Commissioned longer critical review of Ian Barbour's Religion in an age of science; metaphysics in an era of history
Date
1992
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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Joint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher
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Abstract
Ian Barbour's Religion in an Age of Science is a welcome systematic, theoretical overview of the relations between science and religion, Gifford lectures culminating his long career with a balanced and insightful appraisal. The hallmarks are critical realism, holism, and process thought. Barbour makes more investment in process philosophy than in his previous works. This invites further inquiry about the adequacy of a highly general process metaphysics in dealing with our particular, deeply historical world.
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This is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.
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Barbour, Ian
historicity
law and narrative
metaphysics
the nomothetic and the idiographic
panexperientialism
process philosophy
process theology