Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science & Religion

Brooke, John Hedley; Cantor, Geoffrey N.

ISBN 10: 0567086003 / ISBN 13: 9780567086006

Published by UNKNO, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science & Religion
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567086003
• ISBN 13: 9780567086006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1780912955.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47915803
• Signed: 6/8/2026 10:02:35 AM
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Synopsis

This book, first published in the U.K. by TandT Clark, expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that, in fact, neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless "essence"--and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such "essentialist" theses. Along the way, they repeatedly demolish the cliches so typical of popular histories of the science and religion debate, demonstrating the impossibility of reducing these debates to a single narrative, or of narrowing this relationship to a paradigm of conflict.

About the Author

John Brooke is at University of Lancaster. Geoffrey Cantor is at University of Leeds.