New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion

by Mary Gerhart, Allan Melvin Russell

Overview

This collection of eleven essays, written jointly by the authors, argues that science and religion should be seen as mutually enriching worldviews with no need of reconciliation. The essays are organised in three parts, which deal with the definition and development of the concept of metaphoric process and its implications for illuminating what it means to understand something, the exploration of the so-called bidisciplinary dialogue, and the differences and similarities between studying science and religion respectively.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474281584
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/06/2016
Series:	Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Mary Gerhart is former Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.

Allan Melvin Russell was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Mapping Science and Religion Together
I. Metaphoric Process: Reforming Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science
1. The Role of Metaphoric Process in the Development of Cognitive Complexity
2. Modeling Metaphoric Process
3. Metaphoric Process as the Tectonic Reformation of Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science
4. Sublimation of the Goddess in the Deitic Metaphor of Moses
II. Bidisciplinary Dialogue and Text in Science and Religion
5. The Genre Bidisciplinary Dialogue
6. A Scientist and a Theologian See the World: Compromise of Synthesis?
7. A Generalized Conception of Text Applied to Both Scientific and Religious Objects
III. Relating Science and Religion
8. Mathematics, Empirical Science and Theology
9. Limits of Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology as Resources for a Contemporary Theological Metaphysics – With Alternatives
10. Cog Is to Us As We Are to God
11. Myth and Public Science
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Gerhart (religious studies) and Russell (emeritus, physics) of Hobart and William Smith Colleges have collaboratively written on religion and science for 25 years. The metaphoric process as a means of understanding paradigm shifts and bi-disciplinary dialog are at the core of their lucid treatment of reconstructions of meaning in, and the relationship between, myth/theology and private/public science (which they distinguish between). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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