and the Big Bang,” in The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion, P. Harrison ed.,
(Cambridge University Press, 2010) 173–189
-Mark William Worthing, God, Creation, and Contemporary Physics (Fortress Press, 1996)

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Advanced Level
-David Burrell, Carlo Cogliati, Janet Soskice and William Stoeger, eds. Creation and the God of Abraham (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
-George Ellis, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained (Boyars/ Bowerdean, 1993)
-William Carroll, "Big Bang Cosmology, Quantum Tunneling from Nothing, and Creation," Laval Théologique et Philosophique,
44 (1988), 59-75.
-Joseph Zycinski, “Metaphysics and Epistemology in Stephen Hawking's Theory of the Creation of the Universe,” Zygon 31
(1996), 269-284

3.2 In light of evolution, does creation have a purpose? (design, fine tuning, anthropic principle,
evolutionary convergence, and emergence of mind)
Web Resources
-Video: Interview with various scientists and theologians: “Was the Universe Designed?”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/design-topics.html?b=cqinterv/design-body.html
-Video: Robert Spitzer, “The Anthropic Principle - Theistic Implications”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cosmcrea/spitzer-frame.html
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “Fine tuning: scientific evidence of God, or pointer to a multiverse?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHoaQjqf88
-Video: Robin Collins, “What Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2033
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj_fLi_K7jA
-Video: Robin Collins, “Fine-Tuning and Discoverability”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey8723Vc8gg
-Video: Robin Collins: Cosmology and Fine Tuning: Three Approaches
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1140462/1140467.m4v
-Video: Steven Dick “What Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2160
-Video: Robert John Russell, “Does A Fined Tuned Universe Lead to God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2915
-Video: Peter Van Inwagen, “Does A Fined Tuned Universe Lead to God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3177
-Video: Paul Davies, “Does A Fined Tuned Universe Lead to God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2081
-Video: Freeman Dyson, “Does A Fined Tuned Universe Lead to God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4582
-Video: Leonard Susskind, “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3081
-Video: Russell Stannard, “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3031
-Video: Alexander Vilenkin, “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3670
-Video: Roger Penrose, “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2809
-Video: Martin Rees, “Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3626
-Video: Phil Hefner, “The Created Co-Creator: Clues to the Ways of Providence”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/hefner-frame.html
-Video: Simon Conway Morris, “If the Evolution of Intelligence is Inevitable, What are the Metaphysical Consequences?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJv2A6-CNQ
-Video: Jeffrey Schloss, “Evolutionary Biology and the Spirit”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJIPJBX7JM
-Video: Kerry Fulcher, “Evolution: An Unfolding Creation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Se0Rw4COSs
-Video: Ken Miller - Evolution (Parts 1-3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubiC3BhFvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9zqBq5EGGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX2HmW6rSno
-Video: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware “Evolution and Faith”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSVPZykCRyQ
-Video: John Haught – “God After Darwin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgu4OkZ0brY
-Video: Ard Louis, “Is evolution random?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gW-6q7rBo

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-Video: John Polkinghorne: “Evolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlJ7Bt3oxE
-Video: William Carroll: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OuK_DZWSU
-Video: Michael Lynch: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc0h0l-eHVA
-Video: Ken Miller: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvHKnX7k0Y
-Video: Jean Gayon: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnxyAX7Wgxk
-Video: Peter Bowler: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvV0zblcn74
-Video: Robert J. Richards: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjglRFXqsyQ
-Video: Bernard Wood: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvxeUbemuw
-Video: Francisco Ayala: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvaftq0vZBY
-Video: Celia Dean-Drummond: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24zaDfZPqUs
-Video: Paul Griffiths: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfqltq9NCU
-Video: Panel: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRnQt3UqVQ
Philosophy Discussion: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQVRiiOCaM8
-Video: Alessandro Minelli: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2kIbtOSTNg
-Video: Theology Discussion: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAh94YDligY
-Video: Sandra D. Mitchell: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUIvPPfLZgo
-Video: Gennard Auletta: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJtG0l55Vo
-Video: Greg Crawford: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JsnoIOLjU
-Video: Simon Conway Morris: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDiJh5Sy9Dg
-Video: Joseph Zycinski: Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNj5IRct4M

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Francisco J. Ayala Darwin and Intelligent Design (Fortress Press, 2006)
-William Dembski, and Michael Ruse. Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
-James B. Miller, ed. An Evolving Dialogue: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Evolution,
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998)
-Joshua Moritz, “The Modern Synthesis in Evolution” in Gary Ferngren, ed. Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction
(John Hopkins University Press, 2017)
-Graham J. O’brien, “A Theology of Purpose: Creation, Evolution and the Understanding of Purpose” Science & Christian Belief
(2007) 19:1
-Ted Peters & Martinez Hewlett Can you believe in God and evolution?: a guide for the perplexed (Abingdon Press, 2006)
-Del Ratzsch, Nature, Design and Science (SUNY Press, 2002)
-Joseph Zycinski, God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism (Catholic University of America Press,
2006)
Intermediate Level
-David J. Bartholomew, God, Chance and Purpose: Can God have it both ways? (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-John B. Cobb, ed. Back to Darwin: a Richer Account of Evolution (Eerdmans, 2008)
-Nathaniel C. Comfort, ed. The Panda's Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Controversy (Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2007)
-Paul Davies The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? (Allen Lane, 2006)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Creation Through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology (T&T Clark, 2000)
-Paul Ewart, “The Necessity of Chance: Randomness, Purpose and the Sovereignty of God” S & CB 21 (2009) 111–131
-Alister McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe? The Quest for God in Science and Theology (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2009)

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-Kenneth Miller, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (Cliff Street
Books, 1999)
-Nancey Murphy and George Ellis, On The Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology and. Ethics (Fortress, 1996)
-Simon Conway Morris, “Creation and Evolutionary Convergence” in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity,
eds. James Stump and Alan Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)
-Simon Conway Morris, The Deep Structure of Biology: is convergence sufficiently ubiquitous to give a directional signal?
(Templeton, 2008)
-Ted Peters & Martinez Hewlett, Evolution, from Creation to New Creation (Abingdon Press, 2003)
-Robert B. Stewart, Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski & Michael Ruse in Dialogue (Fortress Press, 2007)
-Philip Sloan, ed. Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God (Notre Dame University Press, 2015)
-Thomas F. Tracy, “Divine Purpose and Evolutionary Processes,” Zygon 48:2 (June 2013)
-Keith Ward, God, Chance and Necessity (Oneworld, 1996)
Advanced Level
-Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Structure and Synthesis (Cambridge University
Press, 2005)
-D. Bartholomew, God, Chance and Purpose (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-J. A. Bryant and M. A. Atherton, Nature and Design (WIT Press, 2005)
-Bernard Carr, ed. Universe or Multiverse? (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Julian Chela-Flores, A Second Genesis: Stepping-stones Towards the Intelligibility of Nature (World Scientific, 2009)
-Richard G. Colling, Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator (Browning Press, 2004)
-Paul Davies “Physics and Life,” in J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen and F. Raulin, eds. The First Steps in the Origin of Life in the
Universe (Kluwer, 2001)
-David Depew and Bruce Webber, Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection (MIT Press,
1996)
-Niels Henrik Gregersen, “The Idea of Creation and the Theory of Autopoietic Processes,” Zygon 33 (1998): 333–367
-Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the
History of Life (MIT Press, 2005)
-Jacob Klapwijk, Purpose in the Living World? Creation and Emergent Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-Neil A. Manson, God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science (Routledge, 2003)
-Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species (Basic Books, 2002)
-George R. McGhee, Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful (MIT Press, 2011)
-George R. McGhee, The Geometry of Evolution: Adaptive Landscapes and Theoretical Morphospaces (Cambridge University
Press, 2007)
-Simon Conway Morris, “Evolution and the inevitability of intelligent life,” in The Cambridge Companion to Science and
Religion, Peter Harrison ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
-Simon Conway Morris, The Runes of Evolution: How the Universe Became Self-Aware (Templeton, 2014)
-Simon Conway Morris, “The Navigation of Biological Hyperspace,” International Journal of Astrobiology 2:2 (2003)
-Martin Nowak and Sarah Coakley, Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation (Harvard University Press, 2013)
-Jason S. Robert, Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
-Walther Thirring, Cosmic Impressions: Traces of God in the Laws of Nature (Templeton, 2007)
-Robert E. Ulanowicz, A Third Window: Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin (Templeton, 2009)
-G.C. Webster, B.C. Goodwin, Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology (Cambridge
University Press, 1996)
-John S. Wilkins, “Could God Create Darwinian Accidents?” Zygon 47:1 (2012): 30-42
-Brian Henning and Adam Christian Scarfe, eds. Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back into Biology (Lexington Books, 2013)

3.3 Astrotheology and Theological Implications of Intelligent Extra-Terrestrial Life


Web Resources
-Video: Rodney Holder, “The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1295083/1295087.m4v
-Video: Ted Peters, “Astro-Ethics and the Search for Life”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1160874/1160879.m4v
-Video: David Wilkinson, “The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1252000/1252004.m4v
-Audio: David Wilkinson, “Science, Religion and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR571%20Wilkinson.mp3
-Audio: David Wilkinson, “God and Cosmology”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR569%20Wilkinson.mp3
-Video: Jenifer Wiseman, “Exoplanets, Life and Human Significance”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1104765/1104770.m4v
-Video: Jenifer Wiseman, “Habitable Exoplanets: The Implications for Human Significance”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1280913/1280917.m4v
-Video: Jenifer Wiseman, “New Surprises in an Ancient Universe”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1619440/1619445.m4v
-Article: “Astrotheology”
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-Video: Jill Tarter “Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence”
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/cq2-27-body.html?b=transcript/alone-body.html
-Video: Alan Guth on the Probability of Finding ET
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/cq2-29-body.html?b=transcript/alone-body.html
-Video: Anna Case-Winters on Extra Terrestrial Life
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/cq2-30-body.html?b=transcript/alone-body.html
-Video: John Barrow on the Emergence of Intelligent Life
http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/cq2-31-body.html?b=transcript/alone-body.html
-Video: “Finding New Worlds: Expoplanets and the Significance of Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJqKjM3xx0
-Video: Simon Conway Morris, “If the Evolution of Intelligence is Inevitable, What are the Metaphysical Consequences?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJv2A6-CNQ
Published Resources
-Jacques Arnould, “Does Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Threaten Religion and Philosophy?” Theology and Science 6:4
(November 2008)
-Albert A. Harrison and Douglas A. Vakoch, eds. Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos (Springer, 2013)
-Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Paul Mueller, SJ, Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: And Other Questions from the Astronomers'
In-box at the Vatican Observatory (Crown, 2014)
-Guy Consolmagno, SJ, Intelligent Life in the Universe?: Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
(Catholic Truth Society, 2005)
-Michael J. Crowe, Matthew F. Dowd, and Douglas A. Vakoch eds., Astrobiology, History, and Society: Life Beyond Earth and the
Impact of Discovery (Springer 2013)
-Ilia Delio O.S.F., “Christ and extraterrestrial life” Theology and Science 5:3 (November 2007)
-Steven Dick, Many Worlds : The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Theological Implications (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2000)
-John Hart, “Cosmic Commons: Contact and Community” Theology and Science 8:4 (November 2010)
-Andreas Losch & Andreas Krebs “Implications for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: A Theological Approach” Theology
and Science 13:2 (2015)
-Ted Peters, “Astrotheology” in The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought (Routledge, 2013)
-Ted Peters, The Evolution of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life (Pandora Press, 2008)
-Ted Peters, “Exotheology: Speculations on Extraterrestrial Life,” in Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2003)
-Ted Peters, Robert John Russell, and Joshua Moritz, eds. Astrotheology (forthcoming)
-Ted Peters “Astrotheology and the ETI Myth” Theology and Science 7:1 (February 2009)
-David Wilkinson, Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2013)

4. Providence, Divine Action, and Miracles: In what ways does God act in the world of nature
and how does this relate to the history of salvation?
Web Resources
http://www.closertotruth.com/series/does-god-intervene-human-affairs#video-2420
-Video: Philip Clayton, “How does God interact with nature?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1981
-Video: Robert John Russell, “How does God interact with nature?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2916
-Video: “The Special Divine Action Project”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSKMbq7Fk8
-Video: Nancey Murphy, “How does God interact with nature?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2774
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “How Does God Act in the Cosmos?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3619
-Video: Robert John Russell, “Non-Interventionist Objective Special Providence”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/presrr-frame.html
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Jeff Astley, David Brown, and Ann Loades, eds. God in Action: Problems in Theology (Continuum, 2004)
-David Basinger, and Randall Basinger, “Miracles,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 6 (1998): 411-16
-Nancey Murphy, “Science and Divine Action” in Melville Y. Stewart ed. Science and Religion in Dialogue (Blackwell, 2010)
-Alan G. Padgett, “God and Miracle in an Age of Science” in J. B. Stump; Alan G. Padgett eds., The Blackwell companion to
science and Christianity (Blackwell, 2012)
-John Polkinghorne, Science and Providence: God’s Interaction with the World (Templeton, 2005)
-Atle O. Søvik, “Why Christian Theology Should Accept that Miracles Occur,” Science & Christian Belief 22 (2010) 151–165
-Thomas Tracy “Divine Action,” in CharlesTaliaferro ed. A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) 308-314
-Thomas Tracy “Theologies of Divine Action” in Philip Clayton and Zachary Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Religion
and Science (Oxford University Press, 2006)

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Intermediate Level
-Philip Clayton, Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action (Fortress Press, 2008)
-Denis Edwards, How God Acts: Creation, Redemption and Special Divine Acts (Fortress Press, 2010)
-Thomas Flint, Divine Providence: The Molinist Account (Cornell University Press, 1998)
-William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell University Press, 1989)
-Paul Helm, The Providence of God (Intervarsity Press, 1993)
-Stanley L. Jaki, Miracles and Physics (Christendom Press, 1989)
-Howard C. Kee, Miracle in the Early Christian World (Yale University Press, 1983)
-Christopher C. Knight, “Theistic Naturalism and "Special" Divine Providence,” Zygon 44:3 (2009): 533-542
-E. J. Lowe, “Miracles and the Laws of Nature,” Religious Studies 23 (1987) 236-78
-George I. Mavrodes, “Miracles and the Laws of Nature,” Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985) 333-46
-F. Michael McLain and W. Mark Richardson, Human and Divine Agency: Anglican, Catholic, and Lutheran Perspectives
(University Press of America, 1999)
-Robert John Russell “Does ‘the God Who Acts’ Really Act?: New Approaches to Divine Action in the Light of Science,”
Theology Today 51 (March 1997): 43-65
- Robert J. Russell and Joshua M. Moritz, eds. The Randomness of Nature and The Providence of God (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2017)
-John Sanders, The God Who Risks: a Theology of Providence (InterVarsity Press, 1998)
-Thomas F. Tracy, “Divine action and quantum theory,” Zygon 35:4 (2000)
-Thomas F. Tracy, “Evolutionary Theologies and Divine Action” Theology and Science 6:1 (February 2008): 107-116
-Keith Ward, Divine Action: Examining God’s Role in an Open and Emergent Universe (Templeton Press, 2007)
-Stephen J. Wykstra, “The Problem of Miracle in the Apologetic from History,” Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 30
(1978) 154-63
-Amos Yong, The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action (Eerdmans, 2011)
-Amos Yong, “Divining 'Divine Action' in Theology and Science: A Review Essay,” Zygon 43:1 (March 2008): 191-200
-Keith Ward, "Believing in Miracles," Zygon 37:3 (2002): 741-50

Advanced Level
-Christian Berg, “Leaving Behind the God-of-the-Gaps: Towards a Theological Response to Scientific Limit Questions” in
Expanding Humanity's Vision Of God, Robert Herrmann, ed. (Templeton Foundation Press, 2009)
-Philip Clayton, “Natural Law and Divine Action: The Search for an Expanded Theory of Causation” Zygon 39:3 (September
2004): 615-636
-Michael Dodds, Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science & Thomas Aquinas (Catholic University of America Press,
2012)
-Robert M. Grant, Miracle and Natural Law in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Thought (North-Holland, 1952)
-W. Pannenberg & N.H. Gregersen, The Historicity of Nature: Essays on Science and Theology (Templeton Press, 2008)
-Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, John Polkinghorne, eds. Quantum Mechanics: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action (CTNS and Vatican Observatory, 2001)
-Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, and C.J. Isham, eds. Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives
on Divine Action. 2nd Edition (CTNS and Vatican Observatory, 1999)
-Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, and Arthur R. Peacocke, eds. Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine
Action (CTNS and Vatican Observatory, 1995)
-Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Theo C. Meyering, Michael A. Arbib Neuroscience and the Person: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action (CTNS and Vatican Observatory, 1999)
-Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, William Stoeger, Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action: Twenty Years of Challenge
and Progress (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)
-Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, and Francisco J. Ayala, eds. Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action (CTNS and Vatican Observatory, 1999)
-Ted Peters & Nathan Hallanger, eds. God’s Action in Nature’s World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell (Ashgate, 2006)
-Peter Harrison, “Newtonian Science, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas 56 (1995) 531-53
-Robert A. Larmer, ed. Questions of Miracle (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996)
-Nicholas Saunders, Divine action and Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
-F. LeRon Shults, Nancey Murphy and Robert John Russell, eds. Philosophy, Science and Divine Action (Brill, 2009)
-Richard Swinburne, Miracles (Macmillan, 1989)
-Thomas F. Tracy, The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994)
-Jitse van der Meer, ed. Facets of Faith and Science: Interpreting God's action in the world (University Press of America, 1996)
-Keith Ward, “Miracles and Testimony” Religious Studies 21 (1985) 131-45

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5. Doctrine of Revelation: How do special revelation and general revelation relate to science
Web Resources
-Video: Mark Harris, “Creation in the Bible and in Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1763955/1763960.m4v
-Video: “Reading the book of Nature: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Laws of Nature”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1714466/1714471.m4v
-Audio: Ernest Lucas, “Science and the Bible: Are they incompatible? The creation story as a test case”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/CIS/lucas/lucas_lecture.mp3

Published Resources
-R. J. Berry, God's Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature, (T&T Clark, 2003)
-Craig Blomberg, Can We Still Believe the Bible (Baker, 2014)
-John H. Brooke, “Inspiration in Science and Religion: Historical Perspectives,” in Inspiration in Science and Religion Michael
Fuller, ed. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012)1-20
-William P. Brown, The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder (Oxford, 2010)
-William P. Brown, ed. Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as Scripture (Westminster John Knox, 2007)
-Michael Goheen, “Scriptural Revelation, Creational Revelation, and Natural Science: The Issue” in Facets of Faith and
Science. Volume 4: Interpreting God's Action in the World, Jitse M. van der Meer, ed. (Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in
Faith and Science, 1996)
-John Haught, Mystery and Promise: A Theology of Revelation (Liturgical Press, 1993)
-Peter Hess, “Two Books,” in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, ed. J Wentzel Van Huyssteen (Macmillan Reference, 2003)
-Christopher Knight, Wrestling With the Divine: Religion, Science, and Revelation (Fortress, 2001)
-Joshua Moritz, “The Hermeneutics of Science and Scripture and Emergent Levels of Meaning,” Theology & Science 12:1
(2014)
-Terence L. Nichols, The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism (Brazos Press, 2003)
-Mark A. Noll, Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America (Harper & Row, 1987)
-Olaf Pedersen, The Two Books: Historical Notes on Some Interactions Between Natural Science and Theology (Vatican
Observatory Foundation, 2007)
-N.T. Wright, “How Can The Bible Be Authoritative?” Vox Evangelica 21 (1991) 7–32

6. Theological Anthropology: Human nature


6.1 Theological understandings of human uniqueness and the Imago Dei in light of evolution
Web Resources
-Video: Melvin Konner, “Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit”
http://www.counterbalance.org/stanford/konner-body.html?b=quest/free-body.html
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Who Are We? Biblical and theological perspectives on what it means to be human”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1654882/1654887.m4v
-Video: Nancey Murphy, “A Non-Reductive Physicalist Account of Human Nature”
http://www.counterbalance.org/evp-mind/index-frame.html
-Video: John Polkinghorne – “Evolution and chance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pcUWndoK8
-Video: Tim O'Connor, “The Emergence of Human Persons: Between the Scylla of Dualism and the Charybdis of
Reductionism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1489914/1489919.m4v
-Video: Keith Ward “Are humans special?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6Lpm-3ZUU
-Video: Kerry Fulcher, “Evolution: An Unfolding Creation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Se0Rw4COSs
-Video: Keith Ward, “Does Evolution Threaten Christian Theology?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_NGxQBAfTE
-Video: N.T. Wright, “God and Evolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPCTnGMRFM

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Ian Barbour, Nature, Human Nature and God (Fortress Press, 2002)
-Matthew Barrett and Ardel B. Caneday, ed., Four Views on the Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013)
-R. J. Berry, “Adam or Adamah?” Science & Christian Belief 23 (2011)
-C. John Collins, Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?: Who They Were and Why You Should Care (Crossway, 2011)
-A. Day, “Adam, anthropology and the Genesis record,” Science & Christian Belief 10 (1998) 115-143
-Helen De Cruz and Yves De Maeseneer, “The imago dei: evolutionary and theological perspectives,” Zygon 49:1 (2014):95-
100

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-Daniel Harlow, “After Adam: Reading Genesis in an Age of Evolutionary Science,” Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith
62:3 (Sept 2010): 179-195
-Denis Lamoureux, John H. Walton, C. John Collins, William D. Barrick, Gregory A. Boyd, Philip G. Ryken, Four Views on the
Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013)
-Joshua Moritz, “Evolutionary biology and theological anthropology,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological
Anthropology, Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro, eds. (Ashgate, 2015)
-Joshua Moritz, “The Search for Adam Revisited: Evolution, Biblical Literalism, and the Question of Human Uniqueness”
Theology and Science 9: 4 (2011)
-Richard N. Ostling, “The Search for the Historical Adam,” Christianity Today (June 2011): 23 - 27
-John Schneider, “Recent Genetic Science and Christian Theology on Human Origins: An ‘Aesthetic Supralapsarianism’”
Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith 62:3 (Sept 2010): 196-212
Intermediate Level
-John Cooper, “Created for Everlasting Life: Can Theistic Evolution Provide an Adequate Christian Account of Human
Nature?” Zygon 48 (2013) 479–95
-John Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate (Eerdmans, 1989)
-David Fergusson, “Humans Created According to the Imago Dei: An Alternative Proposal” Zygon (2014): 439-53
-Christopher L. Fisher, Human Significance in Theology and the Natural Sciences: An Ecumenical Perspective with Reference to
Pannenberg, Rahner, and Zizioulas (Pickwick, 2010)
-Noreen Herzfeld, In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit (Fortress Press, 2002)
-J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, “Human Origins and Religious Awareness,” Studia Theologica: Nordic Journal of Theology 59:2
(2005)
-Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Creation and Humanity: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World (Eerdmans
Publishing, 2015)
-Joshua Moritz, “Human Uniqueness, the Other Hominids, and ‘Anthropocentrism of the Gaps’ in the Religion and Science
Dialogue,” Zygon 47:1 (March 2012): 65-96
-Gregory R. Peterson, “The Evolution of Consciousness and the Theology of Nature,” Zygon 34:2 (June 1999)
-F. Leron Shults, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality (Eerdmans, 2003)
Advanced Level
-David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford University Press, 1996)
-Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-William Hasker, The Emergent Self (Cornell University Press, 1999)
- J. P. Moreland and Scott Rae, Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics (IVP Academic, 2000)
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, trans. Matthew J. O'Connell (T & T Clark, 1999)
-J. Wentzel van Huysteen, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (Eerdmans, 2006)
-Malcolm Jeeves, ed. Rethinking Human Nature: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Eerdmans, 2011)
-Hans Madueme and Michael Reeves, eds., Adam, the Fall and Original Sin: Theological, Biblical and Scientific Perspectives
(Baker Academic, 2014)
-Christoph Schwöbel and Colin Gunton eds. Persons, Divine and Human: King’s College Essays in Theological Anthropology (T
& T Clark, 1991)
-Wesley J. Wildman, Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life
(Ashgate, 2009)
-N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Fortress, 2003)

6.2 Theological understandings of human nature in light of neuroscience


Web Resources
-Video: Warren Brown, “Reconciling Neuropsychology and Theology”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1294638/1294642.m4v
-Video: Warren Brown, “Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? The Brain, Mind and Non-reductive Physicalism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/650381/650385.m4v
-Video: Warren Brown, “The Neuroscience of Virtue”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/652872/652876.m4v
-Video: Bill Newsome, “Theology and the Neurosciences”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1230255/1230259.m4v

Published Resources
-Philip Clayton, “Neuroscience, the person, and God: An emergentist account,” Zygon 35:3 (September 2000) 613–52
-Joel B. Green, ed. What About the Soul?: Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology (Abingdon, 2004)
-Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili, Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (Ballantine, 2001)
-Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili, The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience (Fortress, 1999)
-Malcolm Jeeves, “Human nature without a soul?” European Review 12:1 (2003)
-Gregory Peterson, Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences (Fortress Press, 2002)
-James D. Proctor, ed. Envisioning Nature, Science, and Religion (Templeton Press, 2009)
-Kevin S. Seybold, Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion (Ashgate, 2007)

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6.3 Theories of emergence
Web Resources
Video: Ian Barbour, “Why is Emergence Significant?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1764
-Video: Warren Brown, “Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? The Brain, Mind and Non-reductive Physicalism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/650381/650385.m4v
Video: Peter Clarke, “Brains and Machines”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR142%20Peter%20Clarke.mov
Video: Philip Clayton, “Concepts of Emergence in Science and Religion”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Clayton%20seminar.mov
Video: Philip Clayton, “Emergence”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293780/1293784.m4v
Video: Philip Clayton, “How Can Emergence Explain Reality?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWclhC7WmE
Philip Clayton, “Why is Emergence Significant?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1991
Video: Francis Collins, “Why is Emergence Significant?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2017
Video: Barbara Drossel, “Complex Systems, Emergence and God”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1777115/1777120.m4v
Video: George Ellis, “Emergence, Top Down Causation and Reductionism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1472806/1472812.mp3
-Video: Nancey Murphy, “A Non-Reductive Physicalist Account of Human Nature”
http://www.counterbalance.org/evp-mind/index-frame.html
Video: Robert John Russell, “Why is Emergence Significant?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2922

Published Resources
-Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
-Antonella Corradini and Timothy O’Connor, eds. Emergence in Science and Philosophy: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of
Science (Routledge, 2010)
-Philip Clayton, “Neuroscience, the person, and God: An emergentist account,” Zygon 35:3 (September 2000) 613–52
-Philip. Clayton, The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion (Oxford University
Press, 2006)
-Philip Clayton, Mind and Emergence: from quantum to consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2004)
-Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen, Information and the nature of reality: from physics to metaphysics (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
-John Dupre, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Harvard University Press, 1995)
-Jacob Klapwijk, Purpose in the Living World? Creation and Emergent Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-Nancey Murphy and William R. Stoeger, editors Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons (Oxford University
Press, 2007)
-Nancey Murphy, George Ellis, Timothy O'Connor, Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will (Springer, 2009)
-Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False (Oxford,
2012)

6.4 What is the range of the imago dei?


-Celia Deane-Drummond, Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for a New Science (Cassell, 1997)
-Nancey Murphy and Christopher Knight, eds. Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Religion
(Ashgate, 2010)
-Brent Waters, From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World (Ashgate, 2006)
-Joshua Moritz, “Evolutionary biology and theological anthropology,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological
Anthropology, Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro, eds. (Ashgate, 2015)

7 Sin, the Fall, and the Problem of Evil:


7.1 Is the existence of evil consistent with the goodness of God?
Web Resources
Video: Alvin Plantinga, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2831
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2832
Video: Peter Van Inwagen, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3178
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3179

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Video: Eleonore Stump, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3066
Video: John Cottingham, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2041
Video: Hugh McCann, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4091
Video: Michael Almeida, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/47213
Video: Richard Swinburne, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3656
Video: Robin Collins, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2030
Video: Nancey Murphy, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2772
Video: John Leslie, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4098
Video: John Hick, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2397
Video: Holmes Rolston III, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2881
Video: Paul Fiddes, “Does Evil disprove God?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2218
Video: John Polkinghorne, “Does God Interact with his Suffering World?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-P6XduHvZA
Video: Jeff Schloss, Alister McGrath and others, “Evolution and The Fall of Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGtVjQfqddY
Article: Trent Dougherty "Skeptical Theism," entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skeptical-theism/

Published Resources
-Marilyn McCord Adams, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Cornell University Press, 1999)
-Marilyn McCord Adams, Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
-Robert Adams, and Marilyn Adams, eds. The Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, 1990)
-Michael Bergmann, Michael Murray, Michael Rea, Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (Oxford
University Press 2011)
-Richard J. Bernstein, Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (Blackwell, 2002)
-Gregory A. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy (Inter Varsity Press, 2001)
-William Cenker, ed. Evil and the Response of World Religion (Paragon, 1997)
-Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Baker Books, 2011)
-Stephen T. Davis, ed. Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy (WJKP, 2001)
-Gordon Graham, Evil and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
-David Ray Griffin, God, Power, and Evil: A Process Theodicy (University Press of America, 1991)
-Gustavo Gutiérrez, On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent (Orbis, 1987)
-John Hick, Evil and the God of Love (Harper & Row, 1978)
-Daniel Howard-Snyder, ed. The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana University Press, 1996)
-Daniel Howard-Snyder, and Paul Moser, eds. Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
-Terence E. Fretheim, The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective (Fortress, 1984)
-D. Z. Phillips, The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God (SCM Press, 2004)
-Bruce Langtry, God, the Best, and Evil (Oxford University Press, 2008)
-C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (Harper Collins, 2009)
-Justin McBrayer, Daniel Howard-Snyder, eds. The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil (John Wiley & Sons, 2014)
-Nancy Murphy and George F. R. Ellis, On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (Fortress, 1996)
-Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil (Eerdmans, 1977)
-Hans Schwarz, “Evil: A Historical and Theological Perspective” (Fortress, 1995)
-Eleonore Stump, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford University Press, 2010)
-Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil (Clarendon Press, 19980)
-Peter van Inwagen, The Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, 2006)
-Peter van Inwagen, "The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God" in Divine and Human Action: Essays in the
Metaphysics of Theism, ed. T. Morris (Cornell University Press, 1988) 211–235
-Keith Ward, Pascal's Fire: Scientific Faith And Religious Understanding (Oneworld, 2006)
-N. T. Wright, Evil and the Justice of God (Inter Varsity Press, 2006)
-Stephen Wykstra, “The Humean Obstacle to Evidential Arguments from Suffering: On Avoiding the Evils of ‘Appearance,’”
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 16 (1984) 73–94

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7.2 What is the origin of “natural evil”? How does one reconcile the goodness of creation with
Entropy, chance, evolutionary suffering, death, predation, extinction?
Web Resources
Video: Roger Abbott, “Are Natural Disasters Natural? Ethical, theological and pastoral issues”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1654738/1654743.m4v
Video: Denis Alexander, “Theological Issues arising from Evolution”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1640117/1640122.m4v
Video: Michael Murray, “Evil in Evolution - a Philosopher's Perspective”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1788419/1788424.m4v
Video: John Polkinghorne, “Creation, Evil and Time”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1265728/1265732.m4v
Video: Jeff Schloss, “Evolutionary evil and a good creation?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1228234/1228238.m4v
Video: Keith Ward, “Why does nature suffer? Evolution, evil and the goodness of God?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1968397/1968402.m4v
Video: Joshua Moritz: “Contingency, Convergence, Evolution, and Evil”
https://vimeo.com/128338306
Video: Michael Murray, “Animal Suffering - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/848853/848857.m4v
J Video: eff Schloss, “Animal Suffering: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1166986/1166991.m4v
Video: Keith Ward, “The Problem of Evil in Evolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPrb4Y7cco
Video: Keith Ward, Richard Bauckham, and N.T. Wright “Suffering and Evil” (Part I and part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrFCmUkQ4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wYOZSh4GU

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-Francisco J. Ayala, Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion (Joseph Henry Press, 2007)
-John J. Bimson, “Reconsidering a ‘cosmic fall’’’, Science & Christian Belief 18:1 (2006), 63-81
-Christopher Southgate, The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil (Westminster/John Knox, 2008)

Intermediate Level
-Willem Drees, ed. Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value (Routledge, 2003)
-Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian Be A Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press,
2001)
-Joshua Moritz, “Animal Suffering, Evolution, and the Origins of Evil: Toward a ‘Free Creatures’ Defense,” Zygon 49: 2 (June
2014) 348–380
- Robert J. Russell and Joshua M. Moritz, eds. The Randomness of Nature and The Providence of God (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2017)
-Christopher Southgate, “God and Evolutionary Evil: Theodicy in the Light of Darwinism” Zygon 37:4 (2002): 803–21
-Christopher Southgate, “Divine Glory in a Darwinian World,” Zygon 49:4 (December 2014) 784–807
-Christopher Southgate, “Re-Reading Genesis, John, and Job: A Christian Response to Darwinism,” Zygon 46:2:370-395
-Ronald Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (IVP Academic, 2014)
-Keith Ward, Pascal's Fire: Scientific Faith And Religious Understanding (Oneworld, 2006)

Advanced Level
-Gaymon Bennett, Ted Peters, Martinez Hewlett, Robert John Russell, The Evolution of Evil (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008)
-Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, 2013)
-Terence E. Fretheim, Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters (Baker, 2010)
-Louise Hickman, Chance or Providence: Religious Perspectives on Divine Action (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)
-Jay McDaniel, Of God and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989)
-Michael Murray, Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Oxford University Press, 2008)
-Nancey Murphy, Robert John Russell, and S. J. William R. Stoeger, eds. Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on
Natural Evil (Vatican Observatory Publications & Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2007)
-George L. Murphy, The Cosmos in the Light of the Cross (Trinity Press, 2003)

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7.3 How does one understand original sin in light of science?
Web Resources
-Video: Jack Mahoney “Evolution and Original Sin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_qkMuWWzw
-Video: Dan Harlow, “Adam and Eve, the Fall, and Original Sin in Light of Human Evolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfH8cKe-WU
-Video: Keith Ward, “Does Evolution Threaten Christian Theology?”-Original Sin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_NGxQBAfTE

Published Resources
Introductory Level
-J. Matthew Ashley, “Original Sin, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Science of Evolution,” in Jitse van der Meer and Scott
Mandelbrote, eds., Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (Brill, 2008) 407–36
Intermediate Level
-D. P. Domning and M. K. Hellwig. Original selfishness: original sin and evil in the light of evolution (Ashgate, 2006)
-J. Chappell, “Raymund Schwager: Integrating the Fall and Original Sin with Evolutionary Theory,” Theology and Science,
(2012)
-Christian de Duve, Neil Patterson, Genetics of Original Sin: The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity (Yale
University Press, 2010)
-John Mullen, “Can Evolutionary Psychology Confirm Original Sin?” Faith and Philosophy 24:3 (2007): 268-283
-Jerry Korsmeyer,., Evolution and Eden: Balancing Original Sin and Contemporary Science (Paulist Press, 1998)
-Klaus A. Miczek, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, eds. Neuroscience of Aggression (Springer, 2014)
-Ronald Osborn, Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (IVP Academic, 2014)
-R. E. Tremblay, “Developmental origins of disruptive behaviour problems: the 'original sin' hypothesis, epigenetics and
their consequences for prevention,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2010)
-Patricia Williams, Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (Fortress Press, 2001)

Advanced Level
-Ian McFarland, In Adam’s Fall: A Christian Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin (Wiley - Blackwell, 2010)
-Jesse Couenhoven, Stricken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpability in Augustinian Theology (Oxford
University Press, 2013)

8 Christology, Incarnation, and Science: What are the theological implications of evolution with
regard to the incarnation and nature of Christ?
Web Resources
-Video: Ron Cole-Turner, “Response to Gregersen on Deep Incarnation”
https://vimeo.com/62094458
-Video: Joshua Moritz, “Response to Gregersen on Deep Incarnation”
https://vimeo.com/61983496
-Video: Paul Santmire, “Toward a Cosmic Christology”
https://vimeo.com/15582832
-Video: Brent Waters, “Flesh made data: the post human project in the light of incarnation”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1601381/1601386.m4v

Published Resources
-Ron Cole-Turner, “Incarnation Deep and Wide: A Response to Niels Gregersen,” Theology and Science, 11:4 (2013)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Christ and Evolution: Wonder and Wisdom (SCM Press, 2009)
-Denis Edwards, Jesus and the Cosmos (Paulist Press, 1991)
-Denis Edwards, Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology (Liturgical Press, 2014)
-Niels Henrik Gregersen, “Cur deus caro: Jesus and the Cosmos Story” Theology and Science, 11:4 (2013)
-Niels Henrik Gregersen, ed. Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Fortress Press, 2015)
-Colin E. Gunton, Christ and Creation (Paternoster, 1992)
-Christopher Knight, The God of Nature: Incarnation and Contemporary Science (Fortress Press, 2007)
-Joshua Moritz, “Deep Incarnation and the Imago Dei: The Cosmic Scope of the Incarnation in Light of the Messiah as the
Renewed Adam” Theology and Science, 11:4 (2013)
-F. LeRon Shults Christology and Science (Ashgate, 2008)

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9 Soteriology and Science:
9.1 Theological models of the atonement in light of evolution; Do animals and nature need to be
redeemed? Why, and toward what end?; Are Neanderthals and extraterrestrials saved?;
Web Resources
Video: Celia Deane-Drummond: “The Wisdom of the Liminal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22f61jVEmWQ
Andrew Linzey: “Can Christianity become good news for animals?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3uIWDiPIto
Video: Joshua Moritz: “Chosen from Among the Animals”
https://vimeo.com/22540440
Video: Oliver Putz: “What Good is God to Animals?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRCPINFMqk
Video: Oliver Putz: “God’s Self-Communication in an Evolving World: Evolution, Self, and Transcendental Being”
https://vimeo.com/124840088
Video: “Evangelicals and Animals”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zok-8veWrY

Published Resources
-David Clough, On Animals: Volume I: Systematic Theology (T&T Clark, 2012)
-Oliver Crisp, God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology (T & T Clark, 2009)
-Stephen T. Davis, ed., The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God (Oxford
University Press, 2002)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser, David L. Clough, Animals as Religious Subjects: Transdisciplinary
Perspectives (T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2013)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, and David Clough, ed. Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals (SCM Press, 2009)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming (Eerdmans, 2014)
-Michael J. Gilmour, Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals (Wipf and Stock, 2014)
-Elizabeth A. Johnson, Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love (Bloomsbury, 2013)
-Andrew Linzey, Animal Gospel (Westminster John Knox Press, 2000)
-Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (SCM Press/University of Illinois Press, 1994)
-Andrew Linzey, Creatures of the Same God: Explorations in Animal Theology (Lantern Books, 2009)
-Andrew Linzey and Dan Cohn-Sherbok, After Noah: Animals and the Liberation of Theology (Bloomsbury Academic, 1997)
-Ryan Patrick McLaughlin, Christian Theology and the Status of Animals: The Dominant Tradition and Its Alternatives
(MacMillan Palgrave, 2014)
-Joshua Moritz, “Does Jesus Save the Neanderthals?: Theological Perspectives on the Evolutionary Origins and Boundaries of
Human Nature,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 54:1 (Spring 2015) 51-60
-Joshua Moritz, “Animals and the Image of God in the Bible and Beyond” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 48:2 (2011) 134-46
-Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (Cornell University Press, 1995)
-Stephen H. Webb, On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals (Oxford University Press, 1998)
-Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton, eds. A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia
University Press, 2006)

9.2 How are conversion and sanctification related to the brain?: plasticity, psychology of
conversion and neuroscience of conversion
-Justin Barrett, T. Porter, Robert Emmons, and S. A. Schnikter, “Different Styles Reach Different Kids: An empirical enquiry
into Young Life Camping Outreach Programmes in the USA and Europe,” Journal of Youth and Theology, 8 (2009) 10-27
-Dean Blevins, "Neuroscience, John Wesley, and the Christian Life," Wesleyan Theological Journal 44:1 (2009): 227-237
-Paul Markham, Rewired: Exploring Religious Conversion (Pickwick Publications, 2007)
-Tenelle J. Porter and Justin Barrett, “The Truth about over-busy teenagers,” Group Magazine, 6 (2009) 74-81
-S. A. Schnitker, T. J. Felke, J. L. Barrett, & R. A. Emmons, “Longitudinal study of religious and spiritual transformation in
adolescents attending Young Life summer camp: Assessing the epistemic, intrapsychic, and moral sociability functions of
conversion,” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 6 (2014) 83-93
-S. A. Schnitker, T. J. Felke, J. L. Barrett, & R. A. Emmons, “Virtue development following spiritual transformation in
adolescents attending evangelistic summer camp,” Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 33 (2014) 22-35
-S. A. Schnitker, T. Porter, R. Emmons, and J. Barrett, ”Attachment predicts adolescent conversions at Young Life religious
summer camps,” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 22 (2012)198-215
-Léon Turner, Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self Farnham (Ashgate, 2008)
-Fraser Watts and Geoff Dumbreck, eds. Head and Heart Perspectives from Religion and Psychology (Templeton Press, 2013)

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10 Eschatology: How does science related to the bodily resurrection? What relationship, if any, would
a realized new creation have to the current created order? Given an expanding universe and
ultimate heat death, what is our hope for the distant future?
Web Resources
-Video: Abraham (Avi) Loeb, “What is the Far Future of the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3698
-Video: Max Tegmark, “What is the Far Future of the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4277
-Video: Andre Linde, “What is the Far Future of the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2612
-Video: Alexander Vilenkin, “What is the Far Future of the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4167
-Video: Owen Gingerich, “What is the Far Far Future of Humans in the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2271
-Video: Steven J. Dick, “What is the Far Far Future of Humans in the Universe?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2161
- Video: Robin Collins, “What is the Far Future of Intelligence in the Future?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2035
- Video: Paul Davies, “What is the Far Future of Intelligence in the Future?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2090
- Video: Freeman Dyson, “What is the Far Future of Intelligence in the Future?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4588
-Video: Michael Northcott, “Eschatology in the Anthropocene: From the Chronos of Deep Time to the Kairos of the Age of
Humans”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1822840/1822845.m4v
-Video: Robert J. Russell, “Cosmology, Philosophy, and Theology in Creative Mutual Interaction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAFW5wep198
-Video: Robert J. Russell, “Physical Cosmology and Christian Eschatology: Consonance or Dissonance?”
http://www.counterbalance.org/eschat/bobr-body.html?b=events/berk601-body.html
-Video: David Wilkinson, “Eschatology and the Future of the Universe”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1208868/1208872.m4v
-Video: John Polkinghorne, “Eschatology and Anthropology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_jLRNckMY
-Video: Michael Welker, “Eschatology and Anthropology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke_a1_H69bw
Published Resources
Introductory Level
-R. J. Berry, “Eden & Ecology: Evolution & Eschatology” Science & Christian Belief, 19: 1 (April 2007)
-J. R. Middleton, A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (Baker, 2014)
-Gregory S. Cootsona, Creation and Last Things: At the Intersection of Science and Theology (Westminster John Knox Press,
2002)
-Ted Peters, “The Physical Body of Immortality,” in Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate, 2003)
-Daniel Saudek, “Science and Eschatology in the Open Universe” Science & Christian Belief, 23:2 (2011): 133-157
-Robert John Russell, “Eschatology,” in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, eds. James Stump and Alan
Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)
-David Wilkinson, “The end of it all contemporary cosmology and Christian eschatology in dialogue.” In Creation and
complexity interdisciplinary issues in science and religion, C. Ledger and S. Pickard eds. (Australian Theological Forum,
2005)
-N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (HarperOne, 2008)
Intermediate Level
-Paul Davies, The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (Basic Books, 1994)
-John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (Routledge 1998)
-John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World (Yale University Press, 2002)
-Ted Peters, Anticipating Omega (Vandenhoedk & Ruprecht, 2006)
-Robert John Russell, Cosmology, Evolution, and Resurrection Hope: Theology and Science in Creative Mutual Interaction
(Pandora Press, 2006)
-David Wilkinson, Christian Eschatology and the Physical Universe (T&T Clark, 2010)
Advanced Level
-John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker eds The End of the World and The Ends of God (SCM, 2000)
-George Ellis, ed. The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective (Templeton Foundation Press, 2002)
-Ted Peters, Robert John Russell and Michael Welker, eds. Resurrection Theological and Scientific Assessments (Eerdmans,
2002)

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11 Pneumatology
Web Resources
-Video: Wolfhart Pannenberg: “God the Spirit - and Natural Science”
http://www.counterbalance.org/pberg/index-frame.html
Published Resources
-Denis Edwards, Breath of Life: A Theology of the Creator Spirit (Orbis Books, 2004)
-A.K. Gabriel, “Pneumatological perspectives for a theology of nature: The Holy Spirit in relation to ecology and technology,”
Journal of Pentecostal Theology (BRILL, 2007)
-Timothy Harvie, “God as a Field of Force: Personhood and Science in Wolfhart Pannenberg's Pneumatology,” Heythrop
Journal 52:2 (2011): 250-259
-Robert L. Hubbard, Jr., “The Spirit and Creation,” in Presence, Power and Promise: The Role of the Spirit of God in the Old
Testament, David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner eds. (Intervarsity Press, 2011): 71-91
- Jurgen Moltmann, God in Creation (Harper & Row, 1981)
-Thomas Jay Oord, “The Divine Spirit as Causal and Personal” Zygon 48:2 (June 2013): 466–477
-Wolfhart Pannenberg, “God As Spirit – And Natural Science” in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 36:4 (December
2001): 783-794
-James K.A. Smith and Amos Yong, Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences (Indiana University
Press, 2010)
-Michael Welker, ed. The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox Realms
(Eerdmans, 2012)
-Telford Work, “Pneumatological Relations and Christian Disunity in Theology-Science Dialogue” Zygon 43:4 (2008):897-
908
-Amos Yong, The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action (Eerdmans, 2011)

12 Spirituality and Ecclesiology


12.1 Science and spirituality (cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, etc.)
Web Resources
-Video: Simon Dein, “Religion, spirituality and mental health: current controversies and future directions”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1667817/1667822.m4v
-Video: Bob White and R.J Berry, “Biodiversity and Spirituality”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/746115/746119.m4v
Published Resources
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Wonder and Wisdom: Conversations in Science, Spirituality and Theology (DLT, 2006)
-Michael Ruse, Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
-Warren Brown and Brad D. Strawn, The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology and the Church
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)

12.2 Spirituality and “social capital”


Published Resources
-Michael O'Sullivan and Bernadette Flanagan, Spiritual Capital: Spirituality in Practice in Christian Perspective (Ashgate,
2012)
-Laurence R. Iannaccone, “Religious Participation: A Human Capital Approach,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
29:297-314

12.3 Science of community (evolution and cognitive science of sociality)


Web Resources
-Video: William Schweiker, “Religious Ethics and Social Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P1PObiTLyo
Published Resources
-Don Ambrose, Tracy Cross Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds (Springer Science, 2009)
-Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary, “The need to belong: Desire for Interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human
motivation,” Psychological Bulletin 117 (1995): 497–529
-Roy Baumeister, I. M. Bauer, and S. A. Lloyd, “Choice, free will, and religion,” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 2, (2010)
67–82
-Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman, The Evolution of Religion:
Studies, Theories, & Critiques (Collins Foundation Press, 2008)
-Sarah Coakley, Faith, Rationality and the Passions (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)
-James W. Ellor, ed., Methods in Religion, Spirituality & Aging (Routledge, 2009)

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-Daniel Escher “How does religion promote forgiveness? Linking beliefs, orientations, and practices” Journal for the Scientific
Study of Religion, 52:1 (2013): 100–19
-Armin W. Geertz, Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture (Routledge, 2014)
-William Grassie, The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring spirituality from the outside in and bottom up (Palgrave Macmillan,
2011)
-R. David Hayward and Neal Krause “Patterns of Change in Prayer Activity, Expectancies, and Contents During Older
Adulthood,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52:1 (March 2013): 17–34
-Christopher Henshilwood, Francesco D'Errico, eds. Homo Symbolicus: The Dawn of Language, Imagination and Spirituality
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011)
-Ralph Hood, Peter Hill, Bernard Spilka, The Psychology of Religion (Guilford, 2009)
-Harold Koenig, Michael McCullough, and David Larson, eds. Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford University Press,
2001)
-Neal Krause, Aging in the Church: How Social Relationships Affect Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2008)
-Neal Krause and Elena Bastida, “Church-Based Social Relationships, Belonging, and Health Among Older Mexican
Americans,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50:2 (2011):397–409
-Neal Krause, R. D. Hayward. “Religious involvement and death anxiety,” Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 69:2 (Aug
2014): 59-78
-Neal Krause, “Gratitude toward God, stress, and health in late life,” Research on Aging 28 (2006):163–183
-Neal Krause, “Social support,” in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Robert H. Binstock, Linda K. George, eds..
(Academic Press; 2006) 272–294
-Neal Krause, “Receiving social support at church when stressful life events arise: Do Catholics and Protestants differ?”
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 7:1 (2010) 51-59
-Neal Krause, Keith M. Wulff, “Church-based social ties, a sense of belonging in a congregation, and physical health status,”
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 15 (2005): 73–93
-Neal Krause, Linda Chatters, Tina Meltzer, David L. Morgan, “Negative interaction in the church: Insights from focus groups
with older adults,” Review of Religious Research 41 (2000) 510–533
- E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley, Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University
Press, 1990)
- Kathleen Lawton-Row, “Forgiveness as a mediator in the religiosity-health relationship,” Psychology of Religion and
Spirituality 2 (2010):1–16
- Jeffey Levin and Kyriakos S. Markides, “Religious attendance and subjective health,” Journal for the Scientific Study of
Religion, 25 (1986): 31–40
-Raymond F. Paloutzian and Crystal L. Park, Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Guilford Press, 2013)
-Steven Reiss, “Why People Turn to Religion: A Motivational Analysis” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39 (2000):
47–52
-Kevin S. Seybold, Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion (Ashgate, 2007)
-James A. Van Slyke Theology and the Science of Moral Action: Virtue Ethics (Routledge, 2012)
-Harvey Whitehouse and Luther H. Martin, eds. Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition (Rowman
Altamira, 2004)
-Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw, Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Rowman
Altamira, 2004)

12.4 Science, the sacraments, and liturgy


Published Resources
-Alexei Nesteruk, The Universe as Communion: Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science (T & T Clarke, 2008)
-John Polkinghorne, Searching for Truth: Lenten Meditations on Science and Faith (Crossroad, 1996)
-Mark Smith, The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1 (Fortress Press, 2010)

12.5 Research on spirituality and healthcare


Web Resources
-Video: Harold Koenig “Medicine, Religion, and Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSv_AlS5fk
-Video: Kenneth Pargament, “Implications of Spirituality for Health and Well-Being”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qezB_uW4KM
-Video: Amanda Porterfield, “Healing: History of Christianity: Good News?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnCYardkc0
-Video: George Handzo, “Cultural and Spiritual Assessments in Healthcare Quality, HealthCare Chaplaincy Network”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IL8m6-6ruk

Published Resources
-Kirk A. Bingaman, The Power of Neuroplasticity for Pastoral and Spiritual Care (Lexington Books, 2014)
-Frederic C. Craigie, Positive Spirituality in Health Care (Hillcrest Publishing Group, 2010)
-J. Harold Ellens, The Healing Power of Spirituality: How Faith Helps Humans Thrive (ABC-CLIO, 2009)
-Christopher Ellison and Robert Hummer, Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States
(Rutgers University Press, 2010)

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-R. John Elford and D. Gareth Jones (eds.) A Tangled Web: Medicine and Theology in Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2009)
-Charles H. Hackney and Glenn S. Sanders, “Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta–Analysis of Recent Studies” Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, 421(2003) 43–55
-Harold Koenig and Gregg Lewis, The Healing Connection: The Story of a Physician’s Search for the Link between Faith and
Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2004)
-Harold Koenig, Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurement, Statistics, and Resources (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2012)
-Harold Koenig, Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What (Templeton Foundation Press, 2007)
-Harold Koenig, Dana King, Verna B. Carson, Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford University Press, 2012)
-Harold Koenig, The Pastoral Care of Children (Routledge, 2012)
-Jeff Levin and Larry Dossey, God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
-Jeff Levin and Keith G. Meador, eds., Healing to All Their Flesh: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Spirituality, Theology, and
Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2013)
-Charles W. Mark, Spiritual Intelligence and the Neuroplastic Brain: A Contextual Interpretation of Modern History
(AuthorHouse, 2010)
-Ronald L. Numbers & Darrel W. Amundsen, Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
-Thomas G. Plante and Allen C. Sherman, Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives (Guilford Press, 2001)
-Thomas G. Plante, Religion, Spirituality, and Positive Psychology: Understanding the Psychological Fruits of Faith (ABC-CLIO,
2012)
-Michael L. Spezio, “Narrative in holistic healing: Empathy, sympathy and simulation theory,” In J. D. Koss-Chioino & P.
Hefner eds. Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives
(Rowman Altamira, 2006)
-Fraser Watts (ed.) Spiritual Healing: Scientific and Religious Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

13 Ethics
13.1 Evolution of morality
Web Resources
-Video: David Brooks, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_1.flv
-Video: Michael Gazzaniga, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_2.flv
-Video: Jonathan Haidt, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_3.flv
-Video: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYsx6WArKY
-Video: Steven Quartz, “Evolution and the Ethical Brain”
http://www.templeton.org.s3.amazonaws.com/vid/big_questions/darwin200/darwin200_4.flv
-Video: Jeff Schloss and Nancey Murphy, “A Dialogue on Biology, Morality and Theology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1nrOuzFDeU
-Video: Jeff Schloss, “Evolution and Altruism”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/schloss-frame.html
-Video: David Lahti, “The Evolution of Morality”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1188499/1188503.m4v
-Video: Frans de Waal and Jeff Schloss, “Morals Without God?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1asMfteB98
-Video: Jeffrey Schloss, “Morality is both bottom-up and top-down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5t1fEckINo
Published Resources
- John C. Avise and Francisco Ayala, In the Light of Evolution: Volume IV: The Human Condition (National Academy of
Sciences, 2010)
-Donald M. Broom, The Evolution of Morality and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
-Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds. Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective
(Eerdmans, 2004)
-Jens Clausen and Neil Levy, eds. Handbook of Neuroethics (Springer, 2008)
-James J. Giordano and Bert Gordijn, Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press,
2010)
-Judy Illes, Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2006)
-Judy Illes and Barbara J. Sahakian, Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Neil Levy, Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Stephen J. Pope, Human evolution and Christian ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Stephen G. Post, Lynn Underwood, Jeffrey Schloss, and William Hurlbut, Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy,
and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2002)
-Hilary Putnam, Susan Neim, and Jeffrey Schloss, eds. Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives?
(Transaction, 2014)

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13.2 Neuroscience and psychology of moral decisions
Web Resources
-Video: Warren Brown, “Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? The Brain, Mind and Non-reductive Physicalism”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/650381/650385.m4v
-Video: Bill Newsome, “Brain, Mind and Free-Will: Did my neurons make me do it?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1282617/1282621.m4v
-Video: Alan Torrance, “Developments in Neuroscience and Human Freedom: Some Theological and Philosophical
Perspectives”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1211445/1211449.m4v

Published Resources
-Roy F. Baumeister, Alfred R. Mele, Kathleen D. Vohs, eds. Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (Oxford
University Press, 2010)
-Jesse Couenhoven, Stricken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpability in Augustinian Theology (Oxford
University Press, 2013)
-Richard Holton, Willing, Wanting, Waiting (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Al Mele, Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-Al Mele, Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-Nancey Murphy, and W.S. Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? : Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral
Responsibility and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2007)
-Eddy Nahmias "Scientific Challenges to Free Will” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Timothy O'Connor and.
Constantine Sandis, eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
-Kevin Reimer, James A. Van Slyke; Gregory Peterson, Warren S. Brown, Michael L. Spezio Theology and the Science of Moral
Action: Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience (Routledge, 2012)
-Eliezer Sternberg, My Brain Made Me Do It: The Rise of Neuroscience and the Threat to Moral Responsibility (Prometheus
Books, 2010)
-David Shoemaker, Responsibility from the Margins (Oxford University Press, 2015)
-Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed. Moral Psychology: Free Will and Moral Responsibility (MIT Press, 2014)

13.3 Moral status of animals and nature


Web Resources
-Video: David Williams, “Animal Rights, Human Responsibilities”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1101870/1101874.m4v
-Video: Celia Deane-Drummond: “The Wisdom of the Liminal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22f61jVEmWQ
-Video: Oliver Putz: “What Good is God to Animals?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRCPINFMqk
-Video: Philip Focae, “Evangelicals and Animals”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zok-8veWrY
-Video: Mark Rowlands, “Can Animals Be Moral?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLDi5p3OE4

Published Resources
-David Clough, On Animals: Volume I: Systematic Theology (A&C Black, 2012)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming (Eeerdmans, 2014)
-Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough, eds. Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals (SCM Press, 2009)
-Michael J. Gilmour, Eden's Other Residents: The Bible and Animals (Wipf and Stock, 2014)
-Elizabeth A. Johnson, Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love (Bloomsbury, 2013)
-Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (University of Illinois Press, 1994)
-Andrew Linzey, Christianity and the Rights of Animals (Crossroad, 1991)
-Joshua Moritz, “Animals and the Image of God in the Bible and Beyond” Dialog: A Journal of Theology 48 (2009) 134–46
-Joshua Moritz, Human Uniqueness and the Image of God: Bridging Evolutionary Biology and Theological Anthropology
through Biblical Election (Pandora Press, forthcoming 2017)
-Stephen H. Webb, On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals (Oxford University Press, 1998)

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13.4 Environmental ethics
Web Resources
-Video: Dave Bookless, “The Environment - Ethical and Religious Issues”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1792163/1792168.m4v
-Video: Paula Clifford, “The Environment and Poverty”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1295730/1295734.m4v
-Video: Calvin DeWitt, “The Science and Ethics of Caring for the Environment”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1232076/1232080.m4v
-Video: Calvin DeWitt, “Biblical Teachings on Environmental Stewardship and Caring for Creation”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1215421/1215425.m4v
-Video: Donald Hay, “Environmental Unsustainability: How much should we discount the future?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1218931/1218935.m4v
-Video: Margot Hodson, “Human Responsibility for the Environment in a Fallen World”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1274586/1274590.m4v
-Audio: Margot Hodson, “Balancing Human and Environmental Concerns: A Contextual Theology for the 21st Century”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR248%20Hodson.mp3
-Video: Margot Hodson, “The environment: what hope do we have for life on a fragile planet?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1608925/1608930.m4v
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Environmental Justice and the Biblical Prophets”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1217074/1217078.m4v
-Video: Hilary Marlow, “Theologies of Creation: The Foundation for Environmental Concern”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/728749/728753.m4v
-Audio: Jonathan Moo, “New Testament Eschatology and the Environment”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR251%20Moo.mp3
-Audio: Jonathan Moo, “Environmental Apocalypse and Christian Hope”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR490%20Moo.mp3
-Video: John Weaver, “A Theological Approach to the Environment and Climate Change”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1071889/1071893.m4v
-Video: Bob White “Why care for the environment?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1260131/1260135.m4v
-Audio: Bob White “Science, Religion and the Environment: General Principles”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR246%20White.mp3

Published Resources
-Celia Deane-Drummond, The Ethics of Nature (Blackwell, 2004)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Genetic Engineering for a New Earth? Theology and Ethics of the New Biology (Grove, 2000)
-Celia Deane-Drummond & Bronislaw Szerszynski, eds: ReOrdering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics
(Lancaster University, 2003)
-Calvin B. DeWitt, Earthwise: A Guide to Hopeful Creation Care, 3rd edition (FathAlive Christian Resources 2011)
-Denis Edwards and Mark Worthing, eds. Biodiversity and Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Challenge (ATF Press, 2004)
-Denis Edwards, ed. Earth Revealing – Earth Healing: Ecology and Christian Theology (The Liturgical Press, 2001)
-Denis Edwards, Jesus the Wisdom of God: An Ecological Theology (Orbis Books, 1995)
-John Haught, The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (Wipf and Stock, 2004)
-Karl Peters, Dancing with the Sacred: Evolution, Ecology, and God (Trinity Press International, 2002)

13.5 Bioethics
Web Resources
-Video: John Bryant, “The Ethics of Stem Cell Research and Cloning”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR165%20John%20Bryant.mov
-Video: David Cook, “Bioethics in the Media and Public Policy”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1272734/1272738.m4v
-Video: Robin Gill, “The Ethics of Human Enhancement”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1209789/1209793.m4v
-Video: Richard Hain, “Infanticide on demand: why should the baby live? Medical ethics for children”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1659564/1659569.m4v
-Video: Gareth Jones, “Human Embryology and Bioethics”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1289842/1289846.m4v
-Video: Neil Messer, “The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement: A Theological Perspective”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1993690/1993695.m4v
-Audio: Donal O'Mathuna, “Medical Ethics and What it Means to be Human”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR333%20OMathuna.mp3
-Video: Joe Perry, “The Ethics of Food Production and GM Crops”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1220315/1220319.m4v
-Video: Philippa Taylor, “Bionic Persons: The Ethics of Enhancing Humans”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1219898/1219902.m4v

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Published Resources
-J. Bryant, L. Baggott la Velle & J. Searle, Introduction to Bioethics (Wiley, 2005)
-J. Bryant and J. Searle, Life in Our Hands (Inter-Varsity Press, 2004)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Genetics and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, eds. Brave New World? Theology, Ethics and the Human Genome (T & T Clark, 2003)
-Celia Deane-Drummond and Peter Scott, eds. Future Perfect? God, Medicine and Human Identity (T & T Clark, 2006)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for a New Science (Cassell, 1997)
-John H. Evans “Science, bioethics and religion” in Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion (Cambridge University
Press, 2010)
-John H. Evans, Contested Reproduction: Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
-John H. Evans, Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (University of
Chicago Press, 2002)
-Gareth Jones, Designers of the future: Who should make the decisions? (Monarch Books, 2005)
-Ted Peters, Karen Lebacqz and Gaymon Bennett, Sacred Cells?: Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research (Rowman
and Littlefield, 2008)
-Ted Peters, Science, Theology, Ethics, (Ashgate, 2003)
-Ted Peters, Ed: Genetics: Issues of Social Justice, (Pilgrim, 1998)
-Ted Peters, Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom, (Routledge, 2002)
-Bruce R. Reichenbach, and Anderson, V. Elving, eds. On Behalf of God: A Christian Ethic for Biology (Eerdmans, 1995)
-Agneta Sutton, Christian Bioethics: A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark, 2008)

13.6 The science of virtue: love, compassion, empathy, altruism, generosity, forgiveness,
gratitude
Web Resources
-Video: Stephen Post, “The Science of Happiness”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAB7xU0FtMs
-Video: Stephen Post, “On Why It's Good To Be Good”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Cx71W1ozA&list=PLmIwEDM1GNWySQdZXuo8ZaYBqkmzESWhD
-Video: Stephen Post, “Learn to Forgive Because Bitterness is Bad For Your Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZBc8M1epNY
-Video: Stephen Post, “Effects of Doing Good on Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_K8w9olqO4
-Video: Stephen Post “The Power of Giving, Compassion and Hope”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rlPrT1__Nk&list=PLmIwEDM1GNWySQdZXuo8ZaYBqkmzESWhD&index=4
-Video: Stephen Post “Doing Good is Good For You and Science Says It's So”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I27fgNRABE&index=5&list=PLmIwEDM1GNWySQdZXuo8ZaYBqkmzESWhD

Published Resources
-Robert A. Emmons and Joanna Hill, Words of Gratitude For Mind, Body, and Soul (Templeton Foundation Press, 2001)
-Beverley Fehr, Susan Sprecher, Lynn G. Underwood, The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications
(Wiley, 2009)
-Bill Kramer, Unexpected Grace Stories of Faith, Science, and Altruism (Templeton Foundation Press, 2007)
-N. Krause, “Gratitude toward God, Stress, and Health in Late Life,” Research on Aging, 28:2 (2006): 163-183
-N. Krause and C. G. Ellison, “Forgiveness by God, Forgiveness of Others, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life,” Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion 42:1 (Mar 1, 2003): 77-94
-Kristjan Kristjansson, Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
-Christian Miller, Character and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-Christian Miller, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013)
-Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, and William B. Hurlbut, eds., Altruism & Altruistic Love: Science,
Philosophy & Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2002)
-Stephen Post, Research On Altruism & Love (Templeton Foundation Press, 2003)
-Stephen Post, Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion, and Service (Templeton Foundation Press, 2003)
-Robert C. Roberts, Emotions in the Moral Life (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
-Nancy Snow, Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory (Routledge, 2010)
-Pitirim A. Sorokin. The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation (Templeton
Foundation Press, 2002)

13.7 Positive psychology (see section V.1.4)

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13.8 Character: nature vs. nurture
-Jens Clausen and Neil Levy, eds. Handbook of Neuroethics (Springer, 2008)
-Owen J. Flanagan, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, eds. Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology (MIT Press,
1991)
-Judy Illes and Barbara J. Sahakian, Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Evelyn Fox Keller, The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture (Duke University Press, 2010)-Christian Miller,
Character and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-Neil Levy, Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
-Christian Miller, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013)
-James J. Giordano and Bert Gordijn, Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics (Cambridge University Press,
2010)
-Jesse Prinz, Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind (Penguin UK, 2012)

13.9 Technology
Web Resources
-Video: Ted Peters, “Can We Enhance the Imago Dei? A Theological Assessment of Genetic Alteration, Nanotechnology and
Transhumanism”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR427%20Peters.mov
- Video: Brent Waters, “Flesh made data: the post human project in the light of incarnation”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1601381/1601386.m4v

Published Resources
-Ian G. Barbour, Ethics in an Age of Technology (HarperSanFrancisco, 1993)
-Ian G. Barbour, Technology, Environment, and Human Values (Praeger, 1980)
-Ronald Cole-Turner, Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement
(Georgetown University Press, 2011)
-Celia Deane-Drummond, Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for a New Science (Cassell, 1997)
-Philip Hefner, Technology and Human Becoming (Fortress Press, 2003)
-Philip Hefner, “The Animal that Aspires to Be an Angel: The Challenge of Transhumanism,” Dialog: Journal of Technology 48,
no. 2 (2009): 164-73
-Noreen Herzfeld, Technology and Religion Remaining Human in a Co-created World (Templeton Press, 2009)
-Derek F. Maher and Calvin Mercer, eds. Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
-Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen, eds. Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement (ABC-
CLIO, 2014)
-Nancey Murphy and Christopher Knight, eds. Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Religion
(Ashgate, 2010)
-Ted Peters, Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom (Routledge, 1997)
-Ted Peters, Science, Theology and Ethics (Ashgate, 2003)
-Holmes Rolston III, “Technology Versus Nature: What is Natural?” Ends and Means 2:2 (1998)
-Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Kenneth L Mossman, Building Better Humans?: Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism (Peter
Lang, 2012)
-Brent Waters, This Mortal Flesh: Incarnation and Bioethics (Brazos Press, 2009)
-Brent Waters, From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World (Ashgate, 2006)
-Brent Waters, Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman Back to Human (Ashgate, 2014)

13.10 Evolution of both competitive and cooperative tendencies; tensions therein


Web Resources
- Audio: Martin Nowak, “The Evolution of Cooperation”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR473%20Nowak.mp3
-Audio: Jeff Schloss, “The Evolution of Cooperation”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR346%20Schloss.mp3
-Audio: Jeff Schloss, “Virtue Its Own Reward? Evolution, Religion, and the Internalization of Cooperation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io7kXQQu8Wk

Published Resources
-Steven J. Brams, Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible (MIT Press, 2003)
-S Levin, ed. Games, Groups, and the Global Good (Springer, 2009)
-Martin Nowak, NL Komarova, “The evolution of altruism: from game theory to human language,” In C Harper, ed., Spiritual
Information (Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) 308-314
-Martin Nowak and Sarah Coakley, eds. Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation (Harvard University Press
2013)

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IV. CHURCH HISTORY
1. How did key periods understand and interact with “science”?
Web Resources
-Video: Peter Bowler, “Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity, and God”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvV0zblcn74
-Video: Jim Secord, “The Secret History of Victorian Evolution”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/567171/567175.m4v
-Video: David Livingstone, “Evolutionary Theory and Public Spectacle: The Fortunes of Darwinism in the Calvinist Cultures
of Victorian Calvinist Edinburgh and Belfast”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1227718/1227722.m4v
-Video: Denis Alexander, “The Historical Background to the Science-Religion Debate”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1293265/1293269.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 1”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1269560/1269564.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Historical Interactions Between Science and Religion - Part 2”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1269802/1269806.m4v
-Video: John Hedley Brooke, “Science vs Religion? The Origins of the Conflict Thesis”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1290145/1290149.m4v
-Video: John Hedley-Brooke - "Science & Secularisation: Where the Myths Lie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqQ5iu0A2E
-Video: John Brooke, “The Changing Relations Between Science and Theology”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/brooke1-frame.html
-Video: John Brooke, “Revisiting Darwin on Order and Design’
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/brooke2-frame.html
-Video: Allan Chapman, “Does the History of Science and Religion change depending on the Narrator? A Theist's View”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1248941/1248945.m4v
-Video: Edward B. Davis, “Why History Matters: Debunking the 'Warfare' View of Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1541467/1541472.m4v
-Video: James Hannam, “God's Philosophers: How the Mediaeval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/866809/866815.rm
-Video: James Hannam, “Science and Christianity: An historical sketch”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1073962/1073966.m4v
-Video: James Hannam, “Science and the Church in the Middle Ages”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBa7LN08mk
-Video: James Hannam, “Can science and religion get on? Some lessons from history”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1960032/1960037.m4v
-Video: Peter Harrison, “Religion and Science Throughout History”
http://www.testoffaith.com/resources/resources.aspx?resource=true&catid=13&id=171
-Video: Peter Harrison, "Science, Religion and the Enlightenment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp67uHdsPsQ
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “The Territories of Science and Religion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzN2t5mAzM
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “The Cosmos and the Religious Quest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCxktaQy7Dw
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Fallen Knowledge”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4MZnpSCYM
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Science and Progress”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qndljts-EwY
-Video: Peter Harrison (Gifford Lectures) “Science, Religion and Modernity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qC0D9N_ng
-Video: Peter Harrison, “The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Peter%20Harrison%202.mov
-Video: Peter Harrison, “The Religious Origins of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Peter%20Harrison%201.mov
-Audio: Peter Harrison, “The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Summer%20Course%202/FAR130%20Peter%20Harrison.mp3
-Audio: Peter Harrison, “The Doctrine of the Fall and the Epistemological Foundations of Modern Science”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR166%20Peter%20Harrison.mp3
Peter Harrison, “Religion and the Rise of Modern Science”
-Video: http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1555566/1555571.m4v
Articles
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Science-Versus-Christianity.html

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Published Resources
Introductory Level
- Peter Harrison, “History of the Science and Religion Dialogue” in A Science and Religion Primer (Baker Academic, 2009)
- John Hedley Brooke, “The Changing Relations Between Science and Religion,” in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology
and Biological Evolution eds. Hilary Regan, Mark Worthing, and Nancey Murphy (Australian Theological Forum, 2002)
- Joshua Moritz, “The Scientific Revolution” in The Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought, eds. Chad Meister and
James Beilby (Routledge, 2013)
- Alan Padgett, “Science and Religion in Western History: Models and Relationships,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, ed.
Melville Y. Stewart (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
-Ronald L. Numbers, ed. Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Intermediate Level
-Peter J. Bowler, Gorilla Trials and Monkey Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Harvard
University Press, 2007)
-Gary B. Ferngren, ed. Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
- Peter Harrison, “‘Science’ and ‘Religion’: Constructing the Boundaries,” in Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, & Stephen
Pumfrey, eds. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 23–49
-Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion, (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
-David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Advanced Level
-John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
-Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor, and Stephen Pumfrey, eds. Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
-Edward Grant, Science and Religion, 400 B. C. to A. D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Greenwood Press, 2004)
-Gary Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, & Darrel W. Amundsen, eds. The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition:
An Encyclopedia (Garland, 2000)
- Christopher Kaiser, Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science (Brill, 1997)
- David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science
(University of California Press, 1986)
- John Heilbron, The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- Richard Olson, Science and Religion, 1450–1900: From Copernicus to Darwin (Greenwood Press, 2004)
- Margaret J. Osler, Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern
Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
- Margaret J. Osler, Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the
Created World (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- Helge Kragh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology (Ashgate, 2008)

1.1 The Early church: The Cappadocians, Augustine, etc.


-John Doody, Adam Goldstein and Kim Paffenroth, eds. Augustine and Science, Series Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and
Innovation (Lexington Books, 2013)
-Christopher B. Kaiser, Creation & The History of Science (Marshall Pickering, 1991)
-David Lindberg, “Science and the Early Church,” in God & Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter Between Christianity
and Science, David C. Lindberg & Ronald L. Numbers, eds. (University of California Press, 1986)
-David Lindberg, “Early Christian Attitudes Toward Nature,” in Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, ed. Gary
Ferngren (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
-T. F. Torrance, Theology in Reconciliation: Essays towards Evangelical and Catholic Unity in East and West (Eerdmans, 1975)

1.2 The Medieval Period


-James Hannam, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (Regnery
Publishing, 2011)
-Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
(Cambridge University Press, 1996)
-Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
-Edward Grant, The Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages (CUA Press, 2010)
-Edward Grant, Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Greenwood, 2004)
-David Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science: the European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and
Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

1.3 Reformation Period


-Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
-Kathleen M. Crowther, Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

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1.4 Early Modern Period
-John Hedley Brooke and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, eds., Religious Values and the Rise of Science in Europe (IRCICA, 2005)
-John Hedley Brooke, eds., Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion (Oxford University Press, 2005)
-John Hedley Brooke & Geoffrey Cantor Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science & Religion (Oxford University
Press, 2000)
-R. Hooykaas, Religion and the Rise of Modern Science (Scottish Academic Press, 1972)
-David Knight and Matthew Eddy, eds. Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900 (Ashgate
Publishing, 2005)
-Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, and Perez Zagorin, eds., Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700 (Cambridge
University Press, 1992)
-David N. Livingstone, D.G. Hart, and Mark A. Noll, eds. Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford University
Press, 1999)

1.5 The Victorian period and the reception of Darwinian evolution


-Peter Bowler, “Christian Responses to Darwinism in the Late Nineteenth Century,” in Blackwell Companion to Science and
Christianity, ed. J. B. Stump and Alan Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)
-Peter Bowler, The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1983)
-John H. Brooke, “Christian Darwinians,” in Darwinism and Natural Theology: Evolving Perspectives, eds. Andrew Robinson
(Cambridge, Scholars Press 2012) 47-67
-John H. Brooke, “Laws impressed on matter by the Creator”? The Origin and the Question of Religion’, in The Cambridge
Companion to the “Origin of Species” eds. Michael Ruse and Robert Richards (Cambridge University Press, 2009) 256-74
-John C. Green, , The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, (Iowa State University Press, 1959)
-Karl W. Giberson and Donald A., Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story (Roman & Littlefield, 2002)
-A. Hallam, A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (Oxford University Press, 1973)
-Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth & Jonathan R. Topham, Culture and
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media eds. (Ashgate, 2004)
-Edward, Humes, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul (HarperCollins, 2007)
-Christopher Kaiser, Creation and the History of Science (Eerdmans, 1991)
-Edward J. Larson, Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands (Basic Books, 2001)
-Bernard Lightman, Victorian Science in Context (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
-Bernard Lightman, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain: The 'Darwinians' and Their Critics (Ashgate/Variorum,
2009)
-David Livingstone, Darwin’s Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought
(Eerdmans, 1987)
-David Livingstone, Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins (Johns Hopkins Press, 2008)
-James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies : A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great
Britain and America, 1870-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1979)
-James R. Moore, The Darwin Legend (Baker Books, 1994)
-Ronald L. Numbers, Darwin Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998)
-Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism (University of California Press, 2006)

1.6 The 20th century


-Michael J. Lacey, Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
-Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion,
(Harvard University Press, 1997)
-George Marsden, Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Eerdmans Publishing, 1991)
-Matthew Stanley, Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A.S. Eddington (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
-Nicolaas A. Rupke, editor Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science & Religion (Peter Lang, 2007)

2 Interpretations of pivotal figures and events shaping religion and science


2.1 Key Figures in the History of Science and Religion
Web Resources
-Video: Edward B. Davis, “Science and Religion in the Life of Robert Boyle”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1219664/1219668.m4v
-Video: Owen Gingerich, “Truth in Science: Proof and Persuasion from Copernicus to the Galileo Affair”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1550689/1550694.m4v
-Video: David Lindberg, “The Florentine Heretic? Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1292527/1292531.m4v
-Video: Ernan McMullin, “Was Galileo Guilty?”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1231809/1231813.m4v
-Video: Michael Roberts, “From Darwin to Scopes”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/Michael%20Roberts.mov
-Video: John van Wyhe, “Darwin's Loss of Faith”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1259225/1259229.m4v

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-Video: George Coyne, “Lemaitre: Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1134308/1134313.m4v
-Video: Rodney Holder, ‘Lemaitre and Hoyle: Contrasting Characters in Science and Religion”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1132639/1132644.m4v
-Video: Helge Kragh, “Lemaitre, the Expanding Universe and the Primeval Atom”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1132539/1132544.m4v
-Audio: Dominique Lambert, “Lemaitre: The Priest who Invented the Big Bang”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR386%20Lambert.mp3

Published Resources
Robert Boyle
-John Hedley Brooke, “The Legacy of Robert Boyle: Then and Now,” in Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century,
Russell Manning and Michael Byrne, eds. (SCM Press 2013): 114-128
-Edward B. Davis, “Robert Boyle’s Religious Life, Attitudes, and Vocation” Science & Christian Belief 19: 2 (2007): 117-38
-R. Hooykaas, Robert Boyle: a study in science and Christian belief (University Press of America, 1997)
-Lawrence M. Principe, The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest (Princeton University Press, 1998)
-William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian
Chymistry (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
-Jan W. Wojcik, Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
-Jan W. Wojcik, "The Theological Context of Boyle's Things above Reason," in Michael Hunter, ed., Robert Boyle Reconsidered
(Cambridge University Press, 1994)
-Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science New Haven and London (Yale University Press, 2009)
-Michael Hunter, ed., Robert Boyle Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
William Buckland
- Jan M. Ivo Klave, Geology and Religious Sentiment: The Effect of Geological Discoveries on English Society and Literature
Between 1829 and 1859 (Brill, 1997)
Nicolaus Copernicus
-Maurice Finocchiaro, Defending Copernicus and Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs (Springer, 2009)
-Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (Penguin, 2005)
-Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (American Institute of Physics, 1993)
-Owen Gingerich, Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Charles Darwin
-John Hedley Brooke, “Darwin's Religious Journey,” Ethical Record: Proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society 115:9
(2010) 3-13
-John Hedley Brooke, ‘Darwin and Religion: Correcting the Caricatures’, Science and Education 19, 4 (2010): 391-405
-John Hedley Brooke, "Ready to Aid One Another: Darwin on Nature, God, and Cooperation,” in Evolution, Games, and God,
eds. Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley (Harvard University Press 2013) 37-59
-John Hedley Brooke, ‘Darwin and Victorian Christianity’, in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin eds. Gregory Radick and
Jonathan Hodge (Cambridge University Press, 2003)192-213
- Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human
Evolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
-Nick Spencer, Darwin and God (SPCK, 2009)
-Neal C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation, (University of Chicago Press, 1979)
-John C. Green, Darwin and the Modern World View, (Louisiana State University Press, 1961)
Theodosius Dobzhansky
-Mark Adams, ed. The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky: Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America (Princeton
University Press, 2014)
-J. M. Van der Meer, “Theodosius Dobzhansky: Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Religion.” In: Nicolaas
Rupke, ed., Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion (Peter Lang, 2007) 79-101
Albert Einstein
-John Hedley Brooke, “’If I were God’: Einstein and Religion,” Zygon 41 (2006) 941-54
-Steven Gimbel, Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion (JHU Press, 2012)
-Max Jammers, Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Michael Faraday
-Frank James, Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010)
-G. N. Cantor, Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist: a study of science and religion in the nineteenth century
(Macmillan, 1991)
-Colin A. Russell, Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith (Oxford University Press, 2000)

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Galileo Galilei
- Richard J. Blackwell, Behind the scenes at Galileo’s trial: including the first English translation of Melchior Inchofer’s
Tractatus syllepticus (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
- Richard J. Blackwell, "Galileo Galilei", in Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, Gary Ferngren, ed. (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2002)
- Richard J. Blackwell, Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible (University of Notre Dame Press, 1991)
- George Coyne, SJ, “Science. Meets Biblical Exegesis in the Galileo Affair” Zygon 48:1 (March 2013)
- G.V. Coyne, M. Heller, and J. Zycinski, eds. The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science (Specola Vaticana, 1985)
- Maurice Finocchiaro, The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (University of California Press, 1989)
- Maurice Finocchiaro, Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992 (University of California Press, 2005)
- Owen Gingrich, “Truth in Science: Proof, Persuasion, and the Galileo Affair,” S & CB 16:1 (April 2004)
- Christopher M Graney, Setting aside all authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the science against Copernicus in the age of
Galileo (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015)
- Ernan McMullin, “Galileo's Theological Venture” Zygon 48:1 (March 2013)
- Ernan McMullin, ed. The Church and Galileo (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
- W. R. Shea and M. Artigas, Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Uneasy Genius (Oxford University Press, 2003)
- D. Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Walker, 1999)
Johannes Kepler
-Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (American Institute of Physics, 1993)
-Kenneth J. Howell, God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science (University
of Notre Dame Press, 2002)
-Jürgen Hübner, “Kepler’s Praise of the Creator,” Vistas in Astronomy 18: 1 (1975) 369–382
-Jürgen Hübner, “Natural Science as Praise of the Creator,” Vistas in Astronomy 18: 1 (1975) 383-385
-Christopher B. Kaiser, “Science-Fostering Belief – Then and Now,” Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith 59:3 (Sept.
2007) 171-181
Georges Lemaître
-Rodney D. Holder and Simon Mitton, eds. Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy (Springer, 2012)
-John Farrell, The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Thunder’s Mouth Press,
2006)
James Maxwell
- Thomas Torrance, “Christian Faith and Physical Science in the Thought of James Clerk Maxwell,” in Transformation and
Convergence in the Frame of Knowledge: Explorations in the Interrelations of Scientific and Theological Enterprise (Wipf
and Stock Publishers, 1998)
-Matthew Stanley, Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science (University of Chicago
Press, 2014)
Gregor Mendel
-Edward Edelson, Gregor Mendel: And the Roots of Genetics (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Isaac Newton
-J. Fauvel, R. Flood, M. Shortland, and R. Wilson, eds., Let Newton Be! (Oxford University Press, 1988)
-J. E. Force, and S. Hutton, Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies (Kluwer, 2004)
Blaisé Pascal
-W. R. Shea, Designing Experiments & Games of Chance (Science History Publications, 2003)
Michael Polanyi
-Lydia Jaeger, Einstein, Polanyi and the Laws of Nature (Templeton 2010)
-Theme: “Science and Religion in the Thought of Michael Polanyi,” Zygon 17:1 (1982)
Niels Stensen
-Karen Ascani, Hans Kermit, Gunver Skytte, eds. Niccolo Stenone (1638-1686) Anatomista, Geologo, Vescovo (L'erma di
Bretschneider, 2002)
-Hans Kermit, Niels Stensen, 1638-1686: The Scientist who was Beatified (Gracewing Publishing, 2003)
-Frank Sobiech, “Science, Ethos, and Transcendence in the Anatomy of Nicolaus Steno” (The National Catholic Bioethics
Center, 2015) 107-126
William Whewell
-John Hedley Brooke, “Indications of a Creator: Whewell as apologist and priest,” in M. Fisch and S. Schaffer, eds., William
Whewell: A Composite Portrait (Clarendon Press, 1991) 149-73
-Menachem Fisch, William Whewell Philosopher of Science (Clarendon Press, 1991)

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3 Reception of science in different Christian traditions
Web Resources
-Audio: David Livingstone, “Darwin's Forgotten Defenders”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR334%20Livingstone.mp3
-Video: David Livingstone, “Evolutionary Theory and Public Spectacle: The Fortunes of Darwinism in the Calvinist Cultures
of Victorian Calvinist Edinburgh and Belfast”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1227718/1227722.m4v
-Video: Ilia Delio, “Evolution - a Christian Perspective (Teilhard de Chardin)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2C1SO9lz98

Published Resources

Catholic
-Mariano Artigas, Thomas Glick, and Rafael A. Martinez. Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican Confronts Evolution 1877–1902
(Johns Hopkins Press, 2006)
-James Birx, Interpreting Evolution: Darwin and Teilhard de Chardin (Prometheus Books, 1991)
-Louis Caruana, ed. Darwin and Catholicism: the Past and Present Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter (T & T Clark, 2009)
-Peter Hess and Paul L. Allen, Catholicism and Science (Greenwood Press, 2008)
-Don O'Leary, Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History (Continuum, 2006)
-Robert Kugelmann, Psychology and Catholicism: Contested Boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
-David L Schindler and David Bohm, Beyond Mechanism: the Universe in Recent Physics and Catholic Thought (University
Press of America, 1986)
-Phillip Thompson, Between Science and Religion: The Engagement of Catholic Intellectuals with Science and Technology in the
Twentieth Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009)
-Benjamin Wiker, The Catholic Church & Science: Answering the Questions, Exposing the Myths (TAN Books, 2011)

Protestant
-Leslie A. Muray, Liberal Protestantism and Science (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007)
-Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
-William John Hausmann, Science and the Bible in Lutheran Theology: From Luther to the Missouri Synod (University Press of
America, 1978)
-Thomas J. Oord, Divine Grace and Emerging Creation: Wesleyan Forays in Science and Theology of Creation (Pickwick, 2009)
-Nancey Murphy, Reconciling Theology and Science: a Radical Reformation Perspective (Pandora Press, 1997)

Evangelical
-Edward B. Davis, “Science Falsely So Called: Fundamentalism and Science” in Blackwell Companion to Science and
Christianity, ed. J. B. Stump and Alan Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)
-David N. Livingstone, Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought
(Eerdmans, 1987)
-David N. Livingstone, D.G Hart, and Mark A. Noll, eds. Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford University
Press, 1999)
-Michael Roberts, Evangelicals and Science (Greenwood Press, 2008)
-Amos Yong, “God and the Evangelical Laboratory: Recent Conservative Protestant Thinking about Theology and Science,”
Theology & Science 5:2 (2007): 203-21
-Amos Yong, “Science and Religion: Introducing the Issues, Entering the Debates – A Review Essay,” Christian Scholar’s
Review 40:2 (2011): 189-203

Eastern Orthodox
-Daniel Buxhoeveden and Gayle Woloschak, Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church (Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
-Christopher C. Knight, “Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church: Historical and Current Perspectives,” Science & Christian
Belief 25:1 (April 2013)
-Alexei Nesteruk, Light from the East Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Fortress, 2003)
-Alexei Nesteruk, The Universe as Communion: Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science (T & T Clarke, 2008)
-Alexei Nesteruk, The Sense of the Universe: Philosophical Explication of Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology
(Augsburg Fortress, 2015)
-Alexei Nesteruk, “Design in the Universe and the Logos of Creation: Patristic Synthesis and Modern Cosmology,” in Design
and Disorder: Perspectives from Science and Theology, Niels Henrik Gregersen and Ulf Görman, eds. ( T & T Clark, 2002)
171-202
-Basarab Nicolescu & Magda Stavinschi, eds, Science and Orthodoxy, a necessary dialogue (Curtea Veche, 2006)
-Efthymios Nicolaidis, Science and Eastern Orthodoxy: From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization (JHU Press, 2011)
-Lazar Puhalo, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Series of Lectures on Orthodoxy and Modern Physics. 2nd ed. (Synaxis Press,
2005)

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Pentecostal
Theme Issue: “Pentecostalism, Science, and Creation: New Voices in the Theology-Science Conversation,” a collection of six
articles (Yong, Smith, Work, Bradnick, Studebaker) in Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 43:4 (2008): 875-989
Theme Issue: “Pentecostal Theology and Science,” Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 3:1, Amos Yong,
Brandon Kertson, Thomas J. Oord, Craig A. Boyd, Joshua M. Moritz, and F. LeRon Shults (2012): 89-129
[https://journal.twu.ca/index.php/CJPC/issue/view/7].
-James K. A. Smith and Amos Yong, eds. Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement With the Sciences (Indiana
University Press, 2010)
-Amos Yong, ed., The Spirit Renews the Face of the Earth: Pentecostal Forays in Science and Theology of Creation (Pickwick
Publications, 2009)
-Amos Yong, “Reading Scripture and Nature: Pentecostal Hermeneutics and Their Implications for the Contemporary
Evangelical Theology and Science Conversation,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 53:1 (2011): 1-13
-Amos Yong, “Pentecostalism and Science: Challenges and Opportunities,” in David R. Bundrick and Steve Badger, eds.,
Proceedings of the Inaugural Faith and Science Conference (Gospel Publishing House, 2012) 133-47
-Amos Yong, “The Spirit at Work in the World: A Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspective on the Divine Action
Project,” Theology & Science 7:2 (2009): 123-40

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4 Atheism and Science
Web Resources
Allan Chapman, “Science, Secularism and Enlightenment: The historical origins of a modern mythology”
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1160434/1160439.m4v
Video: Christopher Isham, “How do you explain the rise of scientific atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2456
Video: Alister McGrath, “How do you explain the rise of scientific atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2674
Video: Leonard Mlodinow, “How do you explain the rise of scientific atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2743
Video: John Polkinghorne, “How do you understand the New Atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3806
Video: Lawrence Principe: “Scientism and the Religion of Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVARio4pAk
Video: Keith Ward, “How do you understand the New Atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3198
Video: Keith Ward, “God, Science and the New Atheism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyYBBpbzgc0
Video: Michael Shermer, “How do you understand the New Atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2993
Video: Alister McGrath, “How do you understand the New Atheism?”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/4041
Video: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, “The Science and Religion Dialogue in the Post-Secular Moment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5HI0GD1qw
Video: Cyril Hovorun, “The Science and Religion Dialogue in the Post-Atheist Setting”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWsSze3cgI

Published Resources

Introductory Level
-John Hedley Brooke, “Natural law in the Natural Sciences: the Origins of Modern Atheism?” Science and Christian Belief 4:2
(October 1992) 83-103
-John Hedley Brooke, ‘Science and Secularization’, in The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion ed. Peter Harrison
(Cambridge University Press, 2010) 103-23
-David H. Glass, Atheism’s New Clothes: Exploring and exposing the claims of the New Atheists (IVP/Apollos, 2012)
-Alister E McGrath and Joanna McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion (InterVarsity Press, 2007)
-David G. Myers, A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists: Musings on Why God is Good and Faith Isn't Evil (Jossey-
Bass/Wiley 2008)
-Michael Ruse, “Darwinism and Atheism: A Marriage Made in Heaven?” in The Blackwell Companion to Science and
Christianity, eds. James Stump and Alan Padgett (Blackwell, 2012)

Intermediate Level
-John Cornwell, Darwin’s Angel – An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion (Profile Books, 2007)
-Thomas Dixon, Scientific Atheism as a Faith Tradition', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences, 33 (2002) 337-59
-John F. Haught God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens (Westminster John Knox Press,
2008)
-David Martin, “Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation?” Science & Christian Belief 19:1 (April 2007)
-Alister E. McGrath, Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
-Alister E. McGrath, The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (Doubleday, 2004)
-Ian S. Markham, Against Atheism. Why Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris Are Fundamentally Wrong (Wiley, 2010)
-Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (Lion, 2008)
-Peter S. Williams, I Wish I Could Believe in Meaning and Purpose: A Response to Nihilism (Damaris Publishing, 2004)

Advanced Level
-David Bartholomew, Uncertain Belief: Is it rational to be a Christian? (Oxford University Press, 2000)
-Michael J. Buckley, Denying and Disclosing God: The Ambiguous Progress of Modern Atheism (Yale University Press, 2004)
-David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (Yale University Press, 2009)
-Nancey Murphy, “Robert John Russell versus the New Atheists,” Zygon 45:1 (March 2010): 193-212
-Christian Smith, The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life
(University of California Press, 2003)

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V. PRACTICAL THEOLOGY
1. Marriage and Family Therapy/Pastoral Care and Counseling
1.1 Social psychology, Social neuroscience, and Social evolution
Web Resources
-Video: Michael L. Spezio, “Neuroscience and Pastoral Ministry: Lessons from the Study of Emotion, Contemplative Practice,
and Moral Action”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOOV-TDtuc

Published Resources
- Tania Singer and Claus Lamm. “The Social Neuroscience of Empathy,” Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1156
(2009): 81–96.
- Michael L. Spezio, “Narrative in Holistic Healing: Empathy, Sympathy, & Simulation Theory,” In Spiritual Transformation
and Healing, eds. Joan D. Koss and Philip Hefner (Altamira, 2006)
-Michael L. Spezio, “Social Neuroscience and Theistic Evolution: Intersubjectivity, Love, and the Social Sphere” Zygon 48
(2013) 428

1.2 Relational capacity


Published Resources
-W. Whitney and P. E. King, “Emerging adults and religious participation,” In C N. Barry and M. M. Abo-Zena, eds. Emerging
Adults’ Religiousness and Spirituality: Meaning-Making in an Age of Transition (Oxford University Press, 2014)

1.3 Spirituality and health


Web Resources
-Video: Ann Harrington, “Spirituality and Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQ7ecW8u0Y
-Video: Robert Weathers, “Research on Spirituality and Recovery From Addiction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tis6xVr17VAb
-Video: Mike Rabow, “Spirituality and Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ucsxP0vUk
-Video: Christopher G. Ellison, “Relationship Between Religion and Mental Health”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVMDbKGR2gI

Published Resources
-Charles H. Hackney and Glenn S. Sanders, “Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta–Analysis of Recent Studies” Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, 421(2003) 43–55
-Harold Koenig, Faith and Mental Health Religious Resources for Healing (Templeton Press, 2005)
-Harold Koenig, Is Religion Good for Your Health?: The Effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health (Routledge, 2013)
-Harold Koenig, ed. Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson (Routledge, 2013)
-Harold Koenig and Gregg Lewis, The Healing Connection: The Story of a Physician’s Search for the Link between Faith and
Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2004)
-Harold Koenig, Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What (Templeton Foundation Press, 2007)
-Harold Koenig, Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurement, Statistics, and Resources (Templeton Foundation
Press, 2012)
-Dana King and Harold Koenig, Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine: Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner (Routledge,
2013)
-Harold Koenig, Dana King, Verna B. Carson, Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford University Press, 2012)
-Judy Harrison and Philip Burnard, Spirituality and Nursing Practice (Avebury, 1993)
-Jeff Levin and Larry Dossey, God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
-Jeff Levin and Keith G. Meador, eds., Healing to All Their Flesh: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Spirituality, Theology, and
Health (Templeton Foundation Press, 2013)

1.4 Value of community


Published Resources
-R. F. Baumeister and Mark R. Leary, “The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human
Motivation,” Psychological Bulletin, 117:3 (1995) 497-529
-H. R. Ebaugh, ed. The Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions (Springer, 2005)

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1.5 Spirituality and family
Web Resources
Video: Vern Bengtson, “Millennials, Parents, and Grandparents: Family Transmission of Religion (and Non-Religion)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sLySizte_s
Video: Mary Eberstadt: “Does the Family Matter? The Crisis of Faith in Church and Culture”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpY9sBNBa9w

Published Resources
-Justin Barrett and P.E. King, Mind the Gap: Evolutionary psychology perspectives on thriving (Inter Varsity Press, in progress)
-Vern Bengtson, Norella M. Putney, and Susan Harris, Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down Across Generations
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
-Vern Bengtson, Sourcebook of family theory & research (Sage, 2005)
-P. L. Benson, All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents,
(Jossey-Bass, 1997)
-D. R. Carr, P.E. King, and A.M. Meier, “Purpose and spirituality: Exploring the role of fidelity in diverse adolescents,” Journal
of Youth Development: Bridging Research to Practice (2014) 5–15
-Ronald Cole-Turner and Brent Waters, Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life (Pilgrim Press, 1996)
-Kenda Creasy Dean, Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church (Oxford University
Press, 2010)
-A. Desrosiers, B. S. Kelley, and L. Miller, “Parent and peer relationships and relational spirituality in adolescents and young
adults,” Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 3:1 (2011) 39–54
-E. M. Dowling, S. Gestsdottir, P. M. Anderson, A. von Eye, J. Almerigi, and R.M. Lerner, “Structural relations among
spirituality, religiosity, and thriving in adolescence,” Applied Developmental Science, 8:1 (2004) 7–16
-C. B. Fisher and R. M. Lerner, eds., Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science (Sage Publications, 2005)
-J. W. Fowler, Stages of Faith (Harper and Row, 1981)
-P. S. Fry, “The development of personal meaning and wisdom in adolescence: a reexamination of moderating and
consolidating factors and influences,” in The Human Quest for Meaning: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical
Applications, P. T. P. Wong and P. S. Fry, eds. (Erlbaum, 1998) 91–110
-Patricia King, and C. Boyatzis, “Religious and spiritual development in childhood and adolescence,” in M. E. Lamb and C. G.
Coll, eds., Social and Emotional Issues (Vol. 3) of the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science (7th ed.)
(Wiley, 2015)
-Richard Robert Osmer and Kenda Creasy Dean, Youth, Religion and Globalization: New Research in Practical Theology (Lit
Verlag, 2007)
-Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton, A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of Americas
Adolescents (Oxford University Press, 2010)
-Ted Peters, For the Love of Children: Genetic Technology and the Future of the Family (Westminster/ John Knox Press, 1996)
- Mark D. Regnerus, Christian Smith, and B. Smith, “Social context in the development of adolescent religiosity,” Applied
Developmental Science, 8:1 (2004) 27–38
-Mark D. Regnerus, Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford University Press, 2009)
-E. C. Roehlkepartain, P. E. King, L. Wagener, and P. L. Benson, eds., The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and
Adolescence (Sage, 2006)
-Christian Smith, To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil (University of
Chicago Press, 2015)
-Christian Smith, Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog, Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of
Emerging Adulthood (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Christian Smith and Patricia Snell, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults (Oxford
University Press, 2009)
-Christian Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
-Christian Smith, Kyle Longest, Jonathan Hill, and Kari Christoffersen, Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of,
and Gone from the Church (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-D. F. Walker and W. L. Hathaway, eds., Spiritual interventions in child and adolescent psychotherapy (American Psychological
Association, 2013)
-A. Warren, R. M. Lerner, and E. Phelps, eds., Thriving and spirituality among youth: Research perspectives and future
possibilities (Wiley, 2011)
-Brent Waters, The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2007)

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1.6 Chaplaincy studies
Web Resources
-Video: George Handzo, “Cultural and Spiritual Assessments in Healthcare Quality, HealthCare Chaplaincy Network”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IL8m6-6ruk
Published Resources
-Wendy Cadge, Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Christopher Swift, Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century (Ashgate, 2014)
-Wendy Cadge, Emily Sigalow “Negotiating Religious Differences: The Strategies of Interfaith Chaplains in Healthcare”
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, v52 n1 (March 2013): 146-158
-Mark Cobb, Christina Puchalski, Bruce Rumbold, Eds., Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare (Oxford University Press,
2014)
-V. B. Carson, Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice (WB Saunders, 1989)

2 Spiritual Formation
2.1 Spiritual Practices: Neuroscience of meditative states; SSRC Prayer project; Contemplative
science; Plasticity and control of the mind
Published Resources
-Etzel Cardena, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner, eds. Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific
Evidence (American Psychological Association, 2014)
-Elizabeth Dowling, & W. George Scarlet, eds. Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development (Sage, 2006)
-Elizabeth Dowling, & W. George Scarlet, eds. Encyclopedia of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence (Sage
2005)
-Edward Evans-Pritchard, Nuer Religion (Oxford University Press, 1956)
-Godfrey Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka (Oxford University Press, 1961)
-Tanya Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God (Vintage Books,
2012)
-Tanya Luhrmann, Howard Nusbaum and Ronald Thisted, “'Lord, Teach Us to Pray': Prayer Practice Affects Cognitive
Processing.” Journal of Culture and Cognition 13:159-177
-Antoine Lutz, H. Slagter, N. Rawling, et al. “Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral
Evidence” The Journal of Neuroscience 29: 13418–13427
-Karl F. MacDorman, “Subjective Ratings of Robot Video Clips for Human Likeness, Subjective Ratings of Robot Video Clips
for Human Likeness, Familiarity, and Eeriness: An Exploration of the Uncanny Valley” ICCS/CogSci (2006)
-Glenn Mosley and Joanna Hill, The Power of Prayer around the World (Templeton Foundation Press, 1998)
-Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience (Fortress Press, 1999)
-Richard Noll, “Mental Imagery Cultivation as a Cultural Phenomenon: The Role of Vision in Shamanism” Current
Anthropology. 26:4 (1985):443-462
-Stefan Schmidt and Harald Walach, Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Springer
Science, 2013)
-Kevin S. Seybold, Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion (Ashgate, 2013)
-Bernard Spilka and Kevin L. Ladd, The Psychology of Prayer: A Scientific Approach (Guilford Press, 2012)
-Evan Thompson, Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia
University Press, 2014)
-Michael A. West, The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2016)
-David A. Wilkinson, When I pray what does God do? (Monarch, 2015)

2.2 Ritual: Cultural anthropology and Sociology of religion


Published Resources
-David Berliner and Ramon Sarro, Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches (Berghahn Books, 2013)
-Janice Boddy, and Michael Lambek, A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
-Michael Bull, Jon P. Mitchell, Ritual, Performance and the Senses (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)
-Jack David Eller, Introducing Anthropology of Religion: Culture to the Ultimate (Routledge, 2014)
-Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley, Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University
Press, 1990)
-David N. Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Johns
Hopkins, 2014)
-Pierre Liénard and Pascal Boyer, “Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior,” American
Anthropologist 108:4 (2006): 814–27
-Robert McCauley and Thomas Lawson, Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (Oxford
University Press, 2002)
-Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
-William Austin Stahl, Webs of Reality: Social Perspectives on Science and Religion (Rutgers University Press, 2002)

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-Harvey Whitehouse and Robert McCauley, Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations (Rowman Altamira,
2005)
-Harvey Whitehouse and Luther H. Martin, eds. Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition (Rowman
Altamira, 2004)
-Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw, Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Rowman
Altamira, 2004)
-Harvey Whitehouse and James Laidlaw, Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (Carolina Academic Press, 2007)
-Wesley J. Wildman, Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life
(Ashgate, 2009)

2.3 Religious Experience: Neuroscience studies; Spiritual transformation or conversion studies


Published Resources
-John Hedley Brooke, “Can Scientific Discovery be a Religious Experience?” in The Edge of Reason?: Science and Religion in
Modern Society, Alex Bentley ed. (Continuum, 2008) 155-64
- Warren S. Brown, Nancey C. Murphy, H. Newton Malony, eds. Whatever Happened to the Soul?: Scientific and Theological
Portraits of Human Nature (Fortress Press, 1998)
-Warren S. Brown and Brad D. Strawn, The Physical Nature of Christian Life: Neuroscience, Psychology, and the Church
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
-Travis Dumsday, “Divine Hiddenness and Special Revelation,” Religious Studies 51:2 (2015):241-259
-Travis Dumsday, “Counter-Cultural Religious Experiences,” Religious Studies 47:3 (2011):317-330
-John Hick, The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience, and the Transcendent (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006)
-Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner, Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific,
and Clinical Perspectives (Rowman Altamira, 2006)
-Andrew B. Newberg, Principles of Neurotheology (Ashgate, 2010)
-Malcolm Jeeves and Warren Brown, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion (Templeton Press 2009)
-Timothy Jennings, The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life (Inver Varsity Press, 2013)
-Patrick McNamara, Where God and Science Meet: The Neurology of Religious Experience (Greenwood, 2006)
-Patrick McNamara, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
-Paul Moser, The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
-L. A. Paul, Transformative Experience (Oxford University Press, 2014)
-Patrick Richmond, “Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience and Their Implications for Belief,” Science & Christian
Belief 22:1 (April 2010)
-Eleonore Stump, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford University Press, 2010)
-Wesley J. Wildman, Religious and Spiritual Experiences (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
-Keith Yandell, The Epistemology of Religious Experience (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

2.4 Positive Psychology & Character/Virtue Development


Web Resources
Video: Martin Seligman, “Positive Psychology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faT8jw17RHE
Video: Corey Keyes, “Living the Good Life: Positive Psychology and Flourishing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhPb4OWM3B0
Positive Psychology (General)
-Kelly Bulkeley, ed. Soul, Psyche, and Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-mind Science (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005)
-M. Csikszentmihalyi, ed. A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2006)
-C. Keyes and J. Haidt, eds. Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-lived (American Psychological Association,
2003)
- P.E. King and W. Whitney, “What’s the ‘positive’ in positive psychology: Teleological considerations based on creation and
imago doctrines,” Journal of Psychology and Theology 43 (1), 47 – 59 (2015)
- Alex Linley, Susan Harrington, and Nicola Garcea, eds. Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (Oxford University
Press, 2010)
-Shane Lopez, The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
-Thomas Plante, Religion, Spirituality, and Positive Psychology: Understanding the Psychological Fruits of Faith (ABC-CLIO,
2012)
-C. R. Snyder and Shane J. Lopez, eds., Handbook of Positive Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2002)
-C. R. Snyder, Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, eds. Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of
Human Strengths (SAGE, 2011)
-Valerie Tiberius, “Well Being: Psychological Research for Philosophers,” Philosophy Compass 1 (2006): 493– 505
-E. L. Worthington, J. N. Hook, D. E. Davis, and M. A. McDaniel, “Religion and spirituality,” Journal of Clinical Psychology 67
(2011) 204–214,
-Daniel Haybron, The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being (Oxford University Press, 2008)
-Daniel Haybron, Happiness: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013)

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Forgiveness
-Everett L. Worthington Jr. The Power of Forgiving (Templeton, 2005)
-E. K. P. Hui and D. K. Y. Ho, “Forgiveness in the context of developmental guidance: implementation and evaluation,” British
Journal of Guidance and Counselling 32: 4 (2004) 477–492
-Raymond G. Helmick, Rodney Lawrence Petersen, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, & Conflict
Transformation (Templeton, 2001)
-Everett Worthington Jr. ed. Dimensions of Forgiveness Psychological Research & Theological Perspectives (Templeton, 1998)

Generosity
-Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Elanah Dalyah Naftali, and Laura Musegades, Growing Up Generous: Engaging Youth in Giving and
Serving, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
-Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson, The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose (Oxford, 2014)

Gratitude
-R.A. Emmons and P. McNamara, “Sacred emotions and affective neuroscience: Gratitude, costly-signaling, and the brain,” in
Where God and Man Meet: How the Brain and Evolutionary Sciences are Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Religion and
Spirituality, P. McNamara, ed. (Praeger 2006)

Humility
-Robert L. Herrmann, ed. God, Science, and Humility Ten Scientists Consider Humility Theology (Templeton, 1998)
-Stephen Post, Lynn Underwood, Jeffrey Schloss, and William Hurlbut, Altruism & Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy &
Religion in Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Love
-Robin Dunbar, The Science of Love (John Wiley, 2012)
-Jean L. Kristeller and Thomas Johnson, “Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on
Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality” Zygon 40:2 (June 2005) 391–408
-Matthew T. Lee and Amos Yong, Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities (Lexington Books, 2012)
-Thomas Jay Oord, Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement (Brazos Press, 2010)
-Thomas Jay Oord, Science of Love: The Wisdom of Well-Being (Templeton, 2004)
-Stephen G. Post, Godly Love: A Rose Planted in the Desert of Our Hearts (Templeton, 2008)

3 Christian Education/Youth Ministry

3.1 Teaching theology and science to youth


Web Resources
-Video: Darrel Falk, “Human Evolution (for Church Leaders)”
http://media.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/WebMedia/FAR238%20Falk.mov
-Articles: Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work With The Church
http://ministrytheorem.calvinseminary.edu/essays/wiwmpk/

Published Resources
-Jeff Astley, David Brown, Ann Loades, eds. Problems in theology 4: Science and Religion (T & T Clark, 2004)
-Jean Dorricott SCM Studyguide: Science and Religion (SCM, 2005)
-Leslie Jones and Michael Reiss, eds. Teaching About Scientific Origins – Taking Account of Creationism, Volume 277,
Counterpoints series – Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education (Peter Lang, 2008)
-P. E. King and J. L. Furrow, “Religion as a resource for positive youth development: Religion, social capital, and moral
outcomes,” Developmental Psychology 40:5 (2004) 703 - 713
-Millwod Education Trust, Science and Religion in Schools Project (Trafford, 2006)
-K. Powell, P. E. King, and C. Clark, “The needs of youth ministry at the turn of the century: Hearing the voice of the people,”
The Journal of Youth Ministry, 4:1 (2005) 85–98
-Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, The Teaching Church: Moving Christian Education to Center Stage (Abingdon Press, 1993)
-Tonie Stolberg and Geoff Teece, Teaching Religion and Science: Effective pedagogy and practical approaches for RE teachers
(Routledge, 2010)

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3.2 Religious & Spiritual Development
Published Resources
-A. W. Astin, H. S. Astin, J. A. Lindholm, A. Bryant, K. Szelenyi, and S. Calderone, The Spiritual Life of College Students: A
National Study of College Students' Search for Meaning and Purpose (Higher Education Research Institute, 2005)
- J. O. Balswick, P. E. King, & K. S. Reimer, The reciprocating self: A theological perspective of development (IVP, 2005)
-Justin Barrett, Born Believers: The Science of Childhood Religion (Free Press, 2012)
-Vern Bengtson, Sourcebook of family theory & research (Sage, 2005)
-Vern Bengtson, Norella M. Putney, and Susan Harris, Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down Across Generations
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
-Peter Benson, Eugene Roehlkepartain and Kathryn Hong, Spiritual development (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2008)
-P. L. Benson, E. C. Roehlkepartain, and S. P. Rude, “Spiritual development in childhood and adolescence: toward a field of
inquiry,” Applied Developmental Science 7:3 (2003) 205–213
-P. L. Benson and E. C. Roehlkepartain, “Spiritual development: a missing priority in youth development,” New Directions for
Youth Development 118 (2008) 13–28
-Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, and Amanda Porterfield, Religion on Campus (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
-S. Cotton, K. Zebracki, S. L. Rosenthal, J. Tsevat, and D. Drotar, “Religion/spirituality and adolescent health outcomes: a
review,” Journal of Adolescent Health, 38: 4 (2006) 472–480
-G. Gallup and R. Bezilla, The Religious Life of Young Americans: A Compendium of Surveys on the Spiritual Beliefs and Practices
of Teenagers and Young Adults, (G. H. Gallup International Institute, 1992)
-P. E. King and C. J. Boyatzis, “Exploring adolescent spiritual and religious development: current and future theoretical and
empirical perspectives,” Applied Developmental Science, 8:1 (2004) 2–6
- Richard M. Lerner, Robert W. Roeser, and Erin Phelps, eds., Positive Youth Development and Spirituality From Theory to
Research (Templeton Foundation Press, 2008)
-Richard M Lerner; Jacqueline V Lerner; Janette Benson Positive Youth Development (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011)
-Lisa J. Miller; Peter L. Benson; Eugene C. Roehlkepartain; Peter C. Scales “Spirituality and Positive Youth Development” in
Lisa J. Miller. Ed. The Oxford handbook of psychology and spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2012)
-Lisa J. Miller. Ed. The Oxford handbook of psychology and spirituality (Oxford University Press, 2012)
-Eugene Roehlkepartain, The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence (Sage Publications, 2006)
-Eugene C. Roehlkepartain and Peter C. Scales, Youth Development in Congregations: An Exploration of the Potential and
Barriers (Search Institute, 1995)
-Daniel Shek, Rachel Sun, and Joav Merrick Positive youth Development: theory, research and application (Nova Science
Publishers, 2013)
-Daniel Shek, “Spirituality as a Positive Youth Development Construct” The Scientific World Journal (2012)
-R. K. Silbereisen and Richard M Lerner, Approaches to positive youth development (Sage Publications, 2007)
-R. K. Silbereisen , & R. M. Lerner ( Eds.), Positive development: Linking individuals, communities and social policies (Sage
Publications, 2007)
-Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
-Dena Phillips Swanson, Malik Chaka Edwards and Margaret Beale Spencer, Adolescence: development during a global era
(Elsevier Academic Press, 2010)
-Paul Wong, The human quest for meaning: theories, research, and applications (Routledge, 2012)

4 Homiletics and Science:


4.1 How to use science in sermons
Published Resources
-Graham Buxton, Chris Mulherin and Mark Worthing, God and Science in Classroom and Pulpit (Mosaic Press, 2012)
-Richard H. Cox, Rewiring Your Preaching: How the Brain Processes Sermons (Intervarsity Press, 2012)
-Deborah Haarsma & Scott Hoezee, eds. Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church (Center for
Excellence in Preaching, 2012)
-Ronald Numbers, Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (Oxford University Press, 2007)

4.2 Psychological studies of preaching (what works)


Web Resources
Article: William Struthers (July 15, 2013) “What Does Preaching Do to Your Brain?”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/july-web-only/neuroscience-what-does-preaching-do-to-your-brain.html
Article: John Ortberg, “Can Neuroscience Help Us Disciple Anyone?”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2014/summer/can-neuroscience-help-us-disciple-anyone.html

Published Resources
-Richard H. Cox, Rewiring Your Preaching: How the Brain Processes Sermons (Intervarsity Press, 2012)
-Theme: “Neuro Ministry, How Brain Science Informs Discipleship,” Leadership Journal (July 2014)

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5 Mission
5.1 Spiritual capital – role of religious communities in social capital
-Laurence R. Iannaccone, “Religious Participation: A Human Capital Approach,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29
(1990) 297-314
-Laurence R. Iannaccone, “The Consequences of Religious Market Structures: Adam Smith and the Economics of Religion,”
Rationality and Society (1991) 156-177
-Laurence R. Iannaccone, “Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-Riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives,” Journal of
Political Economy 100 (1992) 271-292
- Laurence R. Iannaccone , Roger Finke, and Rodney Stark, “Deregulating Religion: The Economics of Church and State,”
Economic Inquiry 35 (1997) 350-364
- P. E. King and J.L. Furrow, “Religion as a resource for positive youth development: Religion, Social Capital, and Moral
Outcomes, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 1:1 (2008) 34 - 49

5.2 Aid vs. entrepreneurial solutions

5.3 Outreach to scientific communities and university

-Pam Garza, Stephanie Artman, and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Is There Common Ground? An Exploratory Study of the
Interests and Needs of Community-Based and Faith-Based Youth Workers (2007)

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VI. WORLD RELIGIONS
1. Christianity and the Major World Religions
Web Resources
-Video: Lawrence Sullivan, “How the World's Religions Interpret Evolution”
http://www.counterbalance.org/perspevo/lawrsul-frame.html
-Video: “God and Creation: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Big Bang Cosmology”
http://www.counterbalance.org/godcr/index-frame.html

Published Resources
- Jacques Arnould, ed. Darwin and Evolution: Interfaith Perspectives (ATF Press 2010)
- John Hedley Brooke and Ronald L. Numbers eds., Science and Religion Around the World (Oxford University Press, 2011)
-Zainal Abidin Bagir, ed. Science and Religion in a Post Colonial World: Interfaith Perspectives (ATF Press, 2005)
-Patrick McNamara and Wesley J. Wildman, Science and the World's Religions: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution (ABC-CLIO,
2012)
-Stephen Prothero, God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World and Why Their Differences Matter
(HarperOne, 2011)
-Francis Peters, The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Princeton University Press, 1984)

2. Judaism
Web Resources
-Video: Daniel Matt: “Cosmology and Judaism”
http://www.counterbalance.org/godcr/dmatt-frame.html
-Video: Norbert M. Samuelson, “Physical Science and Jewish Eschatology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6RDkzYodI

Published Resources
-Nathan Aviezer, In the Beginning--: Biblical Creation and Science (KTAV Publishing House, 1990)
-Jeremy Benstein, The Way into Judaism and the Environment (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006)
-Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz, Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
- J. Brown, “Rabbi Reuven Landau and the Jewish reaction to Copernican thought in nineteenth century Europe,” Torah
UMadda Journal 15 (2008-9) 12–142
-Geoffrey Cantor & Marc Swetlitz, eds. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism (Chicago University Press, 2006)
-Geoffrey Cantor, Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650-1900 (Oxford
University Press, 2005)
-Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichman, eds. Jews and Sciences in German Contexts (Mohr Siebeck, 2007)
-Noah J. Efron, Judaism and Science: A Historical Introduction (Greenwood Publishing, 2007)
-Noah J. Efron, A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical
Context) (JHU Press, 2014)
-Benjamin Fain, Creation Ex Nihilo: Thoughts on Science, Divine Providence, Free Will, and Faith (Gefen Publishing House,
2007)
-Menachem Fisch, Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture (Indiana University Press 1997)
-Gad Freudenthal, Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Ashgate and Variorum, 2005)
-Matt Goldish, Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton (Kluwer, 1998)
-Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age (University of Chicago Press,
1984)
- J. Landa, Torah and Science (Ktav Publishing House, 1991)
-Daniel Matt, God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science & Spirituality (Jewish Lights, 1998)
-Levi Meier, ed. Jewish Values in Bioethics (Human Sciences Press, 1986)
-David W. Nelson, Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World (Jewish Lights, 2006)
-Aubrey Rose, ed. Judaism and Ecology (Cassell, 1992)
-Fred Rosner and Samuel Kotteck, eds. Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist and Philosopher (Jason Aronson, 1993)
-David B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (Yale University Press, 1995)
-Norbert Samuelson, Jewish Faith and Modern Science: On the Death and Rebirth of Jewish Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2008)
-Gerald L. Schroeder, The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom (Simon and Schuster, 2009)
-Natan Slifkin, The Challenge of Creation: Judaism's Encounter with Science, Cosmology, and Evolution (Zoo Torah, 2006)
-Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word (Harvard University Press, 2002)
-Miryam Z. Wahrman, Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide (UPNE, 2004)

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3. Islam
Web Resources
-Video: Mahmoud Ayoub, “Islam and the problem of evil”
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1732
-Video: Alnoor Dhanani, “Cosmology and Islam”
http://www.counterbalance.org/godcr/dhanani-frame.html
-Video: Timothy Winter,“Educating British Muslim Faith Leaders”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLKRXK9ZeyE

Published Resources

-Catarina Belo, Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science) (BRILL, 2007)
-Ahmad Dallal, Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History (Yale University Press, 2010)
-David Deming, Science and Technology in World History, Vol. 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages
(McFarland, 2010)
-Willem Drees and Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe:
Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century (Leiden University Press, 2008)
-Taner Edis, An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam (Prometheus Books, 2007)
-Mehdi Golshani, The Holy Qur’an and the Sciences of Nature: A Theological Reflection (Global Scholarly Publications, 2003)
-Nidhal Guessoum, Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science (I.B. Tauris, 2010)
-Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, and Aziz Bbaharuddin, Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust (Center for the Study of
World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2003)
-Muzaffar Iqbal, Science and Islam (Greenwood Publishing, 2007)
-Muzaffar Iqbal, Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives (Ashgate, 2012)
-David Marshall ed. Science and Religion: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (Georgetown University Press, 2012)
-Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Science and Civilization in Islam (Islamic Texts Society, 2003)
-Ted Peters, Muzaffar Iqbal and Syed Nomanul Haq, eds. God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives
(Ashgate, 2002)
-David C. Reisman and Jon McGinnis, Interpreting Avicenna: Science and Philosophy In Medieval Islam-Proceedings Of The
Second Conference Of The Avicenna Study Group (BRILL, 2004)
-George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (MIT Press, 2007)
-George Saliba, A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam (New York University Press,
1994)
-Ayman Shihadeh, The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies)
(Brill Academic, 2006)
-Ziauddin Sardar, “Muslims and the Philosophy of Science,” in Ehsan Masood, ed., How Do You Know? (Pluto Press, 2006)

4. Hinduism
Web Resources
-Video: Varadaraja Rman: How does God relate to time in Hinduism?
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3621
-Video: Varadaraja Rman: Cosmic Consciousness and Hinduism
http://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/2861
-Video: Jonathan Edelmann, “Hinduism, Religion and Science”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brCR_eCReFs

Published Resources

-Philip Clayton, Roddam Narasimha, B. V. Sreekantan, and Sangeetha Menon, eds. Science and Beyond: Cosmology,
Consciousness and Technology in the Indic Traditions (NIAS Publications, 2004)
-Michele Marie Desmarais, Changing Minds: Mind, Consciousness and Identity in Patanjali's Yoga-sutra and Cognitive
Neuroscience (Motilal Banarsidass, 2008)
-Gavin Flood, “Miracles in Hinduism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, ed. Graham H. Twelftree (Cambridge
University Press, 2011)
-David L. Gosling, Darwin, Science and the Indian Tradition (ISPCK, 2011)
-David L. Gosling, Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met Tagore (Routledge, 2007)
-David L. Gosling, Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2001)
-David L. Gosling, “Embodiment and Rebirth in the Buddhist and Hindu Traditions” Zygon 48 (Dec., 2013)
-Makarand Paranjape, Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of India (Anthem, 2008)

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5. Buddhism
Web Resources
-Video: Chris Impey, “Cosmology and the Human Condition”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qy1nYL9Rok
-Video: Chris Impey - Humble Before the Void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJLfDTWyUUg

Published Resources
-John B. Cobb, Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism (Augsburg Fortress, 1982)
-Francisca Cho and Richard K. Squier, Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism (Routledge, 2015)
-Jay Garfield, Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2015)
-Erik Hammerstrom, The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements (Columbia University Press,
2015)
-Paul O. Ingram, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
-Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard J. Davidson, The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing
Power of Meditation (New Harbinger Publications, 2012)
-Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Morgan Books, 2005)
-Donald Lopez, Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
-Vic Mansfield, Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge (Templeton Foundation Press,
2008)
-Paul David Numrich, ed. The Boundaries of Knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity, and Science (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
2008)
-Evan Thompson, Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia
University Press, 2014)
-Mary Evelyn Tucker, Duncan Ryuken Williams, eds. Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds
(Harvard University Press, 1998)
-Alan Wallace, ed. Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (Columbia University Press, 2003)
-Alan Wallace, and Brian Hodel, Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia University
Press, 2009)
-Amos Yong, ed. The Cosmic Breath: Spirit and Nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-Science Trialogue (Brill, 2012)
-Amos Yong, “Tibetan Buddhism Going Global? A Case Study of a Contemporary Buddhist Encounter with Science,” Journal of
Global Buddhism 9 (2008)
-Amos Yong, “Mind and Life, Religion and Science: The Dalai Lama and the Buddhist-Christian-Science Trilogue,” Buddhist-
Christian Studies 28 (2008): 43-63
-Amos Yong, “Trinh Thuan and the Intersection of Science and Buddhism: A Review Essay,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and
Science 42:3 (September 2007): 677-84

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