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Religion, Science and Naturalism

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

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For those curious about science and spirituality

Challenges misconceptions between science and faith

You will gain a deeper understanding of both realms

This book explores the relationship between science and religion from a naturalist perspective.

This book considers the consequences of the natural sciences (physics, biology, neurosciences) for our view of the world. Willem Drees argues that higher, more complex levels of reality, such as religion and morality, are to be viewed as natural phenomena and have their own concepts and explanations, even though all elements of reality are constituted by the same kinds of matter (ontological naturalism). Religion and morality are to be understood as rooted in our evolutionary past and our neurophysiological constitution. The book takes a more radical naturalist position than most on religion and science. But religion is not dismissed: religious traditions remain important as bodies of wisdom and vision, and the naturalist view of the world does not exclude a sense of wonder and awe, since at the limits of science questions about the existence of natural reality persist.

  • Title

    Religion, Science and Naturalism

  • Author

    Willem B. Drees (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands)

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 1998

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    445g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521645621

  • ISBN-10

    052164562X

  • Eden Code

    9576