Overview: A long-awaited major statement by perminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, this book illuminates one of our society's biggest debates-the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist-looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific study of religion-and he considers claim by Daniel Dennett, Ric…
Outline: With this book, the author challenged long-standing linera notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas do not arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation, but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of "normal science," as he cal…
Outline: The Pentecostal Manifestos series aims to speak for and to a rising, outward-looking generation of Pentecostal scholarship. Written by both established and newly emerging scholars, the various "manifestos" volumes are to be creative statements, marked by rigorous theological scholarship, reflecting a distinctly Pentecostal engagement with wider themes and concerns in Christian thought…
Outline: "Atheism deserves better than the new atheists," states Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, "whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it; quoting texts without contexts; taking exceptions as the rule; confusing folk belief with reflective theology; abusing, ridiculing, and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity. R…
Outline: One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In this book renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga expand upon the arguments that they presented in an exciting live debate held at the 2009 American Philosophical Association Central Division conference. An enlightening discussion …
Outline: What might be described as a Pentecostal worldview has become a powerful cultural phenomenon, but it is often at odds with modernity and globalization. This book confronts questions of spirituality in the face of contemporary science. The essays in this volume illustrate how Pentecostalism can usefully engage with technology and scientific discovery and consider what might be distin…
Outline: Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from creation. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith. Here are stories from a communit…
Outline: The relationship between science and religion (SR) has often been portrayed as combative. However, the interface of the two discipline is complex and nuanced, and they have much to learn from each other. This book welcomes readers to the SR dialogue. This helpful introductory work is simultaneously an encyclopedia, an annotated bibliography, and a survey. The book's stalwart adviso…
Overview: This book originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, the author demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of m…
Overview: This book research methods text is updated and streamlined by Johnny Saldana, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. This new edition presents the fundamentals of research design and data management, followed by five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining and predicting. Several data displays strategies from previous editions are …
Overview: What role do religious beliefs play in the construction of scientific theories and how do religion and science interact? The first volume of this book explores these and other questions and addresses the specific roles of metaphysical and religious beliefs in explanation and theory construction in the natural scienes. The contributors survey modes of interaction between religion and…
Overview: The last decade saw the arrival of a new player in the creation/evolution debate - the intelligent design creationism (IDC) movement, whose strategy is to act as "the wedge" to overturn Darwinism and scientific naturalism. This anthology of writings by prominent creationists and their critics focuses on what is novel about the new movement. It serves as a companion to the author's …
Overview: Scholar of science and theology Vern Poythress examines which of the contemporary interpretations of Genesis are most consistent with scientific evidence and careful biblical interpretation. He presents the case for young-earth creationism, mature creation, the day-age theory, the analogical-day theory, and the framework hypothesis to see which of them stand up to scrutiny. Written …
Though translated from a French version (L'Iran des origines a l'Islam, Paris, I95 i), the original idea for such a book was implanted in the author's mind by Professor Mallowan. As the latter points out in his foreword, M. Ghirshman's incomparable knowledge of the land and people of Iran and his intimate association with most of the major excavations carried out in that country for the past th…