1) Livingstones "Situating Evangelical Responses to Evolution" in which he
continues his fascinating exploration of the geography of knowledge by
extending the 'spatial turn' from his previous work on Princeton and Belfast
to now also include Edinburgh.
2)Ted Davis' "Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster Thesis
Reconsidered" considers Rationalism and Voluntarism in the 17th century. As
usual, Ted's writing style is wonderfully lucid.
3) Jim Moore's "Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the Darwin Legend" explores
the persistence of evangelical 'urban legends' and critiques the naivete of
many evangelicals in their approach to Scripture as compared with their
approach to science. Whether a person agrees with the conclusions or not,
this chapter should be required reading for any evangelical scientists
There's lots of good stuff in this book - check it out!
On another topic, there is a thought provoking article available at the AAAS
site on the relation of science and religion
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/dbsr/EVOLUT/JOHNSON.htm
"Does God Play Dice? Divine Providence and Chance" by Elizabeth A. Johnson
discusses the issues of the title from a Thomist viewpoint. Much of it
meshes well with some of the ideas Howard Van Till and George Murphy have
discussed, but the richness of Thomist terminology allows the ideas to be
explored to a depth that is really thought provoking. There's plenty here
for the non-Thomist to chew on.
Happy Summer Reading!
Karl
cmekve@aol.com