I will be keeping my copy close by when I’m writing." - Lee Strobel, Elizabeth and John Gibson chair of apologetics, Houston Baptist University "This is an invaluable resource that belongs in every Christian's library. "Every Christian studying science will want a copy within arm’s reach." - Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary
Fully cross-referenced, entries include references and recommendations for further reading. Learn about flesh-and-blood figures who have shaped the interaction of science and religion: Augustine, Aquinas, Bacon, Darwin, and Stephen Hawking are just the beginning. Multiple-view essays on controversial topics allow you to understand and compare differing Christian viewpoints. Essays from over 140 leading international scholars, including Francis Beckwith, Michael Behe, Darrell Bock, William Lane Craig, Hugh Ross, Craig Keener, Davis Young, John Walton, and many more. Over 450 entries that will help you think through some of today's most challenging scientific topics, including climate change, evolution, bioethics, and much more. You will find answers to your toughest questions about faith and science, from the existence of Adam and Eve to the age of the earth, evolution and string theory. In one volume, you get reliable summaries and critical analyses of over 450 relevant concepts, theories, terms, movements, individuals, and debates. How does Christian theology relate to scientific inquiry? What are the competing philosophies of science, and do they "work" with a Christian faith based on the Bible? No reference work has covered this terrain sufficiently-until now.įeaturing entries from over 140 international contributors, the Dictionary of Christianity and Science is a deeply-researched, peer-reviewed, fair-minded work that illuminates the intersection of science and Christian belief. This freedom from personal bias, in exhibiting the views of others, especially on topics rarely touched without calling out private opinion, inspires confidence in her statements, as well as respect for her judgment and Christian charity.The definitive reference work on science and Christian belief "It has the peculiar merit," he added, "of the strictest candor and impartiality and so completely has the author divested herself of all in lividual prepossessions, that it may be doubted whether from a single passage in the whole work her own religious sentiments can be inferred. #Religious dictionaries manual#
It received the notice of Jared Sparks in the North American Review he pronounced it the best manual of the kind he knew of. Adams acknowledged herself indebted to both these editions for some of the improvements in her fourth edition.
Thomas Williams, who likewise made alterations. Andrew Fuller also in another form by Mr. It was published in England with a preface and additions by Mr. In 1817, appeared A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, dedicated as before to John Adams. It was first published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1817. A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious DenominationsĪ Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations is a 19th-century comprehensive survey of world religions by the American author, Hannah Adams.
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