Creation And The World Of Science

Featuring Arthur Peacocke's 1978 Bampton Lectures, this is a key work in initiating the explosion of interest in the relation of religion and theology to the sciences. This reprint, with a special supplement bringing the references and the exposition of the author's views, is an accessible account of contemporary issues. A. R. Peacocke's Creation and the World of Science, an expanded version of his 1978 Bampton Lectures, was widely recognized as a key work on the relation of the sciences to religion, in general, and Christian theology in particular. It has long been seen as a formative contribution to the wide-ranging investigations which now, internationally, constitute this intensely active field. This new reprinting contains the original and influential text and also contains a new supplement containing key references to the literature of recent years as well as indicating the author's current position on central themes. It constitutes an essential reference and starting point for the contemporary discussion of key issues in the dialogue between the sciences and theology