Authors: Andrew B Irvine
Publish Date: 2010/09/30
Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 631-633
Abstract
This collection of scholarly essays is the first fruits of a 3year collaboration among 14 contributors from many disciplines including theoretical ecology biological anthropology cultural geography history of science and Christian theology What they share says the editor is a “passionate intellectual and personal concern” that people “think a bit more deeply about nature science and religion because each has been invoked to justify some of the most profound as well as pernicious claims advanced by humanity” 4That’s a tall order Nature science religion each topic in itself refers to objects in many ways poorly understood and liable to change To offer some guidance for deeper thinking the editor introduces five different “visions” of nature and the various contributors then probe their scientific and religious uses
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