Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters: Voices from by Fraser Watts,Kevin Dutton

By Fraser Watts,Kevin Dutton

Each international religion culture has its personal unique courting with technological know-how, and the science-religion discussion advantages from a better understanding of what this courting is. during this publication, contributors of the overseas Society for technological know-how and faith (ISSR) supply overseas and multi-faith views on how new discoveries in technology are met with insights concerning religious realities.The essays mirror the conviction that “religion and technological know-how each one continue most sensible while they’re pursued in discussion with one another, and in addition that our fragmented and divided international would receive advantages extra from a more robust discussion among technology and religion.”

In half One, George F. R. Ellis, John C. Polkinghorne, and Holmes Rolston III, each one a Templeton Prize winner, talk about their perspectives on why the technological know-how and faith discussion issues. they're joined partly by means of exclusive theologians Fraser Watts and Philip Clayton, who position the discussion in a world context; John Polkinghorne’s inaugural tackle to the ISSR in 2002 can be incorporated. partly 3, 5 individuals of the ISSR examine the precise relationships in their faiths to science:

•Carl Feit on Judaism

•Munawar Anees on Islam

•B.V. Subbarayappa on Hinduism

•Trinh Xuan Thuan on Buddhism

•Heup younger Kim on Asian Christianity

George Ellis, the lately elected moment president of ISSR, summarizes the contributions of his colleagues. Ronald Cole-Turner then concludes the booklet with a dialogue of the way forward for the technology and faith dialogue.

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