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www.inters.org

Readers are encouraged to visit the website of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia on Religion and Science, edited by the Advanced School for Interdisciplinary Research (ADSIR), operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, and directed by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti. The documents and services presented are extensive and intended to meet the growing need for qualified and accurate information on the relationship between theology, philosophy and scientific thought. The website is principally addressed to those who work in the field of school and university teaching, in pastoral initiatives for the Christian evangelization of culture, or those who are interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of scientific research. This site has both scholarly and pastoral information, updated daily.

For worthwhile articles both scholarly and popular not cited by www.inters.org or www.metanexus.net, another helpful resource, we will note those articles on this page. Readers are welcome to send submit to cardinalsuenens@jcu.edu references to articles of note for posting.

 

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion & Science

• Readers are encouraged to visit the website of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia on Religion and Science, edited by the Advanced School for Interdisciplinary Research (ADSIR), operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, and directed by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti. The documents and services presented are extensive and intended to meet the growing need for qualified and accurate information on the relationship between theology, philosophy and scientific thought. The website is principally addressed to those who work in the field of school and university teaching, in pastoral initiatives for the Christian evangelization of culture, or those who are interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of scientific research. This site has both scholarly and pastoral information, updated daily.

The Vatican Observatory

Copernicus Center (Poland)

AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DOSER)

CERN

National Academy of Sciences – Science & Religion pages

OUR ONGOING BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Feel free to send a favorite, something we missed, to: suenens@jcu.edu.

Some of these books are classics, a few are for serious reading, most are accessible.
We will be sending copies of two books to readings groups of 6 to those whose pre-proposals are accepted.
More information will follow after pre-proposals are submitted.

Books:

Aczel, A. D. (2014). Why Science Does Not Disprove God. New York: HarperCollins.

Armstrong, K. (2000). The Battle for God. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Armstrong, K. (2010). The Case for God. New York: Anchor Books.

Barr, S. M. (2003). Modern Physics and Ancient Faith. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.

Barrow, J. D. (2008). New Theories of Everything: the Quest for Ultimate Explanation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Barrow, J. D., & Tipler, F. J. (1986). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford Oxfordshire

New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.

Butkus, R.A., Kolmes, S.A. (2012). Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue. Maryknoll, N.Y., Orbis Books*.

Carson, Rachel (1962) Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Carson’s exposé of the impact of chemical pesticides continues to have a profound influence.

Churchland, P. S. (2013) Touching a Nerve: the Self as Brain. New York: W.W. Norton.

Churchland, P. S. (2011). Braintrust: what Neuroscience Tells us About Morality. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Collins, F. S. (2006). The Language of God: a Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York: Free Press.

Consolmagno, G. (2008). God’s Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Darwin, Charles (1859). On the Origin of Species. Boston: Houghlin Mifflin/Penguin Classics.

Davies, P. C. W. (1982). The Accidental Universe. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Davies, P. C. W. (1992). The Mind of God: the Scientific Basis for a Rational World. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Dawkins, Richard (1976). The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford University Press
Taking evolutionary theory to a new level, Dawkins argued that individual organisms are “survival machines” for the genes that they carry. The book also introduced a now familiar cultural idea: the meme.

Ecklund, E. H. (2010). Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gleick, James (1987). Chaos. New York: Vintage.
This finalist for the Pulitzer Prize was the first popular science book to tackle the emerging field of chaos theory, and helped kick-start the subject across many fields.

Greene, B. (1999). The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: W. W. Norton.

Haught, J. F. (2003). Deeper than Darwin: the Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.

Haught, J. F. (2007). Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books.

Haught, J. F. (2011). Darwin, Teilhard, and the Drama of Life. Woodbridge, Conn.: American Teilhard Association.

Hawking, S. W. (1998). A Brief History of Time (Updated and expanded tenth anniversary ed.). New York: Bantam Books.

Heller, M. (2003). Creative tension: essays on science and religion. Philadelphia, Pa.: Templeton Foundation Press.

Johnson, E. A. (2014) Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love. Bloomsbury Academic.

Livio, M. (2013). Brilliant Blunders: from Darwin to Einstein–Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Lovelock, James (1979). Gaia. New York: Oxford University Press
Lovelock’s book introduced the Gaia hypothesis – that everything on and of the Earth is an interconnected, evolving and self-regulating system.

Malthus, Thomas (1798). An Essay on the Principle of Population. New York: Oxord University Press
This highly controversial work examined the possibility of humans outstripping natural resources.

McQueen, M. (2012). Bioethics Matters. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Novalis Publishing*.

Morris, Desmond (1967). The Naked Ape. New York: Vintage.
One of the first books to portray humans as the animals that we are, The Naked Ape caused quite a stir when it was first released.

Numbers, R. L. (2009). Galileo Goes to Jail: and Other Myths About Science and Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

O’Mera, T.F. Vast Universe. Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press*.

O’Murchu, D. (2013) In the Beginning was the Spirit. Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books*.

Polkinghorne, J. C. (2010). The Trinity and an Entangled World: relationality in physical science and theology. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub.

Polkinghorne, J. C., & Welker, M. (2001). Faith in the Living God. London: SPCK.

Post, S. G. (2002). Altruism & Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, & Religion in Dialogue. New York: Oxford University Press.

Randall, L. (2005). Warped passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions. New York: Ecco.

Randall, L. (2011). Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. New York: Ecco.

Saks, Oliver (1985). The Man who Mistook his Wife for A Hat. London: Duckworth; New York: Summit Books.

Saks, Oliver (2007). Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; London: Picador.

Skloot, Rebecca. (2011). The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown

Tipler, F. J. (2007). The Physics of Christianity. New York: Doubleday.

Verschuuren, G.M. (2013) God and Evolution? Science Meets Faith, Boston, MA, Pauline Books and Media*.

Ward, K. (2008). The Big Questions in Science and Religion. West Conshohocken, Pa.: Templeton Foundation Press.

Watson, James (1968). The Double Helix. Orion
An account of the discovery of DNA’s double helix by one of the Nobel winners behind the breakthrough.

This is an interesting resource, available on line in English and Spanish, and free. Take a look:
Benchmarks for Science Literacy is available from Oxford University Press.
ISBN-10: 0195089863
ISBN-13: 9780195089868
This resource can also be read online.
The online version of this resource is also available in Spanish.
http://www.project2061.org/publications/bsl/online/index.php

*Catholic Press Association Book Award winners for Faith and Science

 

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