T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences: T&T Clark Companion

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This handbook surveys the many relationships between scientific studies of the world around us and Christian concepts of the Divine from the ancient Greeks to modern ecotheology. From Augustine to Hildegard of Bingen, Genesis to Frederick Douglass, and physics to sociology, this volume opens the intersections of Christian theology and science to new concepts, voices, and futures. The central goal of the handbook is to bring new perspectives to the foreground of Christian theological engagement with science, and to highlight the many engagements today that are not often identified as 'science-theology' discussions. The handbook thus includes several aspects not found in previous handbooks on the same topic: significant representation from the three major branches of Christianity-Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant; multiple essays on areas of modern science not traditionally part of the “theology and science” dialogue, such as discussions of race, medicine, and sociology; a collection of essays on historical theologians' approaches to nature and science. T&T Clark Handbook to Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences is divided into 3 sections: historical explorations, encompassing a eleven chapters from Aristotle to Frederick Douglass; Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox surveys of theology-science scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries; and ten explorations in Christian theology today, from Einsteinian physics to decolonial sociology. The 24 chapters than span the volume offer the reader, whether scholar, student, or layperson, an essential resource for any future conversations around science and Christian theology. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Historical Explorations Chapter One The Genesis Creation Accounts Chapter Two Wisdom’s Wonder and the Science of Awe Chapter Three Aristotle’s Sciences Inquiring Into Nature and the Divine Chapter Four Augustine and Science Chapter Five Basil and the Greek Fathers on Creation in the Hexaemeron Chapter Six Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene’s Cosmology Chapter Seven Hildegard of Bingen Chapter Eight Thomas Aquinas Chapter Nine John Calvin and Modern Science Chapter Ten George Washington Williams, Frederick Douglass, and Maria Stewart Chapter Eleven Neo-scholasticism and Anti-evolutionary Catholicism Part Two Transitioning from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century Chapter Twelve Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Catholic Voices on Nature and Science Chapter Thirteen Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Orthodox Voices on Nature and Science Chapter Fourteen Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Protestant Voices on Nature and Science Part Three Explorations in Christian Theology Today Chapter Fifteen the Encounter of Theology with Physics Chapter Sixteen the Human as World-maker Chapter Seventeen Theology and the Biological Sciences Chapter Eighteen Medical Innovation, Conventional Theology Chapter Nineteen Theology and the Psychological Sciences Chapter Twenty Theology and the Social Sciences Chapter Twenty-One Black Noise and the Sorrow Songs Chapter Twenty-Two Liturgy as Ethicizer Chapter Twenty-Three a Case Study for Lived Religion-and-science Chapter Twenty-Four Environmental Sciences and Christian Theology Contributors Index