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Science and Religion Reading List

General
- Barbour, Ian; Religion In An Age of Science: The Gifford Lectures: 1989-1991; Volume One; Harper, San Francisco ©1980.
- Barbour, Ian; Ethics In An Age of Technology; HarperSanFrancisco; ©1993.
- Barbour, Ian; When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers or Partners?; HarperSanFrancisco; ©2000.
- Cole-Turner, Ronald S.; An Unavoidable Challenge: Our Church in an Age of Science & Technology; ©1992 The Division of Education and Publication, UCBHM.
- Ellul, Jacques; The Technological Society; Vintage Books ©1964.
- Ferre, Frederick; Philosophy of Technology; University of Georgia Press ©1995.
- Kranzberg, Melvin, editor; Ethics in an Age of Pervasive Technology; Westview Press ©1980.
- Murphy, Nancey; Anglo-American Postmodernity: Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Religion, and Ethics; Westview Press 1997.
- Ochoa, George and Melinda Corey; The Timeline Book of Science; The Stonesong Press ©1995.
- Peacocke, Arthur R. 1989. "Theology and Science Today." In Cosmos as Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance, ed. Ted Peters. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
- Peacocke, Arthur; Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming -- Natural, Divine and Human; Fortress Press ©1993
- Polkinghorne, John; Faith, Science & Understanding; Yale University Press ©2000
- Resource Index; Science, Technology, and the Church: for Personal Study/Reflection and for Congregational Study/Resourcing; compiled by Richard Van Voorhis and Donald M. Pedley; ©1993 Division of Education and Publication, UCBHM.
- Shinn, Roger Lincoln; Forced Options: Social Decisions for the 21st Century; The Pilgrim Press ©1985.
- Wilson, Edward O.; Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge; Alfred A Knopf 1998.
Cosmology and Physics
- Asimov, Isaac. 1975.The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes; New York: Walker and Company.
- Capra, Fritjof. 1991. The Tao of Physics; Third Edition, updated. Boston : Shambhala.
- Davies, Paul; God and the New Physics; Touchstone ©1983
- Davies, Paul; About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution; Touchstone ©1995
- Davies, Paul; The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis For a Rationale World; Touchstone ©1992
- Einstein, Albert. 1961 Relativity: The Special and the General Theory; Authorized Translation by Robert W. Lawerance. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Hawking, Stephen W. 1988. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Toronto: Bantam Books.
- Jungerman, John A.; World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics; State University of New York Press, Albany ©2000.
- Murphy, Nancey and George F. R. Ellis; On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics; Augsburg Fortress ©1996
- Peters, Ted. 1989. "Cosmos as Creation," In Cosmos as Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance, ed. Ted Peters. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
- Talbott, Michael; The Holographic Universe; HarperPerennial; ©1991.
- Tipler, Frank J.; The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead; Doubleday ©1994.
- Wegter-McNelly, Kirk; "He Descended into Hell": A Liberation Response to the Use of Kenosis in On the Moral Nature of the Universe; CTNS Bulletin; Volume 18, Number 4; Fall 1998.
SETI
- Many Worlds: the New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life & the Theological Implications; Steven Dick, ed; ©2000, Templeton Foundation Press.
Biology, Genetics, and Medicine
- Bagemihl, Bruce; Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity; St. Martin's Press. New York ©1999.
- Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed.; Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity; Trinity Press International ©2001.
- Dubler, Nancy Neveloff and Carol B. Liebman; Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions; United Hospital Fund of NY ©2004.
- Gilbert, Scott; A Primer on Human Embryonic Stem Cells; Metanexus.
- Haymer, David; The Genome Race Is On; World Book Science Year 2000
- Haymer, David; Genetics; World Book Science Year 2001
- Haymer, David; What's Next For the Human Genome?; World Book Science Year 2002
- Kimbrell, Andrew; The Human Body Shop: The Engineering & Marketing of Life; HarperSanFrancisco ©1993
- Land, Dian J.; Scientists Meet with Dalai Lama To Study Meditation; Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology; July/August 2001; Vol. 1, No. 11/12.
- Matthews, Dale A. M.D.; The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer; Penguin Books ©1998.
- Meyers, Mary Ann; Symposium Examines Mind, Brain, and Personhood Links; Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology; July/August 2001; Vol. 1, No. 11/12.
- Newberg, Andrew M.D., Eugene D'Aquili, M.D., Ph.D., Vince Rause; Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science & The Biology of Belief; Ballantine Books; New York 2001.
- Pargament, Kenneth; Research Suggests Correlation Between Religion and Well-Being; Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology; July/August 2001; Vol. 1, No. 11/12.
- Ridley, Matt; Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters; HarperCollins; New York 1999.
- Rolston, Holmes III;Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins In Natural and Human History; ©1999; Cambridge University Press.
- Vedantam, Shankar; Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality: Researchers Examine Relationship Between Brain and Religion; Washington Post; Sunday, June 17, 2001; page A01.
- stem cells: How Far Will We Go?; National Geographic; July 2005.
- Biodiversity: The Fragile Web; National Geographic; Vol 195, No 2; February 1999.
- Stem Cells: A Primer; National Institutes of Health; May 2000.
- Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research Directions; National Institutes of Health; June 2001
- Stem Cell Research: Medical Progress with Responsibility; Department of Health (UK); June 2000.
Evolution & Creationism
- Phillip E. Johnson; Darwin On Trial; 2nd Ed. ©1993.
- Science and Creationism: A View from the Natural Academy of Science; February 1992.
- The Creation; US News and World Report; December 23, 1991.
- Percival Davis and David H. Kenyon; Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins; Second Edition; Haughton Publishing Co., Dallas TX.
- Ronald L. Numbers; The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism; University of California Press, Berkeley; 1993.
- Creationism, the Church and the Public School: A position paper of the UCBHM; October 1992.
- Jerry D. Korsmeyer; review of Made From Stardust: Exploring the Place of Human Beings Within Creation; by Denis Edwards; CTNS Bulletin 14.2/Spring 1994.
Mathematics
- Gardner, Martin; Mathematical Magic Show; Alfred A. Knopf; New York; ©1977.
- Goldblatt, Robert. 1987. Orthogonality and Spacetime Geometry. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Henle, James M.; An Outline of Set Theory; Springer-Verlag; NY ©1981.
- Huntley, H.E.; The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty; Dover Publications, New York ©1970.
- Pickover, Clifford A.; The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries At The Edge of Time; Plenum Trade, New York and London ©1997
- Plato; The Republic; translated by Benjamin Jowett; International Collectors Library. See also S. M. Cohen's notes: Theory of Forms
- Rotman, B. and G. T. Kneebone;The Theory of Sets and Transfinite Numbers; American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc.; NY ©1966.
- Rucker, Rudy; The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston; ©1984.
- Rucker, Rudy; Mindtools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston; ©1987.
- Rucker, Rudy. 1977.Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
- Singh, Simon; Fermat's Enigma; Doubleday. New York ©1997.
Cybernetics, Cyberspace and Cyborgism
- Cobb, Jennifer; Cybergrace: The Search For God in the Digital World
- Cochrane, Peter; CarboSilico Man - Soul Catcher; ©1998
- Cochrane, Peter and Chris Winter Biology, Computers, Sex and Sorting?; ©1998
- Coughlin, Kevin; The melding of man and machine; the Star-Ledger; 01/04/00
- Cowley, Geoffrey; DNA On The Dinner Table; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Dickey, Christopher; The The Cyber-Nomads; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Foerst, Anne; God in the Marchine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God; Dutton, NY; ©2004.
- Gilder, George; Tele-Cosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World; The Free Press; ©2000.
- Graham, Neill; Artificial Intelligence; Tab Books ©1979.
- Heim, Michael; The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality; Oxford University Press 1993.
- Jaki, Stanley L.; Brain, Mind and Computers; Regnery Gateway; Washington, D.C. ©1989
- Joy, Bill; Why the future doesn't need us; Wired Magazine; August 2000
  see also Rants and Raves.
  and join the discussion at whythefuture@wired.com
- Kurzweil, Ray; The Age of Spiritual Machines; Penguin Books; ©1999.
- Laurel, Brenda K.; Interface as Mimesis; in User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction; edited by Donald A. Norman and Stephen W.Draper; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers; Hillsdale, NJ ©1986.
- Levy, Steven; 2001: Why HAL Never Happened; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- McGrath, Peter; Building A Better Human; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Nordland, Rod; The Missing 'W' On The Web; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Pimentel, Ken and Kevin Teixeira; Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass; Second Edition; McGraw-Hill, Inc. ©1995.
- Simpson, Patrick K.; Artificial Neural Systems: Foundations, Paradigms, Applications, and Implementations; Pergamon Press, Inc ©1990.
- Talbot, Margaret; A Desire to Duplicate; New York times Magazine; February 4, 2001.
- Torrance, Steve (editor); The Mind and the Machine: philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence; ©1984 S. Torrance/Ellis Horwood Limited.
- Varney, Christine; The Death Of Privacy?; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Weizenbaum, Joseph; Computer Power and Human Reason: from Judgment to Calculation; W H Freeman & Co ©1976.
- Warwick, Kevin; I, Cyborg; Century ©2002.
- Winston, Patrick Henry; Artificial Intelligence; Third Edition; Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.; Reading, MA ©1992.
Islam and Science
- Bucaille, Maurice; The Bible, The Qur'an and Science; ©1979 North American Trust Publication.
- Iqbal, Muzaffar; Islam and Science; Ashgate: Burlington, VT ©2002.
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World; KAZI Publications, Inc. 1994.
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Science and Civilization In Islam; ABC International Group, Inc ©2001.
- The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions, Developing an Islamic Modernity -- a review by Muzaffar Iqbal of Kalam
- Shaking Up Islam Scholarship; Science & Spirit; march-april 2002.
- A Brief Illustrated Guide To Understanding Islam
- Introduction to Islam -- Science.
Religion, Society, and Science
- Appleyard, Bryan; Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man; Doubleday 1993.
- Brant, Martha; Sci-Fi War Uniforms?; Newsweek; February 24, 2003
- Cobb, John B.; Negative Consequences of Science's Impact On Theology; CTNS Bulletin; Volume 20 Number 1; Winter 2000.
- Cowley, Geoffrey; DNA On The Dinner Table; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Ferré, Frederick; Philosophy of Technology; University of Georgia Press ©1995.
- Gegax, T. Trent; Wired for Battle; Newsweek; March 3, 2003.
- Grimsrud, Ted; Triumph of the Lamb; Herald Press; ©1987.
- Harvey, David; One Ring To Rule Them All; ©1995.
- Levy, Steven; 2001: Why HAL Never Happened; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- McGrath, Peter; Building A Better Human; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Nordland, Rod; The Missing 'W' On The Web; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Samuelson, Robert J; In Dangerous Territory; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Shippey, Tom; J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century; Houghton Mifflin ©2000.
- Varney, Christine; The Death Of Privacy?; Newsweek Special Edition; December 2000 - February 2001, vol CXXVI No 26-A.
- Wall, James M.; Eyes are on you; Christian Century; January 11, 2003.
- Wink, Walter; Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination; ©1992 Augsburg Fortress.
- The Military Grade Enterprise: Communications for the warfighter today; Marconi.
Biblical Studies
- Borg, Marcus and Ray Riegert; East meets West; Bible Review, Vol XV, Number 5, October 1999.
- Murphy, Roland E. 1990. The Tree of Life; An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature. New York: Doubleday.
- Perdue, Leo G. 1994. Wisdom & Creation: The Theology of Wisdom Literature. Nashville: Abingdon Press.
- Polkinghorne, John; Science and The Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality; Yale University Press: New Haven ©2004.
- Schroeder, Gerald L.; The Science of God; ©1997. Broadway Books, NY.
- Stannard, Russell; Science and the Renewal of Belief; Templeton Foundation Press ©2004
Spirituality and the Ground of Being
- Cobb, John B. and David Ray Griffin; Process Theology: an Introductory Exposition; The Westminster Press. Philadelphia ©1976.
- Fox, Matthew; The Coming of the Cosmic Christ; Harper & Row, Publishers; San Francisco ©1988.
- Fox, Matthew; Meditations with Meister Eckhart; Bear & Company; Santa Fe, NM ©1983
- Fox, Matthew; Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality; Bear & Company; Santa Fe, NM ©1983.
- Hartshorne, Charles; The Divine Relativity: A Social Conception of God; Yale University Press. New Haven and London ©1948.
- Jacobi, Jolande; Complex Archetype Symbol in the Psychology of C. G. Jung; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Princeton University Press ©1959.
- Jung, C. G.; Psychology & Religion; Yale University Press. New Haven and London ©1938
  See also: A Brief Introduction to C. G. Jung and Analytical Psychology
- Neville, Robert Cummings. 1993. Eternity and Time's Flow. NY: State University of New York Press.
- Tamburello; Ordinary Mysticism
Ecumenism
- Knitter, Paul F.; No Other Name? A critical Survey of Christian Attitudes Toward the World Religions; ©1985, Orbis Books.
Ecology
- Christianity and Ecology; Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds.; ©2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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