Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion

By John Hedley Brooke and Geoffrey N. Cantor

Book Overview

This book, first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fact, neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence"--and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses. Along the way, they repeatedly demolish the clich s so typical of popular histories of the science and religion debate, demonstrating the impossibility of reducing these debates to a single narrative, or of narrowing this relationship to a paradigm of conflict.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002DZFZL4
• ISBN13: 9780195137064
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A stimulating analysis of interaction of science/religion

Review from The Tablet (31 Oct 1998): "The interactionof Christianity and science is more often than not discussed in a historical vacuum. Reconstructing Nature is, therefore, an unusual and stimulating exercise which surveys the interaction over the last 500 years. It produces new insights and challenges some widely held assumptions."