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The '''''Religion and science community''''' consists of those scholars who involve themselves with what has been called the 'religion-and-science dialogue' or the 'religion-and-science field.' <ref name=oxford> [http://books.google.com/books?id=eyrikGwJfCsC&pg=PA562&vq=religion-and-science&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U3SZhBFswPimoVN3cuk8l0ubKtJYw Religion-and-Science] [[Philip Hefner]], pages 562-576 in [http://books.google.com/books?id=eyrikGwJfCsC The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science] Philip Clayton(ed.), Zachary Simpson(associate-ed.)--Hardcover 2006, paperback July 2008-[[Oxford University Press]], 1023 pages </ref> <ref name=Zed>{{cite journal | quotes = no | last = Hefner | first = Philip | authorlink = Philip Hefner | year = 2008 | title = Editorial: Religion-and-Science, the Third Community | journal = [[Zygon]] | volume = 43 | issue = 1 | pages = 3-7 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00893.x }} </ref> The community belongs to neither the scientific nor the religious community, but is said to be a third community of interested and involved scientists, priests, clergymen, and theologians. <ref name=Zed/> [[Holmes Rolston III]] |
The '''''Religion and science community''''' consists of those scholars who involve themselves with what has been called the 'religion-and-science dialogue' or the 'religion-and-science field.' <ref name=oxford> [http://books.google.com/books?id=eyrikGwJfCsC&pg=PA562&vq=religion-and-science&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U3SZhBFswPimoVN3cuk8l0ubKtJYw Religion-and-Science] [[Philip Hefner]], pages 562-576 in [http://books.google.com/books?id=eyrikGwJfCsC The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science] Philip Clayton(ed.), Zachary Simpson(associate-ed.)--Hardcover 2006, paperback July 2008-[[Oxford University Press]], 1023 pages </ref> <ref name=Zed>{{cite journal | quotes = no | last = Hefner | first = Philip | authorlink = Philip Hefner | year = 2008 | title = Editorial: Religion-and-Science, the Third Community | journal = [[Zygon]] | volume = 43 | issue = 1 | pages = 3-7 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00893.x }} </ref> The community belongs to neither the scientific nor the religious community, but is said to be a third community of interested and involved scientists, priests, clergymen, and theologians. <ref name=Zed/> [[Holmes Rolston III]] has even gone so far as to call this community a no-man's land: |
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{{cquote|The interface between science and religion is, in a certain sense, a no-man's land. No specialized science is competent here, nor does classical theology or academic philosophy really own this territory. This is an interdisciplinary zone where inquirers come from many fields. But this is a land where we increasingly must live.|20px|20px|''Science and Religion'' (1987)<ref>''Science and Religion: A Critical Survey'', Homes Rolston III, (1987), page vi (preface), [[Temple University Press]], 1st ed., 358 pages, ISBN 0-8772-2437-4 </ref>}} |
{{cquote|The interface between science and religion is, in a certain sense, a no-man's land. No specialized science is competent here, nor does classical theology or academic philosophy really own this territory. This is an interdisciplinary zone where inquirers come from many fields. But this is a land where we increasingly must live.|20px|20px|''Science and Religion'' (1987)<ref>''Science and Religion: A Critical Survey'', Homes Rolston III, (1987), page vi (preface), [[Temple University Press]], 1st ed., 358 pages, ISBN 0-8772-2437-4 </ref>}} |
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The Religion and science community consists of those scholars who involve themselves with what has been called the 'religion-and-science dialogue' or the 'religion-and-science field.' [1] [2] The community belongs to neither the scientific nor the religious community, but is said to be a third community of interested and involved scientists, priests, clergymen, and theologians. [2] Holmes Rolston III has even gone so far as to call this community a no-man's land:
The interface between science and religion is, in a certain sense, a no-man's land. No specialized science is competent here, nor does classical theology or academic philosophy really own this territory. This is an interdisciplinary zone where inquirers come from many fields. But this is a land where we increasingly must live.
— Science and Religion (1987)[3]
Religious and scientific community comparisons
In comparisons with the religious community and the scientific community, the religion-and-science community has been found to have unique and special needs.
Comparison with the scientific community
Science requires a community to provide critical, peer group evaluation for members who are essentially writing research proposals. Science from the perspective of Academia requires criteria of success and advancement for its members that are at odds with or at least ambigious towards the basic needs of the religion-and-science community. Thus, the religion-and-science community is unlikely ever to become an academic field in the standard sense. [1] [2]
Comparison with the religious community
Like the science community, the religion-and-science community relies on an objective distance between its members and their object of study. Such a distanciation is considered a defect in the religious community. Nevertheless, the religion-and-science community requires spiritual discernment and a confessional stance, both of which can be developed and possibly maintained only within the religion community. [1] [2]
List of journals
Theology and Science
Theology
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science
American Journal of Physics
Modern Theology
Research centers
- Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
- Theology and Natural Sciences in Berkeley
- Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion in the University of Oxford
- Faraday Institute
- Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
Funders of research projects
Furhter reading
Harold K. Schilling, Science and Religion: An Interpretation of Two Communities, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962
See also
List of science and religion scholars
References
- ^ a b c Religion-and-Science Philip Hefner, pages 562-576 in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science Philip Clayton(ed.), Zachary Simpson(associate-ed.)--Hardcover 2006, paperback July 2008-Oxford University Press, 1023 pages
- ^ a b c d Hefner, Philip (2008). "Editorial: Religion-and-Science, the Third Community". Zygon. 43 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00893.x.
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ignored (help) - ^ Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, Homes Rolston III, (1987), page vi (preface), Temple University Press, 1st ed., 358 pages, ISBN 0-8772-2437-4
- ^ a b Science 15 August 1997: Vol. 277. no. 5328, pp. 890 - 893; "SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Science and God: A Warming Trend?" Gregg Easterbrook