Science-Engaged Theology

This Element gets beyond modernity's false categories of 'science' and 'religion' and enables theology to thrive in universities.

John Perry (Author), Joanna Leidenhag (Author)

9781009094054, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 June 2023

75 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.141 kg

This Element presents science-engaged theology as a reminder to theologians to use the local tools and products of the sciences as sources for theological reflection. Using critiques of modernity and secularism, the Element questions the idea that Science and Religion were ever transhistorical categories. The Element also encourages theologians to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines in a highly localised manner that enables theologians to make concrete claims with accountability and show how theological realities are entangled with the empirical world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction: memento naturam
2. Beyond the territories of science and religion
3. Neither serf nor queen: theology's new boldness in the university
4. Unity and pluralism in science
5. The sciences among the sources of theology
6. Conclusion: advice to those who would be science-engaged theologians
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Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]