God and the Book of Nature : Experiments in Theology of Science (Paperback)

Introduction Mark Harris

Part I Method and Metaphor

1 A Scientist-Theologian’s Perspective on Science-Engaged Theology: The Case for “Theology of Science” as a Sub-discipline within Science and Religion

Mark Harris

2 The Solidarity-Dehumanization Nexus: Addressing Three Barriers for a Science-Engaged Theological Ethic

Matthew Elia

3 The Book of Nature as an Augustinian Hermeneutical Project

Paul Allen

4 Augustinianism and the Book of Nature: Protestant Perils and Promise

Frederick Simmons

Part II Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature

5 Seeing God in Nature: Rethinking Bonaventure after Evolutionary Biology

Jamie Boulding

6 Creaturely Agency in Evolution and Theology

Megan Loumagne Ulishney

7 Saving the Macroscopic: Quantum Physics and the Theology of Nature

William Simpson and Simon Horsley

Part III Ecotheology and Nature

8 What Can Ecotheological and Agroecological Accounts Contribute to Biopolitical Perspectives on Farming?

Andrew Jones and Kin Wing (Ray) Chan

9 When Ecotheology Meets Paleoclimatology: Engaging Theology with the Deep History of Life on Earth

Bethany Sollereder

Part IV Naturalisms and Nature

10 Science, Determinism, and Free Will

Simon Kittle

11 Religiously Motivated Science Skepticism: When It Could Be Rational and How to Engage with it

Rope Kojonen

12 Both God and Nature: Providential Naturalism as a Middle Way in Contemporary Divine Action Debates

Josh A. Reeves and Peter N. Jordan

13 Prospects for a Naturalist, Critically Humanist, and Mystical Transreligious Understanding of Ultimate Reality

Wesley J. Wildman