Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on Their Relations

While theology and science are autonomous disciplines, neither of which has to accept its conclusions from the other, there are a number of regions in which they can make contact and in which important things about that contact can be said. Such is the thesis of this penetrating study by a distinguished theologian with a thorough grasp of modern scientific developments. The book sets out to show by example that the notion of a fundamental conflict between science and Christian theology is altogether baseless. In the past there have been mutual misunderstandings that have sometimes risen to the level of hostility; and in any epoch there are likely to be differerences in current thinking that are not immediately resoluble. But the author believes that today there are in fact more opportunities for fruitful discussion between scientists and theologians than there have been for centuries. From dust jacket.