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This extraordinary volume models a fruitful interaction between the profound discoveries of the natural sciences and the venerable and living wisdoms of the world's major religions. Bridging Science and Religion brings together distin-guished contributors to the sciences, comparative philosophy, and religious studies to address the most important current questions in the field. Sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley, it is an ideal starting point for novices, yet has much to offer academics, professionals, and students. Part 1 establishes a working methodology for bridge-building between scientific and religious approaches to reality. Part 2 lays down the challenge to current theological and ethical positions from genetics, neuroscience, natural law, and evolutionary biology. Part 3 offers a religious response to modern science from scholars working out of Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, Orthodox, Latin American Catholic, and Chinese contexts. Showcasing attitudes toward science from outside the West and an inclusive and comparative perspective, Bridging Science and Religion brings a new and timely dimension to this burgeoning field.

The cognitive science of religion is a relatively new academic field in the study of the origins and causes of religious belief and behaviour. The focal point of empirical research is the role of basic human cognitive functions in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs. However, many theologians and religious scholars are concerned that this perspective will reduce and replace explanations based in religious traditions, beliefs, and values. This book attempts to bridge the reductionist divide between science and religion through examination and critique of different aspects of the cognitive science of religion and offers a conciliatory approach that investigates the multiple causal factors involved in the emergence of religion.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... index of subjects. Abercrombie, Dr. John.--Sleep-talking, 279. Absolute principles of goodness, 168. Absurdities of opponents, 14, 64. Activity of mind in drowning persons, 277. Adler, Felix, objects to entertaining a desire for immortality, 327; regard for the here, and disregard for the hereafter, 327; adopts the argument of Strauss respecting souls, 328; his theory contrary to well-known facts, 329. Agassiz, Prof. L. A., adopts the views of Dr. Brown-Sequard respecting a superior power, 280; belief in the immortality of the lower animals, 313. Aksakof, Alexander, testifies to the reality of independent slate-writing, 2C2. Alison, Sir Archibald.-His words in their application to Spiritualism, 195. Axaxagoras (B.C. 500), on the powerof divination, 252. Andrews, Mrs. Louisa, defines the religious principle, 164. Angels the spirits of men, 302. Animals.--Their immortality assured, 16, 313. Animism, definition of, 114; permeates the Scriptures and the teachings of Christ, 114; not unscientific, 115; that of bar-barous tribes, 209. Antagonism Of Swedenborgians.--Why it exists, 365. Anthropology based on accepted facts, 263. Apollonius.--Immortality of everything, 314. Apollo's Oracles, 124. Apparitions of deceased persons, 162; of Christ, 168. Application of scientific tests, 180, 206. Aquinas, Tiiomas.--His theory respecting the soul's immateri-ality, 117; the duality of spirit, 209. Arago.--A maxim of his to remember, 112. Aristotle., His belief in relation to the spirit-body, 209; cog-nizant of spiritual phenomena, 310. Arnold, Matiiew.--The continuity of personal existence, 181. Ashburner, Dr. His happiness in a belief in spiritualism, 132. Aspirations for immortality, 328. Assailants Of Spiritualism.--What they have done and what they...

George Berkeley was considered "the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century". This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley’s life and thought; in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician; he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle of the Bermuda project. The essays collected in this volume, written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley’s figure, without selecting "major" works, nor searching for "coherence" at any cost. They will focus on different aspects of Berkeley’s thought, showing their intersections; they will explore the important contributions he gave to various scientific disciplines, as well as to the eighteenth-century philosophical and theological debate. They will highlight the wide influence that his presently most neglected or puzzling books had at the time; they will refuse any anachronistical trial of Berkeley’s thought, judged from a contemporary point of view.