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  • Science and Religion

    Some Historical Perspectives

    by John Hedley Brooke ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Science and Religion

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by David Marshall, Rowan Williams, John Hedley Brooke, Ahmad Dallal, Denis Alexander, Ellen F. Davis, Michael Welker, Mustansir Mir, Emmanuel Clapsis, Osman Bakar0, Marwa Elshakry1, Sherine Hamdy2, Celia Deane-Drummond3 ...
    Science and Religion is a record of the 2009 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened annually by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore how both faith traditions have approached the interface between science and religion and throw light on the ongoing challenges posed by this issue today. The volume includes a selection ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Religion

    Perspectives Across Disciplines

    by Claudia May, Channon Visscher, Omar Fakhri, Juan Hernández, Jr., Julie Hogan, Michael Holmes, Bernon Lee, Nathan Lindquist, Marcus Simmons0, John Hedley Brooke1, Sherryse L. Corrow2, Victor I. Ezigbo3, Angela M. Sabates4, Cara M. Wall-Scheffler5, Barrett Fisher II6, Alister E. McGrath7, Wayne L. Roosa8 ...
    Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Science and Religion Around the World

    Edited by John Hedley Brooke, Ronald L. Numbers ...
    The past quarter-century has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. But all too often the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Christian experience, with only passing reference to other traditions of both science and faith. At a time when religious ignorance and misunderstanding have lethal consequences, such provincialism must ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Rust

    The Longest War

    by Jonathan Waldman ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearRust has been called “the great destroyer,” the “pervasive menace,” and “the evil.” “This look at corrosion—its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it—is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing” (The New York Times).It is the hidden enemy, the one that challenges the ... Read more

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  • Creation

    Remarkable Evidence of God's Design

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  • Small Things Considered

    Why There Is No Perfect Design

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  • The Devil's Delusion

    Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions

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    Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

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  • The Idealist

    Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

    by Justin Peters ...
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  • Sikhism

    A Very Short Introduction

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