A Science and Religion Primer
Heather Looy is professor of psychology at The King’s University College in Alberta, Canada.
This book is an excellent resource for students and those who have a beginning interest in the intersection of science and religion. The brief text can be carried to meetings, lectures, and conferences as a valuable resource on many unfamiliar terms. The bibliographies offer a great starting point for those who wish to fill their libraries with material on the discussion. This book is indeed well entitled as A Science and Religion Primer. The absence of pneumatological focus can be substituted with another text, particularly the excellent collection by James K. A. Smith and Amos Yong (eds.), Science and the Spirit: Pentecostal Engagements (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010). The growing field in the science and religion dialogue serves as witness that Pentecostals cannot afford to remain distant observers. The way ahead will likely lead Pentecostals who work in the sciences toward dialogue with religion rather than away from the concerns of faith. This direction does not suggest, however, that religion provides answers to the questions of the scientist. Rather, the complementarity of both disciplines points to the influence each methodology has on the other for the sake of a joint pursuit of knowledge and truth. Campbell and Looy have offered a step in that direction.
Reviewed by Wolfgang Vondey
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Category: In Depth, Spring 2010
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