Applebaum,
Wilbur. The Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of
Modern Science,
58:2, 155, J 2006. (James Hannam)
Index for
Books Reviewed in
Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith
March 2005 - June
2008
The reviews are listed in alphabetical order based on the first named author or editor.
ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQR STUV WXYZ
Index Based on First Author or Editor
HARD SCIENCE, HARD CHOICES by Sandra J. Ackerman. New York/Washington, DC; Dana Press, 2006. 142 pages, index. Paperback; $12.95. ISBN:1932594027. Reviewed by John M. Osepchuk, Full Spectrum Consulting, 248 Deacon Haynes Road, Concord, MA 01742.
Adams, David and Ken Schurb, eds. The Anonymous God: The Church Confronts Civil Religion and American Society, 57:4, 341, D 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
Applebaum,
Wilbur. The Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of
Modern Science,
58:2, 155, J 2006. (James Hannam)
CREATION, EVOLUTION AND MEANING by Robin Attfield. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. 234 pages, index. Paperback; $29.95. ISBN: 0754604748.
GOD FROM THE MACHINE:
Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition by William Sims Bainbridge.
Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2006. 179 pages. Paperback; $24.95. ISBN:
0759107440.
THY
KINGDOM COME: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens
America by Randall Balmer.
New York: Basic Books, 2006. 206 pages,
endnotes, index. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN: 0465005195.
Bander,
Bruce. Love That Works: The Art and Science of Giving,
57:2, 163, J 2005.
(Stan Hatkoff)
Barber, Nigel. Kindness in a Cruel World, 57:3, 262, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY: Prehistoric Art and Culture by Georges Bataille and Stuart Kendall, eds. Translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall. New York: Zone Books, 2005. 210 pages. Hardcover; $28.95. ISBN: 1890951552. Reviewed by David T. Barnard, Regina, SK Canada.
THE E-BOMB: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought by Doug Beason. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005. 256 pages, index. Hardcover; $26.00. ISBN: 0306814021. Reviewed by Kyle Hilton, South Hamilton, MA 01982.
EVANGELISTIC CALVINISM: Why the Doctrines of Grace Are Good News by John Benton. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2006. 32 pages. Paperback; $2.00. ISBN: 0851519296. Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 368 pages, index. Hardcover; $25.95. ISBN: 0060858834.
CREATION SET FREE: The Spirit as Liberator of Nature by Sigurd Bergmann. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005. 406 pages, index, bibliography. Paperback; $38.00. ISBN: 080282224X.
Bernstein, Ellen. The Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology, 57:4, 326, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: Critical Perspectives—Past and Present by R. J. Berry, ed. New York: T & T Clark International, 2006. 338 pages, index. Paperback; $49.50. ISBN: 0567030180.
AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT CARD: Are We Making the Grade? by Harvey Blatt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005. 272 pages, notes, index. Paperback; $27.95. ISBN: 0262025728.
Boa,
Kenneth. Augustine to Freud: What Theologians Tell Us about
Human Nature (And
Why It Matters), 57:3, 262, S 2005. (Robert Rogland)
Christopher J. Bosso,
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway, S 241
2006
Bouma-Prediger, Steven. For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, 57:2, 149, J 2005. (H. Newton Malony)
MONKEY
TRIALS AND GORILLA SERMONS: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to
Intelligent Design by Peter J. Bowler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2007. 256 pages, bibliography and index. Hardcover;
$24.95. ISBN: 9780674026155.
Joseph A. Bracken,
Christianity and Process Thought: Spirituality for a Changing
World, 245
S 2006
INTELLIGENT THOUGHT: Science vs. The Intelligent Design Movement by John Brockman, ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. 231 pages, appendix. Paperback; $14.00. ISBN: 0307277224.
MY EINSTEIN: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World’s Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy by John Brockman, ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 259 pages. Hardcover; $25.00. ISBN: 0375423451.
IN THE BEGINNING: Bibles Before the Year 1000 by Michelle Brown, ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. 360 pages. Hardcover; $45.00. ISBN: 9781588342409.
Browning, Don S. and Terry D. Cooper. Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies (2d ed.), 57:2, 164, J 2005. (H. Newton Malony)
CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGIES by Don S. Browning. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006. 254 pages, index. Paperback; $30.00. ISBN: 0802831710.
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything, 57:3, 253, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring the Sabbath, 247 S 2006
WHY
THIS NEW RACE: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity by Denise Kimber
Buell . New
York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 257 pages,
bibliography, indices. Hardcover; $47.50. ISBN: 0231133340.
UNDERSTANDING
GENESIS: Contemporary Adventist Perspectives by Brian Bull, Fritz Guy,
and Ervin Taylor, eds. Riverside, CA: Adventist Today Foundation, 2006.
195 pages; index. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 097861411
Bunn,
Isabella, ed. 444
Surprising Quotes about
the Bible, 57:4, 339, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Burge, Ted. Science and the Bible: Evidence-based Christian Belief, 58:1, 75, M 2006. (John W. Burgeson)
Nigel Brush, The Limitations of Scientific Truth, 244 S 2006
Byl, John. God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space and the Universe, 57:2, 151, J 2005. (Stan Hatkoff)
MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and the Arts from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2006. 343 pages, index. Hardcover; $32.50. ISBN: 0385495552.
Callahan, David. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, 57:4, 326, D 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
BEAUTY IN SCIENCE AND SPIRIT by Paul H. Carr. Center Ossipee, NH: Beech River Books, 2006. 194 pages. 37 illustrations including 16 color plates, index. Foreword by Philip Hefner. Paperback; $18.00. ISBN: 0977651479.
FAILED STATES: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006. 263 pages, notes, index. Hardcover; $24.00. ISBN: 0805079122.
JESUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY by James H. Charlesworth, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 740 pages. Paperback; $50.00. ISBN: 080284880X.
WELL AND THE SHALLOWS by G. K. Chesterton. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006. 203 pages. Paperback; $12.70. ISBN: 1586171267.
Chidester, David. Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture, 58:1, 85, M 2006. (Karl J. Franklin)
Clayton, Philip and Jeffrey Schloss, eds. Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological & Religious Perspective, 57:4, 327, D 2005. (James C. Peterson)
Clayton,
Philip and Arthur Peacocke, eds. In Whom We Live and Have Our
Being:
Panentheistic Reflections on God’s Presence in a Scientific World,
57:2,
154, J 2005. (H. Newton Malony)
THE RE-EMERGENCE OF EMERGENCE: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion by Philip Clayton and Paul Davies, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 330 pages, index. Hardcover; $99.00. ISBN: 0199287147.
ALL THAT IS: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century by Arthur Peacocke, edited by Philip Clayton. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007. 219 + xvi pages. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN: 9780800662271.
Cleary, William. Prayers to an Evolutionary God, 58:1, 82, M 2006. (Martin LaBar)
THE GOD EFFECT: Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strangest Phenomenon by Brian Clegg. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. 245 pages, notes, index. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN: 0312343418.
FAITH
AND FORCE: A Christian Debate about War by David Clough and Brian
Stiltner. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 304 pages,
bibliography and index. Paperback; $26.95. ISBN: 9781589011656.
Clouser, Roy A. The Myth of Religious Neutrality: An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories (Revised Edition), 58:1, 80, M 2006. (Donald N. Petcher)
Coats, Callum. Living Energies, 57:1, 66, M 2005. (Dennis L. Feucht)
TAKING FAITH SERIOUSLY by Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 382 pages, endnotes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; $29.95. ISBN: 0674017102.
EQUATIONS FROM GOD: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith by Daniel J. Cohen. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 242 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover; $50.00. ISBN: 0801885531.
Coleman, Simon and Leslie Carlin, eds. The Cultures of Creationism: Anti-Evolutionism in English-Speaking Countries, 57:2, 162, J 2005. (John W. Haas, Jr.)
EDEN’S GARDEN: Rethinking Sin and Evil in an Era of Scientific Promise by Richard J. Coleman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 301 pages. Paperback; $26.95. ISBN: 074255239X.
Colson, Charles W. and Nigel M. de S. Cameron, eds. Human Dignity in the Biotech Century, 57:2, 150, J 2005. (H. Newton Malony)
Copan, Paul and William Lane Craig. Creation out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration, 58:1, 79, M 2006. (Mark Koonz)
PANENTHEISM: The Other God of the Philosophers— From Plato to the Present by John W. Cooper. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2006. 368 pages, name index, subject index. Hardcover; $34.99. ISBN: 9780801027246.
Paul Copan, How Do You Know You're Not Wrong? Responding to Objections That Leave Christians Speechless, 241S 2006
OUR DAY TO END POVERTY: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference by Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007. 216 pages, index. Paperback; $14.95. ISBN: 9781576754467.
Davies, Douglas J. A Brief History of Death, 57:3, 260, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Davies, Paul. The Cosmic Blueprint, 57:2, 156, J 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
COSMIC
JACKPOT: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life by Paul
Davies.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 295 pages, index. Paperback; $26.00.
ISBN: 0618592261.
Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, 58:1, 78, M 2006. (John W. Burgeson)
WONDER AND WISDOM: Conversations in Science, Spirituality, and Theology by Celia Deane-Drummond. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006. 165 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 1599470918.
THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF NATURE: How Science Makes Sense of the World by Peter Dear. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 242 pages, bibliographical essay, notes. index. Hardcover; $27.50. ISBN: 0226139484.
Dembski, William A. The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design, 57:1, 67, M 2005. (Bryan Ezard)
Dembski,
William A., ed. Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find
Darwinism
Unconvincing, 57:1, 69, M 2005. (Glenn Morton)
DARWIN’S
NEMESIS: Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement by William
Dembski, ed. Downers
Grove, IN: InterVarsity Press, 2006. 357 pages.
Paperback; $25.00. ISBN: 0830828362.
Richard A . Deyo and Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises, 242 S 2006
A CHAOS OF DELIGHT: Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought by Geoffrey P. Dobson. London: Equinox, 2005. 478 pages. Paperback; $27.95. ISBN: 1845530195. Reviewed by Karl J. Franklin, Anthropology Consultant, SIL International, 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, TX 75236.
ORIGINAL SELFISHNESS: Original Sin and Evil in the Light of Evolution by Daryl P. Domning and Monika K. Hellwig. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 213 pages. Hardcover; $89.95. ISBN: 0754653153.
THE MAGIC NEVER ENDS: The Life and Work of C. S. Lewis by John Ryan Duncan. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Books, 2006. 194 pages. Paperback; $14.99. ISBN: 0806652802.Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
GALILEO’S CHILDREN: Tales of Science Vs. Superstition by Gardner Dozois, ed. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005. 350 pages. Hardcover; $25.00. ISBN: 1591023157.
Avery Cardinal Dulles, A History of Apologetics, 249 S 2006
SCIENCE AND NONBELIEF by Taner Edis. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. xxii + 287 pages, bibliography, index. Hardcover; $65.00. ISBN: 9780313330780.
Egan, Hope. Holy Cow: Does God Care What We Eat? 57:3, 252, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Ecker, Richard E. The Image of God and the Biology of Adam: A New Look at the Theology and Natural History of Our Beginnings, 57:2, 147, J 2005. (Ken Mickleson)
THE JESUS LEGEND: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. 479 pages, scripture index, general index. Paperback; $24.99. ISBN 9780801031144.
AN
ILLUSION OF HARMONY: Science and Religion in Islam by Taner Edis.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 251 pages, index. Hardcover;
$28.00. ISBN: 9781591024491.
THE
MARKETPLACE OF CHRISTIANITY by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F.
Hébert, and Robert D. Tollison. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press, 2006. 328
pages, index. Hardcover; $29.95. ISBN: 026205082X.
Ellens,
J. Harold and Wayne G. Rollins, eds. Psychology and the Bible:
A New Way to
Read the Scriptures, 57:2, 163, J 2005. (Richard Ruble)
IN
THE NAME OF HEAVEN: 3000 Years of Religious Persecution by Mary Jane
Engh. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006. 235 pages, index. Hardcover,
$25.00. ISBN: 159102454
INSPIRATION AND
INCARNATION: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament by Peter
Enns. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005. 197 pages,
glossary, index of
scripture and other ancient writings, index of subjects. Paperback;
$17.99 ISBN:
0801027306. Reviewed
by John W. Haas, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Gordon College,
Wenham,
MA 01984.
DAILY LIFE OF CHRISTIANS IN ANCIENT ROME by James W. Ermatinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Hardcover; $49.95. ISBN: 0313335648.
FABRICATING JESUS: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels by Craig Evans. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006. 290 pages. Paperback; $19.00. ISBN: 0830833188.
Falk, Darrel R. Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds between Faith and Biology, 57:4, 329, D 2005. (Louise M. Freeman)
Falk, Darrel R. Coming to Peace with Science, 57:3, 250, S 2005. (Joseph H. Lechner)
Fitch, David E. The Great Giveaway, 58:2, 160, J 2006. (Richard Ruble)
THERE IS A
GOD: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony
Flew (with Roy Abraham Varghese). New York: HarperOne, 2007.
222 pages. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN: 0061335290.
GOD IN THE MACHINE:
What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God by Anne Foerst.
New York: Plume/ Penguin, 2005. 212 pages. Hardcover; $15.00. ISBN:
0452286956.
Reviewed
by David T. Barnard,
Regina, SK Canada.
Forrest, Barbara and Paul R. Gross.
Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design,
57:2, 157, J
2005. (Allan H. Harvey)
ON THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie by Paula Fredriksen, ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. 284 pages. Paperback, $19.95. ISBN: 0520248538. Reviewed by Donna Bowman, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Honors College, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR 72035.
Freeman, Charles. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, 57:3, 258, S 2005. (Ken Mickleson)
Robert C . Fuller, Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality. 251 S 2006
SCIENCE VS. RELIGION? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution by Steve Fuller. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007. 177 pages. Paperback; $22.95. ISBN: 0745641225
INTRODUCTION
TO NEW AND ALTERNATIVE
RELIGIONS IN AMERICA (five volumes) by Eugene V. Gallagher
and W. Michael Ashcraft, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 1504
pages,
notes, selected bibliography, indices. Hardcover; $399.95. ISBN:
0275987124.
THE COSMIC MYSTIQUE by Henry A. Garon.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006. 235 pages, index. Paperback; $20.00.
ISBN:
9781570756320.
Geisler, Norman L. and Frank Turek. I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, 57:2, 159, J 2005. (Imad Libbus)
CREATION
AND THE COURTS: Eighty Years of Conflict in the Classroom and the
Courtroom by Norman Geisler. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007. 385
pages, bibliography, index. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN: 1581348363.
ORACLES
OF SCIENCE: Celebrity Scientists Versus God and Religion by Karl
Giberson and
Mariano Artigas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007,
273 pages, index. Hardcover; $29.95. ISBN: 0195310721.
SAVING DARWIN: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution by Karl W. Giberson. New York: HarperOne, 2008. 256 pages, index. Paperback; $24.95. ISBN: 9780061228780.
Gibson, Shimon. The Cave of John the Baptist: The Stunning Archaeological Discovery That Has Redefined Christian History, 57:2, 147, J 2005. (David Condron)
STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS by
Daniel Gilbert.
New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 2006. 280 pages. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN: 1400042666.
GOD’S
UNIVERSE by Owen Gingerich. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2006. 121 pages plus notes, acknowledgments, and
index. Hardcover; $16.95. ISBN: 9780674023703.
Good, Ron. Science and Religious Habits of Mind: Irreconcilable Tensions in the Curriculum, 58:2, 161, J 2006. (Karl J. Franklin)
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore. New York: Rodale, 2006. 321 pages. Paperback; $21.95. ISBN: 1594865671.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION: 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 from Aristotle to Copernicus by Edward Grant. Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 307 pages. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN: 0801884012.
Greenspan, Stanley I. and Stuart G. Shanker. The First Idea, 57:1, 70, M 2005. (Glenn Morton)
Greenawalt, Kent. Does God Belong in Public Schools? 58:2, 161, J 2006. (Dennis Cheek)
Griffin, David Ray. Two Great Truths: A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith, 58:2, 152, J 2006. (John Burgeson)
Guillen, Michael. Can a Smart Person Believe in God? 57:3, 259, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
HAVE A NICE DOOMSDAY: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World by Nicholas Guyatt. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 288 pages. Paperback; $13.95. ISBN: 9780061152245.
ORIGINS: A Reformed Look at Creation, Design, and Evolution by Deborah B. Haarsma and Loren D. Haarsma. Grand Rapids, MI: Faith Alive, 2007. 255 pages. Paperback; $13.25. ISBN: 978159252276.
Haas, Peter J., et al. Human Rights and the World's Major Religions, 58:1, 83, M 2006. (Richard Ruble)
Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 58:1, 84, M 2006. (Richard Ruble)
Hamma,
Robert M. Earth’s Echo: Sacred Encounters with Nature,
57:1, 67, M
2005. (Richard Ruble)
10
QUESTIONS SCIENCE CAN’T ANSWER (YET) by Michael Hanlon. New York:
Macmillan, 2007. 186 pages, index. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN:
9780230517585.
Harper,
Jr., Charles L., ed. Spiritual Information: 100 Perspectives
on Science and
Religion, 57:4, 329, D 2005. (Dennis Cheek)
ORIGINS: A Reformed Look at Creation, Design, and Evolution by Deborah B. Haarsma and Loren D. Haarsma. Grand Rapids, MI: Faith Alive, 2007. 255 pages. Paperback; $13.25. ISBN: 978159252276.
THE END OF FAITH by Sam Harris. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. 350 pages. Paperback; $13.95. ISBN: 0393327655.
LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION by Sam Harris. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. 100 pages. Hardcover; $16.95. ISBN: 0307265773.
Hart, David Bentley. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, 57:4, 338, D 2005. (Adam Drozdek)
SOMETHING THERE: The Biology of the Human Spirit by David Hay. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2007. 336 pages, index. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 1599471140.
HERE, EYEBALL THIS! by David Heddle. Saga Books, 2005. 205 pages. Paperback; $15.95. ISBN: 189493637X.
Hellyer,
Marcus. Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early
Modern Germany,
57:3, 254, S 2005. (Robert Rogland)
THE
NEW FRONTIER OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE: Religious Experience,
Neuroscience and the Transcendent by John Hick. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006. 228 pages. Paperback; $31.95. ISBN: 0230507719.
Hill, Jonathan. What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us? How It Shaped the Modern World, 57:4, 340, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Hodgson, Peter E. Theology and Modern Physics, 58:2, 156, J 2006. (Dennis W. Cheek)
Holder, Rodney. God, the Multiverse, and Everything, 57:4, 335, D 2005. (Fraser F. Fleming)
Holton, Gerald. Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others, 58:1, 76, M 2006. (Alan J. DeWeerd)
Horgan, John. Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border between Science and Spirituality, 57:1, 67, M 2005. (Richard Ruble)
THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT by Thomas Howard. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2007. 355 pages. Paperback; $16.95. ISBN: 1586171321.
SCIENCE’S BLIND SPOT: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism by Cornelius G. Hunter. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007. Paperback; $14.99. ISBN: 9781587431708.
THE COUNTER-CREATIONISM HANDBOOK by Mark Isaak. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 368 pages, index, bibliography. Hardcover; $65.00. ISBN: 031333305X.
SCIENCE AND ISLAM by Muzaffar Iqbal. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 209 pages plus annotated bibliography and index. Hardcover; $65.00. ISBN: 9780313335761.
Jackelén, Antje. Time & Eternity: The Question of Time in Church, Science, and Theology, 58:2, 158, J 2006. (Karl J. Franklin)
Jeeves, Malcolm, ed. From Cells to Souls—and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature , 58:1, 83, M 2006. (V. Elving Anderson)
THE SCOPES “MONKEY TRIAL” by Anne Janette Johnson. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2007. 245 pages, index, Hardcover; $44.00. ISBN: 0780809556.
Jones, Lindsay, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion, 57:4, 341, D 2005. (Dennis Cheek)
Jones, D. Gareth. Designers of the Future: Who Should Make the Decisions? 58:2, 149, J 2006. (Ken Mickleson)
IS
BELIEF IN GOD GOOD, BAD OR IRRELEVANT?
by Preston Jones,
ed. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006. 158 pages. Paperback;
$13.00.
ISBN: 0830833773.
MISQUOTING
TRUTH: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus by
Timothy Paul Jones. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007. 176 pages,
indexes. Paperback; $13.00. ISBN: 9780830834471.
Josephson, Allan M. and John R. Peteet, eds. Handbook of Spirituality and Worldview in Clinical Practice, 58:2, 162, J 2006. (Richard Ruble)
TOWARD A THEOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOUR: The Descent of Science by Christopher B. Kaiser. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. 260 pages, bibliography, indexes. Paperback; $29.95. ISBN: 9780754641605.
Koenig,
Harold G. Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for
Healing, 58:2,
154, J 2006. (Joseph H. Lechner)
THE
ATHEIST’S BIBLE: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts by
Joan Konner, ed. Los Angeles: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 195
pages. Hardcover; $16.95. ISBN: 9780061349157
Knight, David M. and Matthew D. Eddy, eds. Science and Belief: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science: 1700–1900, 58:2, 155, J 2006. (Dennis Cheek)
TAKING BACK THE GOOD BOOK: How America Forgot the Bible and Why It Matters to You by Woodrow Kroll. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007. 218 pages, appendices. Hardcover; $19.99. ISBN: 1581348266.
Kurtz,
Paul, ed. Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
57:2, 150, J 2005. (Oskar
Gruenwald)
NOT
IN HIS IMAGE: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
by John Lamb Lash. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing,
2006. xix + 441 pages, index. Paperback; $21.95. ISBN: 193149892X.
SCIENCE
AND THE AKASHIC FIELD: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin
Laszlo. Updated 2d ed. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2007. 194
pages. Paperback; $14.95. ISBN: 1594771812.
AMERICAN
RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics
by Bruce Ledewitz. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. 242 pages. Hardcover;
$49.95. ISBN: 0275994600.
Daniel
Lee
and Robert O'Gorman, eds., Social Work and Divinity, 251
S 2006
FOSSILS AND FAITH: Finding Our Way through the Creation Controversy (4 lessons) by Thea Nyhoff Leunk. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2005. Leader’s Guide, 67 pages. ISBN: 1592551998. Paperback; $12.95. Student newspaper for each session; $4.95. Useful for high school students grades 11 and 12 or young adults/adults in either a day school or church school setting.
DISCOVER CREATION AND SCIENCE (Walk With Me Grades 6–8, Year 3, Unit 5, 4 lessons). Grand Rapids MI: Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2006. Leader’s Guide, 44 pages. ISBN: 1529551637. Paperback; $5.95. Student materials for each session; $3.15. A study for grades 6–8 or youth groups on creation and science.
Steven D .
Levitt and
Stephen J . Dubner,
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,
250
S 2006
PAUL
MEETS MUHAMMAD: A Christian-Muslim Debate on the Resurrection by
Michael R. Licona.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006. 175 pages.
Paperback; $13.99. ISBN: 0801066026.
Lightman, Alan. A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, 57:3, 251, S 2005. (Moorad Alexanian)
UNCERTAINTY:
Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by
David Lindley. New
York: Doubleday, 2007. 260 pages, index. Paperback;
$26.00. ISBN: 0385515065.
Lindsey,
David Michael. The Beast in
Sheep’s Clothing: Exposing the
Lies of Godless Human Science, 58:1, 75, M 2006. (John W.
Burgeson)
RENEWAL
IN THE WILDERNESS by John Lionberger. Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths
Publishing, 2007. 158 pages, references, suggested readings. Paperback;
$16.99. ISBN: 9781594732195.
SCIENCE, SOUL, AND THE SPIRIT OF NATURE: Leading Thinkers on the Restoration of Man and Creation by Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2005. 303 pages. Paperback; $18.00. ISBN: 1591430550.
RELIGION AND THE NEW ECOLOGY: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux by David M. Lodge and Christopher Hamlin, eds. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. xiv + 325 pages, index. Paperback; $40.00. ISBN: 9780268034043.
Losch, Richard R. The Uttermost Part of the Earth: A Guide to Places in the Bible, 57:4, 338, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Lubenow, Marvin L. Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils, 57:4, 325, D 2005. (Robert Rogland)
Ludemann, Gerd. The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry, 57:2, 161, J 2005. (Richard Ruble)
FREUD’S WIZARD: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis by Brenda Maddox. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. 331 pages, index. Paperback; $26.00. ISBN13: 9780306815553.
ENDING POVERTY: A 20/20 Vision by Nancy Maeker and Peter Rogness. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2006. 112 pages. Paperback; $10.99. ISBN: 0806680032.
Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul, 248 S 2006
Mallary, Michael. Our Improbable Universe: A Physicist Considers How We Got Here, 58:1, 82, M 2006. (Richard Ruble)
MIND, LIFE, AND UNIVERSE: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset, eds. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2007. 352 pages, indices. Paperback; $21.95. ISBN: 978193392431.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE SECULAR by Robert A. Markus. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 112 pages. Paperback; $15.00. ISBN: 0268034907.
Martin-Schramm, James B. and Robert L. Stivers. Christian Environmental Ethics: A Case Method Approach, 57:1, 65, M 2005. (Richard Ruble)
McDougall, Dorothy C. The Cosmos as the Primary Sacrament: The Horizon for an Ecological Sacramental Theology, 57:2, 147, J 2005. (David Condron)
McGrath, Alister. Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, 57:2, 152, J 2005. (Richard Ruble)
McGrath, Alister. Creation, 57:4, 337, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
McGrath, Alister E. The Science of God: An Introduction to Scientific Theology, 57:3, 257, S 2005. (Fraser F. Fleming)
DOUBTING: Growing through the Uncertainties of Faith by Alister McGrath. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006, 156 pages. Paperback; $13.00. ISBN: 0830833528.
ORDER
OF THINGS: Explorations in Scientific
Theology by Alister E.
McGrath. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 255 + xxix pages,
bibliography, index. Paperback; $37.95. ISBN: 1405125551.
DARK
AGES: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior by Lee McIntyre.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 121 pages, index. Hardcover; $24.95.
ISBN: 0262134691.
JACOB’S
MIRROR: A Reconciliation of Science and Religion by Bill McKee.
Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2006. 48 pages. Hardcover; $20.00.
ISBN: 142723276. Paperback; $10.00. ISBN: 142723268.
McMullin,
Ernan, ed. The Church and Galileo, 58:1, 77, M
2006. (Robert Rogland)
THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF FRANCIS BACON’S THOUGHT by Stephen A. McKnight. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 193 pages, index. Hardcover; $37.50. ISBN: 086216099. Reviewed by Dennis W. Cheek, Vice President of Education, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110.
WHERE GOD AND SCIENCE MEET: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion by Patrick McNamara, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Three volumes, 862 pages, indices. Hardcover; $275 set. ISBN: 0275987884.
McNeil, Brenda Salter and Rick Richardson. The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change, 58:2, 162, J 2006. (Richard Ruble)
Menuge, Angus J. L., ed. Reading God’s World: The Scientific Vocation, 58:2, 151, J 2006. (Mark A. Strand)
PERSPECTIVES ON AN EVOLVING CREATION by Keith B. Miller, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003. 526 pages. Paperback; $36.00. ISBN: 0802805124.
Miller, Roman J., Beryl H. Brubaker, and James C. Peterson, eds. Viewing New Creations with Anabaptist Eyes: Ethics of Biotechnology, 58:2, 149, J 2006. (Dennis W. Cheek)
Mirkin, Marsha. The Women Who Danced by the Sea: Finding Ourselves in the Stories of Our Biblical Foremothers, 57:4, 338, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
HEAT: How
to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot.
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007. xx + 278 pages, index. Hardcover; $22.00.
ISBN: 9780896087798.
CULTURE MATTERS: A Call
for Consensus on Christian Cultural Engagement
by T. M. Moore. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007. 172 pages, notes, study
questions. Paperback; $16.99. ISBN: 1587431874.
THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE by Chris Mooney. New York: Basic Books, 2006. 342 pages, index. Paperback; $14.95. ISBN: 0465046762.
SCIENCE AND GRACE: God’s Reign in the Natural Sciences by Tim Morris and Don Petcher. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2006. 352 pages. Paperback; $17.99. ISBN: 1581345496.
Muncaster, Ralph O. Dismantling Evolution: Building the Case for Intelligent Design, 57:2, 153, J 2005. (O. C. Karkalits)
THE ARCHIMEDES CODEX: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz and William Noel. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2007. 313 pages. Hardcover; $27.50. ISBN: 030681580X.
THE REFORMATION: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World by Stephen J. Nichols. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2007. 160 pages. Paperback; $12.99. ISBN: 1581348293.
Nichols, Terrence. The Sacred Cosmos: Christian Faith and the Challenge of Naturalism, 57:2, 151, J 2005. (Fraser F. Fleming)
DANCING AT THE DEAD SEA: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hot Spots by Alanna Mitchell. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 239 pages, index. Hardcover; $25.00. ISBN: 0226532003.Trevor Norton, Underwater to Get out of the Rain, 243 S 2006
Nuland, Sherwin B. Maimonides, 58:1, 77, M 2006. (Robert Rogland)
O’Leary, Denyse. By Design or by Chance? 57:3, 255, S 2005. (George L. Murphy)
O’Leary, Denyse. By Design or by Chance? 57:4, 336, D 2005. (Robert Rogland)
Olsen, Lawrence. Two Revelations: A High View of Science and Scripture, 57:4, 328, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
SCIENCE AND RELIGION, 1450–1900 by Richard Olson. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 292 pages. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 0801884004.
Amy Orr-Ewing, Is the Bible Intolerant? Sexist? Oppressive? Homophobic? Outdated? Irrelevant? 247 S 2006
Alan G. Padgett and Patrick R. Keifert, eds., But Is it All True? The Bible and the Question of Truth, 248 S 2006
Park, David. The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance, 57:4, 332, D 2005. (Dennis Cheek)
Peacocke, Arthur. Evolution: The Disguised Friend of Faith? Selected Essays, 57:4, 334, D 2005. (Ken Mickleson)
THE MUSIC OF CREATION: Theology and the Sciences by Arthur Peacocke and Ann Pederson. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006. 106 pages. Paperback; $20.00 ISBN: 0800637569. Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
THE AGE OF REASON by Meic Pearse. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006. 457 pages, including index. Hardcover; $29.99. ISBN: 0801012783.
Percy, Martyn. Engaging with Contemporary Culture: Christianity, Theology and the Concrete Church, 58:1, 81, M 2006. (Dennis Cheek)
ANTICIPATING OMEGA: Science, Faith and Our Ultimate Future by Ted Peters. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2006. 221 pages. Hardcover; $61.30. ISBN: 9783525569788.
Peters, Ted and Martinez Hewlett. Evolution from Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation, and Convergence, 57:3, 256, S 2005. (George L. Murphy)
THE STEM CELL DEBATE by Ted Peters. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. 122 pages, notes. Paperback; $7.00. ISBN: 9780800662295.
AMERICAN THEOCRACY: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. 394 pages, notes, index. Hardcover; $26.95. ISBN: 067003486X.
Phillips, D. Z. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God, 57:4, 337, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Harry Lee Poe
and Stanley Mattson, eds., What God Knows: Time and the
Question of Divine
Knowledge, 246 S 2006
Pojman, Louis P., ed. The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature, 57:3, 249, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Polkinghorne, John C. Science and Providence: God’s Interaction with the World, 58:2, 150, J 2006. (Fraser F. Fleming)
QUARKS, CHAOS AND CHRISTIANITY by John Polkinghorne. New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company, 2005. 122 pages. Paperback; $14.95. ISBN: 0824524063.
ONE WORLD: The Interaction of Science and Theology by John C. Polkinghorne. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2007. 116 pages, notes, glossary, index. Paperback; $14.95. ISBN: 9781599471112.
QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THEOLOGY: An Unexpected Kinship by John Polkinghorne. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 128 pages, index. Hardcover; $26.00. ISBN: 9780300121155.
THE PROTESTANT EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA by Amanda Porterfield. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 296 pages, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover; $55.00. ISBN: 0313328013. eBook; $60.50. ISBN: 0313086214.
Post, S. G. Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression, 57:3, 260, S 2005. (Todd K. Pedlar)
Price, Robert M. and Jeffery Jay Lowder, eds. The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave, 57:4, 339, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
THE REASON DRIVEN LIFE by Robert M. Price. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006. 364 pages. Hardcover; $24.00. ISBN: 1591024765.
THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith by Robert J. Priest and Alvaro L. Nieves, eds. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006. 356 pages, index. Paperback; $35.00. ISBN: 0195310578.
Primavesi,
Anne. Gaia’s Gift: Earth, Ourselves, and God After Copernicus,
57:2,
148, J 2005. (Charles B. Koons)
THE
HAPPINESS TRIP: A Scientific Journey by Eduardo Punset. White Rivers
Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007. 160 pages. Paperback;
$12.95. ISBN: 1933392448.
Radin,
Dean. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic
Phenomena,
58:2, 163, J 2006. (Leland P. Gamson)
Rana, Fazale and Hugh Ross. Who Is Adam? 57:4, 325, D 2005. (Henry F. Schaefer III)
THEOLOGY THAT MATTERS: Ecology, Economy, and God by Darby Kathleen Ray, ed. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006. 245 pages, notes, index. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN: 0800637941.
Reagan, Michael, ed. Reflections on the Nature of God, 57:2, 153, J 2005. (Richard Ruble)
Reagan, Michael, ed. Inside the Mind of God: Images and Words of Inner Space, 57:3, 255, S 2005. (Richard Ruble)
DEFENDING
ANIMAL RIGHTS by Tom Regan. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 2007. 180 pages, index. Paperback; $20.00. ISBN: 9780252074155
FRANCIS
CRICK: The Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley.
New York: Atlas Books, HarperCollins, 2006. 213 pages, no index.
Hardcover;
$19.95. ISBN: 006082333X.
PERSON, GRACE, AND GOD by Philip A. Rolnick. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007. 280 pages, index. Paperback; $28.00. ISBN: 9780802840431.
SCIENCE & RELIGION: A Critical Survey by Holmes Rolston III. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006. xlv + 357 pages. Paperback; $24.95. ISBN: 1599470993.
CREATION AS SCIENCE by Hugh Ross. Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress Publishing Group, 2006. 288 pages. Hardcover; $21.99. ISBN: 1576835782.
Rossing, Barbara R. The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, 57:4, 340, D 2005. (Richard Ruble)
EMINENT
LIVES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE AND RELIGION by Nicolaas A. Rupke,
ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. 255 pages, index. Paperback;
$49.95. ISBN:
3631568033.
Ruse, Michael. The Evolution-Creation Struggle, 57:4, 336, D 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
Russell, Robert John, ed. Fifty Years in Science and Religion: Ian G. Barbour and His Legacy, 57:4, 327, D 2005. (Robert Rogland)
DOUBTING DARWIN? Creationist Designs on Evolution by Sahotra Sarkar. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. xvii + 214 pages. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 1405154918.
MAPPING PARADISE: A History of Heaven on Earth by Alessandro Scafi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 400 pages. Hardcover; $55.00. ISBN: 0226735591. Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
WORLDS OF THEIR OWN: Insights into PseudoScience from Creationism to the End Times by Robert Schadewald. Excelsior, MN: SangFroid Press, 2006. 240 pages plus references, appendices, and bibliography. Hardcover; $21.95. ISBN: 0917939158.
Schaefer, Henry F. Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence? 57:1, 65, M 2005. (Glenn Morton)
INTO
THE COOL: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics and Life by Eric Schneider and
Dorion Sagan. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 362
pages. Paperback; $18.00. ISBN: 0226739376.
ESCAPE
FROM REASON: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thought by
Francis A. Schaeffer. Downers
Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2006. 123 pages.
Paperback; $8.00. ISBN: 0830834052.
EXPOSED: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2007. 224 pages. Hardcover; $22.95. ISBN: 978193392158.
EVOLUTION: A Scientific American Reader edited by Scientific American. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 355 pages. Paperback; $22.00. ISBN 0226742695.
Scott, Eugenie C. Evolution vs Creationism: An Introduction, 57:4, 334, D 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
Scott, Eugenie C. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction, 58:1, 79, M 2006. (Dennis Cheek)
THE EVOLUTION OF RATIONALITY: Interdisciplinary Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel Van Huyssteen by F. LeRon Shults, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006. 426 pages. Hardcover; $50.00. ISBN: 0802827896.
Silverman, Kenneth. Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, 57:3, 253, S 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
SMITHSONIAN TITLES by Seymour Simon. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 12 volumes. Hardcover; $6.99 each. Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
Sire,
James W. The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog,
57:2, 159, J
2005. (J. W. Haas, Jr.)
Sire, James
W. Naming the Elephant: Worldview as
a Concept, 57:3, 259, S 2005. (O. C. Karkalits)
A LITTLE PRIMER ON HUMBLE APOLOGETICS by James W. Sire. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006. 112 pages. Paperback; $12.00. ISBN: 083083382X.
SERVE GOD,
SAVE THE PLANET:
A Christian Call to Action by J. Matthew
Sleeth. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing,
2006. 216 pages.
Hardcover; $25.00. ISBN: 1933392010.
THE TOP 10 MYTHS ABOUT EVOLUTION by Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 200 pages, index. Paperback; $14.00. ISBN: 159102479X.
Siroj Sorajjakool, When Sickness Heals: The Place of Religious Belief in Healthcare, 243 S 2006A BIBLICAL CASE FOR AN OLD EARTH by David Snoke. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006. 195 pages plus appendix, references, and index. Paperback; $14.99. ISBN: 0801066190.
A BIBLICAL CASE FOR AN OLD EARTH by David Snoke. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006. 195 pages plus appendix, references, and index. Paperback; $14.99. ISBN: 0801066190.
GOD, HUMANITY, AND THE COSMOS: A Companion to the Science-Religion Debate by Christopher Southgate, et al. 2d ed.; New York: T & T Clark International, 2005. 443 pages, index. Paperback; $49.95. ISBN 0567030164. Reviewed by Donald Nield, Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
HOLLOW EARTH: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastic Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines beneath the Earth’s Surface by David Standish. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. 289 pages, bibliography. Paperback; $24.95. ISBN: 0306813734. Reviewed by John W. Burgeson, Rico Community Church, Rico, CO 81332.
THE BIG TREE AT GEORGE AND CHARLOTTE’S HOUSE by Tomm Stanley. Golden, CO: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007. 30 pages. Paperback; $11.95. ISBN: 9780473116118.
Stannard, Russell. Science and the Renewal of Belief, 57:3, 251, S 2005. (Mark A. Strand)
GOD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Russell Stannard, ed. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000. 194 pages. Paperback; $12.95. ISBN: 1890151394.
Stark, Rodney. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, 58:2, 156, J 2006. (Dennis W. Cheek)
Stenmark,
Mikael How
to Relate Science and Religion:
A Multidimensiona
———.
How to Relate Science and Religion: A Multidimensiona
CAN GOD INTERVENE? How Religion Explains Natural Disasters by Gary Stern. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. x + 229 pages. Paperback; $39.95. ISBN: 0275989585.
Brad Stetson
and Joseph G. Conti, The Truth about Tolerance: Pluralism,
Diversity and the
Culture Wars, 250 S 2006
GOD, THE FAILED HYPOTHESIS: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Strnger. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. 287 pages. Hardcover; $28.00. ISBN13: 9781591024811.
Strobel, Lee. The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, 57:3, 249, S 2005. (J. David Holland)
WHAT
ABOUT SCIENCE AND RELIGION? A Study of Faith and Reason (Faith
questions) by Paul Stroble. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2007. 112
pages. Paperback; $9.50. ISBN: 0687641624.
THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind. New York: Little Brown, 2006. 1380 pages, glossary, index. Hardcover; $24.95. ISBN: 0316155799.
THEISTIC EVOLUTION: Did God Create through Evolution? by Mark W. Swarbrick. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2006. 254 pages. Paperback; $15.95. ISBN: 0741424142.
BEYOND PARADISE: Technology and the Kingdom of God by Jack Clayton Swearengen. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2007. 312 pages, bibliography, index. Paperback; $40.00. ISBN: 1597528420.
Swenson, Kristin M. Living Through Pain: Psalms and the Search for Wholeness, 58:1, 81, M 2006. (Richard Ruble)
Taylor, Bron R., ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, 58:1, 75, M 2006. (Richard Ruble)
HEALTH AND HUMAN FLOURISHING: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology by Carol R. Taylor and Roberto Dell’oro, eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 284 pages. Paperback; $29.95. ISBN: 1589010795.
Templeton, Jr., John M. Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving, 57:1, 71, M 2005. (Richard Ruble)
COSMIC IMPRESSIONS by Walter Thirring. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2007. 163 pages. Paperback; $19.95. ISBN: 9781599471150
GOD IN THE CLASSROOM: Religion and America’s Public Schools by R. Murray Thomas. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007. 285 pages, index. Hardcover; $49.95. ISBN: 0275991415.
RELIGION
IN SCHOOLS: Controversies around the World by R. Murray Thomas.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. 234 page, bibliography, index. Hardcover;
$49.95. ISBN: 0275990613.
Thompson,
James Allen. Physics of Genesis, 57:1, 68, M 2005.
(Joan Nienhuis)
Thuan, Trinh Xuan. Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, 58:2, 157, J 2006. (Fraser F. Fleming)
THE PHYSICS OF CHRISTIANITY by Frank J. Tipler. New York: Doubleday, 2007. 336 pages, index. Hardcover; $27.50. ISBN: 0385514247.
ALL THINGS IN THE BIBLE: An Encyclopedia of the Biblical World by Nancy M. Tischler. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 2 volumes. Hardcover; $149.95. ISBN: 0313330824. Reviewed by Richard Ruble, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761.
Towne, Margaret Gray. Honest to Genesis: A Biblical and Scientific Challenge to Creationism, 57:2, 155, J 2005. (KNP Mickleson)
Towne, Margaret Gray. Honest to Genesis: A Biblical and Scientific Challenge to Creationism, 57:2, 155, J 2005. (Terry Bartholomew)
Tucker, Ruth A. God Talk: Cautions for Those Who Hear God’s Voice, 58:2, 159, J 2006. (Richard Ruble)
ALIEN WORLDS: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact by Diana G. Tumminia, ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 305 pages, appendixes, references, index. Paperback; $34.95. ISBN: 9780815608585.
ALONE IN THE WORLD? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 365 pages, bibliography and index, 15 color plates. Hardcover; $40.00. ISBN: 0802832466.van Inwagen, Peter, ed. Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, 57:2, 158, J 2005. (Richard Ruble)
GETTING THE GOSPEL RIGHT: Assessing the Reformation and New Perspectives on Paul by Cornelis P. Venema. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2006. 100 pages. Paperback; $6.00. ISBN: 085151927X.
SCIENCE, RELIGION AND THE MEANING OF LIFE by Mark Vernon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 193 pages, index. Hardcover; $35.00. ISBN: 023001341
Vining, Joseph. The Song Sparrow and the Child: Claims of Science and Humanity, 57:2, 164, J 2005. (David M. Condron)
IN SEARCH OF THE GENESIS WORLD by Erich A. Von Fange. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2006. 362 pages. Paperback; $19.99. ISBN: 9780758611000.
Wallace, Stan W., ed. Does God Exist? The Craig-Flew Debate, 57:2, 157, J 2005. (Paul Copan)
FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN by Brent Waters. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 166 pages. Paperback; $29.95. ISBN: 0754639150. Reviewed by Adam Drozdek, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282.
THE PERSON OF THE MILLENNIUM by Manfred Weidhorn. New York: iUniverse, 2005. 161 pages. Paperback; $15.95. ISBN: 0595368778.
Weightman, Gavin. Signor Marconi’s Magic Box, 57:2, 153, J 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
HOW SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT RELIGION? Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities by James Boyd White, ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 328 pages. Paperback; $40.00. ISBN: 0268044074.
White, James R. Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible’s Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity, 57:2, 160, J 2005. (J. W. Haas, Jr.)
Whorton,
Mark S. Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science, and the Age of
the Earth,
58:2, 157, J 2006. (Steven Schimmrich)
PERIL IN PARADISE:
Theology, Science, and
the Age of the Earth by Mark S. Whorton.
Waynesboro, GA: Authentic Media, 2005. 233 pages. Paperback; $16.99.
ISBN:
1932805230.
A
MEANINGFUL WORLD: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature
by Benjamin Wicker
and Jonathan Witt. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity
Press, 2006. 257 pages. Paperback; $18.00. ISBN: 0830827994.
Wilcox, David L. God and Evolution: A Faith-based Understanding, 57:3, 257, S 2005. (Michael A. Vincent)
Wilson,
Edward O. On Human Nature, 57:4, 333, D 2005. (J.
David Holland)
GENETICS
101 by Michael Windelspecht. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 195
pages, index. Hardcover; $49.95. ISBN: 9780313333811.
Woerlee, Gerald. Mortal Minds: A Biology of the Soul and the Dying Experience, 58:2, 159, J 2006. (Louise M. Freeman)
Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview, 244 S 2006
Wolterstorff; Nicholas, ed. Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education, 57:2, 161, J 2005. (H. Newton Malony)
DARWIN STRIKES BACK: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design by Thomas Woodward. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006. 223 pages, index. Paperback; $14.99. ISBN: 0801065631.
Wright, Ronald. A Short History of Progress, 57:4, 332, D 2005. (John W. Burgeson)
BEYOND RACIAL GRIDLOCK: Embracing Mutual Responsibility by George Yancey. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006. 197 pages. Paperback; $15.00. ISBN: 0830833765.
JOHN CALVIN AND THE NATURAL WORLD by Davis A. Young. Lantham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. 250 pages. Paperback; $35.00. ISBN: 0761837132.