Templeton Oxford Seminars - Summer 05 Readings
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Templeton Oxford Seminars - Summer 05 Readings
Updated 26 May 2005
Readings for John Barrow
Barrow, John. Theories of Everything: The Quest for UltimateExplanation. Clarendon Press,1991.
Constants of Nature - Footnotes
Barrow, John. The Constants of Nature.Vintage, 2003. Ch 8,10, and 13
Barrow,John. The Infinite Book : A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless andEndless. Pantheon, 2005. Ch 7,8.9.
Readings for Roy Baskar
The Possibility of Naturalism
Baskar, Roy. The Possibility of Naturalism. London: Routledge, 1998. Ch2
Baskar,Roy. From Science to Emancipation : Alienation and the Actuality ofEnlightenment. London: Sage. Ch 1
Readings for Jonathan Glover
Shield of Achilles
Bobbitt, Philip. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of
History. Penguin Books, 2003. 5-17.
The Breaking of Nations
Cooper, Robert. The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in theTwenty-first
Century. Atlantic Books, 2003. Part One, Chapter3, 55-80
Readings for Anna-Liza Kozma
Soskice, JanetMartin. "Metaphor and ReligiousLanguage." Clarendon Press: Oxford. Ch 8
Readings for Randy Maddox
18th Century Evangelical Responses toScience
Haas, John W. Jr. "Eighteenth EvangelicalResponses to Science: John Wesley's EnduringLegacy." Science and Christian Belief 6 (1994):83-102.
Livingstone, David N. "Evolution andEschatology." Themelios 22 (October): 26-36.
Creation, Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion
Numbers, Ronald L. "Creation,Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion: Holiness and PentecostalResponses to Darwinism." Darwinism Comes to America. Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press. 110-135
Readings for Jeanne McCauley
Advances in the Conceptualization
Hill, Peter C. and Pargament, Kenneth I."Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurementof Religion and Spirituality: Implications for Physical and MentalHealth." American Psychologist 58.1 (2003):64-74.
Readings for Alister McGrath
None
Readings for Stephen C. Meyers
The Origin of Biological Information
Meyer, S.C. "The Origin of Biological Informationand the Higher Taxonomic Categories." Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117.2(2004): 213-239. (The technical biology journal of theSmithsonian Institution).
Meyer, S.C. "DNA and the Origin of Life: Information,Specification and Explanation" Darwinism, Design and Public Education. Ed. John AngusCampbell and Stephen C. Meyer. Lansing: Michigan State UniversityPress, 2003: 223-285.
The Talented Mr. Wells
Padianj, Kevin and Gishlick, Alan D. "The Talented Mr. Wells." The Quarterly Review of Biology 77 1 (2002)
The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design Part1
The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design Part2
The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design Part3
Meyer, S.C."The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design: TheMethodological Equivalence of Naturalistic and Non-NaturalisticOrigins Theories," Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe. Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute. SanFrancisco: St. Ignatius Press, 2002. Vol 9, 151-211.
Return of the God Hypothesis Part 1
Return of the God Hypothesis Part 2
Meyer, S.C. (1999) "The Return of the God Hypothesis." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. SeptemberIssue, XI,1-38.
Readings for Ronald Numbers
Devils' Hells and Astronomers' Heavens
Schechner Genuth, Sara. "Devils' Hells and Astronomers'Heavens: Religion, Method, and popular Culture in Speculationsabout Life on Comets." The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections ofMathematics, Theology and natural Philosophy since the SeventeenthCentury: Essays in Honour of Erwin N. Hiebert, ed. MaryJo Nye, Joan L. Richards, and Roger H. Stuewer. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992. 3-26
Park, Katharine and Daston, Lorraine J. "UnnaturalConceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth andSeventeenth Century France and England" Past and Present 92
(1981): 20-54When Science and Christianity Meet. Ed. David C.Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. University Of Chicago,2003. 265-285, 319-326
"Science" "Religion": Constructing the Boundaries
Harrison,Peter. "Science" and"religion": Constructing theBoundaries."
The Journal of Religion 85/4 (2005): forthcoming.
Readings for Robert Roberts
Forgiveness and Coping
"Forgiveness Is an Emotion-Focused CopingStrategy That Can Reduce Health Risks and Promote HealthResilience: Theory, Review, and Hypotheses" byEverett L. Worthington, Jr. and Michael Scherer in Psychology and Health,January 2004 (electronic typescript).
Psychology in Recovery
"Psychology in Recovery" byPaul C. Vitz in First Things, March2005. "Psychotherapy and Christian Ministry" in Word and World 21(2001):42-50
A Christian Psychology View
Roberts, Robert. "A Christian PsychologyView." Psychology & Christianity: Four Views. Ed. EricJohnson and Stanton Jones. InterVarsity Press. 2000: 148-195;148-177.
Psychotherapy and Christian Ministry
Roberts, Robert. "Psychotherapy andChristian Ministry." Word and World 21(2001): 42-50.
Readings for Martin Rogers
Beliefs and Values in Science Education
Poole, Michael. Beliefs And Values In Science Education. Open University:Buckingham Press, 1998. 81-97.
The Science and Religion Dialogue
Ellis, George F. R. "The Science and Religion Dialogue:Where It Stands Today and Why It Matters" Metanexus Cosmos. 2005.02.04.
Readings for Eugenie C. Scott
Neocreationism
Scott, Eugenie C. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. Greenwood Press,2004. Ch 6
E. Coli at the No Free Lunchroom
Van Till, Howard J. E. Coli at the No Free Lunchroom: bacterial Flagella andDembski's Case for Intelligent Design Draft
Readings for Kevin Warwick
Cyborg Morals, Cyborg Values, CyborgEthics
Kevin Warwick Ethics and InformationTechnology 5: 131-137, 2003.
Cyborg morals, cyborg values, cyborg ethics
I Cyborg
Warwick, Kevin. I Cyborg. University of Illinois Press, 2004.




