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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.55
EAN: 9780664227531
ISBN: 0664227538
Label: Westminster John Knox Press
Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: May 03, 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Studio: Westminster John Knox Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In this introduction to religion and science, William Chalker outlines the nature of knowledge involved in claims about science and about religion and delineates a compatible relationship between these two fields of understanding. According to Chalker, both science and theology have their proper realms. While science and theology are different in several crucial respects, they are not incompatible. Science, he explains, is a human intellectual activity whose aim is to produce knowledge claims that will maximize utility. Theology, in contrast, is a human intellectual activity whose aim is to produce knowledge claims about ultimate purpose. The two areas of knowledge are grounded in two very basic and very different kinds of human needs. Through explaining the differences in the nature of truth claims in science and theology, Chalker hopes to dissolve the seemingly intractable conflict between scientific and theological ways of thinking. Written accessibly and engagingly, Science and Faith will be welcomed both by the general reader and by students in undergraduate and seminary classes.




Rating: - Worth a read
William Chalker's Science and Faith is the most profound treatment of this subject--the meaning and relationship of science and religion--in several decades. On the other hand, the book is so well written it is anything but a labor to read--another plus. The intellectual history of the world can be seen, in large part, as recurring disagreements over the "primacy" of either science or religion in revealing the "true" nature of the world we live in. What Dr. Chalker has accomplished with his insightful ... Read More

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Rating: - Explains Layman's Misconceptions About Science and Religion
In 1977, I took a religion course from the author called "Introduction to Biblical Literature". Since I was attending a Presbyterian-supported college, religion was a graduation requirement. Jaded by the stereotypical (fundamentalist) view of religion, I expected to be bored and annoyed. Instead, I was enlightened. It finally all made sense to me. Over the years, Dr. Chalker's words and wisdom stood me in good stead.

Some 30 years later, I discovered that he had written this book. A lot of ... Read More

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Rating: - An interesting rubric
This book attempts to address the dichotomy between truth-claims of science and faith by establishing some ground rules (what he calls "rubrics"):

1. In our analyses, we do not describe reality as it actually is, but only as we "experience" it (because all we know has come to us through our personal experience (whatever medium of learning) and so we can only know about the "putative" reality we describe/construct from our experiences.

2. Science is a paradigm operating from the ... Read More

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