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'''''Issues in Science and Religion''''' (1966) is a book by [[Ian Barbour]], originally published by [[Prentice Hall]]. A biography provided by the [[John Templeton Foundation]] and published by [[PBS]] online states this book "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of [[Relationship between science and religion|science and religion]]."<ref name=PBS1>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june99/barbour_bio.html |title=The PBS Online Newhour ~~~~ May 28, 1999 ~~~~ |accessdate=2008-06-30}}</ref> A review by [[physics]] professor John M. Bailey of [[Beloit College]] notes in his review of ''Issues'' that religion and science are "two of man's most basic activies [and] would seem to lie furthest apart and hence most difficult to reconcile." He adds that there are a large number of books that attempt to compare and contrast religion and science. In comparison to these other books, Bailey states that Barbour's book is "a valuable review of ideas in both science and theology." <ref> [[John M. Bailey (physicist)]], [[American Journal of Physics]], Volume 36, Issue 6, 1968, pages 562-563. </ref> Another reviewer, [[Eric Lionel Mascall]] states "To indulge in superlatives is usually unwise, but I am tempted to say that this is by far the most competent book on the subject of science and theology that has appeared in the last twenty-five years." Mascall further states "the range of reading that it shows is staggering", "its style is lucid and interesting," and "the judgements that its author expresses are penetrating and balanced."<ref> [[Eric Lionel Mascall|Mascall, E. L.]], Book Review, [[Journal of Theological Studies]], n.s.:18 (1967) p.542 </ref>

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'''''Issues in Science and Religion''''' (1966) is a book by [[Ian Barbour]], originally published by [[Prentice Hall]]. A biography provided by the [[John Templeton Foundation]] and published by [[PBS]] online states this book "has been credited with literally creating the contemporary field of [[Relationship between science and religion|science and religion]]."<ref name=PBS1>{{cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june99/barbour_bio.html |title=The PBS Online Newhour May 28, 1999 |accessdate=2008-06-30}}</ref> A review by [[physics]] professor John M. Bailey of [[Beloit College]] notes in his review of ''Issues'' that religion and science are "two of man's most basic activies [and] would seem to lie furthest apart and hence most difficult to reconcile." He adds that there are a large number of books that attempt to compare and contrast religion and science. In comparison to these other books, Bailey states that Barbour's book is "a valuable review of ideas in both science and theology." <ref>[[John M. Bailey (physicist)]], [[American Journal of Physics]], Volume 36, Issue 6, 1968, pages 562-563.</ref> Another reviewer, [[Eric Lionel Mascall]] states "To indulge in superlatives is usually unwise, but I am tempted to say that this is by far the most competent book on the subject of science and theology that has appeared in the last twenty-five years." Mascall further states "the range of reading that it shows is staggering", "its style is lucid and interesting," and "the judgements that its author expresses are penetrating and balanced."<ref>[[Eric Lionel Mascall|Mascall, E. L.]], Book Review, [[Journal of Theological Studies]], n.s.:18 (1967) p.542</ref>

==Contents==

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==Discussion of philosophy and theology==

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Barbour provides introductions to several schools of philosophy—[[positivism]], [[empiricism]], [[linguistic analysis]], [[existentialism]], [[process philosophy]], process theology, [[neo-orthodoxy]], and [[liberal theology|liberalism]]—in order to give the reader knowledge enough to understand how relations between science and religion look from these distinct viewpoints.<ref> ''Issues in Science and Religion'' (1966), page 115 </ref> Other related schools of thought discussed by Barbour include [[Determinism]], [[Idealism]], [[Metaphysics]], [[Naturalism]], [[Natural theology]], [[Critical realism]], [[Naive realism]], [[Reductionism]], and [[Roman Catholicism]].

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Barbour provides introductions to several schools of philosophy—[[positivism]], [[empiricism]], [[linguistic analysis]], [[existentialism]], [[process philosophy]], process theology, [[neo-orthodoxy]], and [[liberal theology|liberalism]]—in order to give the reader knowledge enough to understand how relations between science and religion look from these distinct viewpoints.<ref>''Issues in Science and Religion'' (1966), page 115</ref> Other related schools of thought discussed by Barbour include [[Determinism]], [[Idealism]], [[Metaphysics]], [[Naturalism]], [[Natural theology]], [[Critical realism]], [[Naive realism]], [[Reductionism]], and [[Roman Catholicism]].

==Discussion of science topics==

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==Quotes==

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In a section titled ''Man as Perfectible by Reason'' Barbour writes (pages ~~62-64~~) {{quote|The men of the Enlightenment were confident of ''the power of reason'' not only in science and in religion but in all human affairs.<ref> Here Barbour has a footnote to Ernst Cassier, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, [[Princeton University Press]], 1951. </ref> ... Science was to be the great liberator—not the enslaver of man as in recent novels (for example, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World). ... Far from being an age of skepticism, this was an age of great faith—in man and his capacities. Nature, God, and man were all approached in the same rationalistic spirit.}}

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In a section titled ''Man as Perfectible by Reason'' Barbour writes (pages 62–64) {{quote|The men of the Enlightenment were confident of ''the power of reason'' not only in science and in religion but in all human affairs.<ref>Here Barbour has a footnote to Ernst Cassier, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, [[Princeton University Press]], 1951.</ref> ... Science was to be the great liberator—not the enslaver of man as in recent novels (for example, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World). ... Far from being an age of skepticism, this was an age of great faith—in man and his capacities. Nature, God, and man were all approached in the same rationalistic spirit.}}

==References==

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==Further reading==

* Issues in Science and Religion ISBN 0334007372

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* Review: [[David Ray Griffin]], [[Zygon (journal)|Zygon]], volume 23, issue 1, March 1988, pages ~~57-81~~, [http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Biblio/Abstracts/Griffin%20Abstracts/Griffin,%20David%20Ray.%20On%20Ian%20Barbour%27s%20Issues%20in%20Science%20and%20Religion.html abstract]

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* Review: [[David Ray Griffin]], [[Zygon (journal)|Zygon]], volume 23, issue 1, March 1988, pages 57–81, [http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Biblio/Abstracts/Griffin%20Abstracts/Griffin,%20David%20Ray.%20On%20Ian%20Barbour%27s%20Issues%20in%20Science%20and%20Religion.html abstract]

:* [[Ian Barbour]], "A Respone to David Griffin" [[Zygon (journal)|Zygon]], volume 23, issue 1, March 1988, p. 83-88

* Review: G. D. Yarnold, [[The Journal of Religion]], Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1968, pages 181-189

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::<blockquote> The book can thus be seen as a compact [[encyclopedia]] in the philosophy of religion and science. It is a clear account of the people involved and the ideas they proposed.

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* History of science and religion critique: ''Science and Religion in the English Speaking World, 1600-1727 A Biliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature'', Richard S. Boorks & David K. Himrod, [[Scarecrow Press]], 2001, ISBN 0-8108-4011-1, p. 17

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* History of science and religion critique: ''Science and Religion in the English Speaking World, 1600-1727 A Biliographic Guide to the Secondary Literature'', Richard S. Boorks & David K. Himrod, [[Scarecrow Press]], 2001, ISBN 0-8108-4011-1, p. 17

::<blockquote> This is a [[presentist]] survey of topics related to the title. It oversimplifies intellectual history using a retrospective historiography smiliar to (and possibly based on) [[Franklin L. Baumer]]'s ''Religion and the Rise of Scepticism'' (1960), [[E.A. Burtt]]'s ''The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science'' (1925, revised 1931), [[John Herman Randall]], and the early [[Richard Westfall|Westfall]] [''Science and Religion in Seventeenth Century England, 1958, 2nd ed. 1973]. But Barbour provides a valuable typological scheme of five key issues by which to analyze the historical relations between science and religion and to compare historical eras. This scheme is (1) methods in science; (2) the character of nature; (3) methods in theology; (4) God and his relation to nature; and (5) man and his relation to nature. </blockquote>

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* Citation: [[Holmes Rolston III]], ''Science and Religion: A Critical Survey'' (Random House 1987, McGraw Hill, Harcourt Brace; new edition, Templeton Foundation Press, 2006), p.78 n.10

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* Citation: [[Holmes Rolston III]], ''Science and Religion: A Critical Survey'' (Random House 1987, McGraw Hill, Harcourt Brace; new edition, Templeton Foundation Press, 2006), p. 78 n.10

:: <blockquote> See [[Ian G. Barbour]], ''Issues in Science and Religion (New York: Harper and Row, 1971), pp. 298-305. Barbour is especially good on the philosophical and religioius implications of quantum mechanics and indeterminacy. </blockquote>

* Citation: [[John Hedley Brooke]], Bibliographic Essay (pages 348-403) in ''Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives'', 1991, [[Cambridge University Press]], ISBN 0-521-23961-3:

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