Articles
Editorial
Keith Fox
Pages: 99-99
Humility: A Neglected Scientific Virtue?
Meric Srokosz
Pages: 101-112
Abstract
This brief paper argues for the need to reinstate humility as a key virtue in the lives of scientists who are also Christians. In a world where the scientific enterprise increasingly lacks an agreed moral compass, as evidenced by the mounting number of cases of scientific misconduct coming to light, it seems incumbent on Christians to demonstrate Christ-likeness in their professional lives. Of all the Christian virtues humility is perhaps the one that most clearly distinguishes (or should distinguish) the believer from the world, whether that is the world of science or of daily life. Furthermore, humility may allow the scientist to avoid or overcome the temptations and the dangers of hubris associated with the scientific life.
Disputing Evolution Encourages Environmental Neglect
R.J. (SAM) BERRY
Pages: 113-130
Abstract
Doubts about evolution rumble on interminably in some Christian circles, despite virtual unanimity in the scientific community about the main features of evolutionary change and their mechanism(s). The reason for such debates seems to be a laudable desire to keep God implicated in the world he made. The irony is that this effort is unnecessary; it involves a misapprehension of God’s creating and sustaining activity, as well as almost certainly alienating outsiders – as Augustine pointed out sixteen centuries ago. But more far-reaching is the likelihood that it spawns an inadequate doctrine of creation and distracts attention from the biblical mandate of creation care. Has the time come to boldly go and take more seriously the admonition of Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (quoting Francis Bacon) that ‘no-one out of a weak conceit of sobriety should think or maintain that he can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word or in the book of God’s words [divinity or science], but that all should endeavour an endless proficiency in both’?
Rethinking the Historical Fall in the Light of Evolution: F.R. Tennant and After
JONATHAN W. CHAPPELL
Pages: 131-154
Abstract
Arguably F.R. Tennant played a pivotal role in precipitating academic discussion about the Fall and evolution between 1902 and 1939. This article outlines his proposals and explores the principal conversation partners during this period, showing that, whether in support of the Fall or opposed to it, they were spurred into contributing to the debate in direct response to Tennant’s pioneering writings.
Obituary: Professor Colin A. Russell, DSc, FRSC (1928-2013)
John Hedley Brooke
Michael Poole
Pages: 165-166
Book reviews
The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity
J. B. Stump
Alan G. Padgett (eds.)
(Keith Fox)
Pages: 167-167
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth
John Polkinghorne
(Lawrence Osborn)
Pages: 168-169
Spiritual Healing: Scientific and Religious Perspectives
Fraser Watts (ed.)
(David Girling)
Pages: 169-170
Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong
Conor Cunningham
(David Lahti)
Pages: 170-171
Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts. Volumes 1 and 2
Craig S. Keener
(Tony Costa)
Pages: 172-173
Supercooperators – Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour (or Why we need others to succeed)
Martin Nowak
with Roger Highfield
(Simon Kolstoe)
Pages: 174-175
The Cognitive Science of Religion
James A. Van Slyke
(Taede A. Smedes)
Pages: 175-176
God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History
Harry Lee Poe
Jimmy H. Davis
(Paul Wraight)
Pages: 176-177
God and the Scientist: Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne
Fraser Watts
Christopher C. Knight (eds.)
(P. Douglas Kindschi)
Pages: 177-178
The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox Realms
Michael Welker (ed.)
(James Orr)
Pages: 179-180
Cognitive Biology: Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds
Gennaro Auletta
(Andrew Robinson)
Pages: 180-182
Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church: Historical and Current Perspectives
Daniel Buxhoeveden
Gayle Woloschak (eds.)
(Alexei Nesteruk)
Pages: 182-184
God and Science in Classroom and Pulpit
Graham Buxton
Chris Mulherin
Mark Worthing
(Berry Billingsley)
Pages: 184-185
Wisdom, Science and the Scriptures: Essays in Honour of Ernest Lucas
Stephen Finamore
John Weaver (eds.)
(Peter Lynch)
Pages: 185-186
The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World
Karl W. Giberson
(Steve Bishop)
Pages: 186-187
The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts
Andrew Pinsent
(Andrei I. Holodny)
Pages: 187-188
Georges Lemaître: Life, Science and Legacy
Rodney D. Holder
Simon Mitton (eds.)
(Paul Wraight)
Pages: 188-189
Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church
Deborah Haarsma
Scott Hoezee (eds.)
(R.J. [Sam] Berry)
Pages: 189-191