Publications by ISSR Fellows

Below is a list publications by ISSR members. You can search the list using the search box below.

Prof Alvin Plantinga

Professor of Pediatrics John Pohl

Pediatric Gastroenterology: A Color Handbook

CRC Press, 2014
Editors: John Pohl, Christopher Jolley, Daniel Gelfond

A Theology of the Microbiome: An Intersection of Divinity and the Microbial Life Within Us

SacraSage Press, 2025

Prof Robert Pollack

Ed: Love and its Obstacles, proceedings of the first annual Fetzer Institute Symposium,

2007, e-Book

Best Practice: Science to End Poverty,

Columbia University Press, 2006

The Theory and Practice of Biology,

Web textbook, 2006

The 1999 Schoff Memorial Lectures: The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Science,

Columbia University Press, 2000
Co-authors: Pollack, R., with frontispiece by Amy Pollack,

The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious shapes Modern Science,

Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Co-authors: Pollack R., with frontispiece by Amy Pollack,
www.kosmas.cz/hledani_vysledek.asp?autor=Robert Pollack

Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA,

Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Paperback edition 1995 + various translations. Czech Republic,
Co-authors: Pollack, R., with frontispiece by Amy Pollack,

Ed: Readings in Mammalian Cell Culture,

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1973. Revised First Edition, 1975. Second Edition, 1981.

Mr Michael Poole

User's Guide to Science and Belief

Lion Hudson, 2007. Published in USA as Exploring Science and Belief, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc

God, Humanity and the Cosmos: a Textbook in Science and Religion

T&T, 1999, 2003 (1st edn); 2005 (2nd edn)
Editors: Southgate, C. (1999, 2003, 2005) and Poole, M. (1999)

Beliefs and Values in Science Education

Open University Press, 1995

A Guide to Science and Belief

Lion Hudson, 1994 + various translations

Creation or Evolution - A False Antithesis?

Latimer House (Latimer Studies 23/24), 1987. With a chapter by G.J.Wenham

A Guide to Science and Belief

Lion Publishing, 1990

God Talk: Science Talk — A Teacher’s Guide to Science & Belief

Lion Publishing, 1997
Co-authors: Adrian Brown and Sue Hookway

Teaching about Science and Religion: opportunities within Science in the National Curriculum

Culham College Institute, 1998

The ‘New’ Atheism: Ten Arguments that Don’t Hold Water?

Lion Hudson, 2009

‘Semiconductors’, ‘Electromagnetic Waves’, ‘Lasers’, Nuffield Advanced Science Sourcebook (Physical Sciences)

Penguin, 1974
Editors: B.E.Dawson

‘Teaching About Issues of Science and Religion’ in Priorities in Religious Education

Falmer Press, 1992
Editors: Watson, B

‘Science and Science Education: A Judeo-Christian Perspective’ in Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education

Kluwers Academic Publishers, 1998
Editors: Cobern, W.W.

‘Science and Education’ in God, Humanity and the Cosmos: a Textbook in Science and Religion

T & T Clark, 1999
Editors: Joint editor

‘Science and Education’ in God, Humanity and the Cosmos: Second Edition Revised and Expanded as a Companion to the Science—Religion Debate

T & T Clark, 2005
Editors: C. Southgate

'The Scientific Enterprise and Teaching about Creation' in Teaching About Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism

Peter Lang, 2007
Editors: Jones, L. and Reiss, M. J.

‘Science and Education’ in God, Humanity and the Cosmos: Third Edition, A Textbook in Science and Religion, revised and updated

T & T Clark, 2011
Editors: C. Southgate

‘Spiritual education’ in Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Teaching

Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, 2011
Co-authors: Wright, A, & Brandom, A-M,
Editors: J. Dillon & M. Maguire

‘Challenges Faced by Faith-Based Schools with Special Reference to the Interplay between Science and Religion’ in International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools

Springer, 2014
Editors: J. D. Chapman, S. McNamara, M. J. Reiss, Y. Waghid

Science education and the interplay between science and religion
in School Science Review

1985
Volume: 67(239)
Pages: 252-261

Science-and-religion: A Challenge for Secondary Education
in British Journal of Religious Education

1990
Volume: 13(1)
Pages: 18-27

The Galileo Affair
in School Science Review

1990
Volume: 72(258)

Do we teach them wrong? Teaching young people about science and religion
in Explorations in Science and Theology, Templeton London Lectures

Royal Society of Arts, 1993
Pages: 39-53

A Critique of Aspects of the Philosophy and Theology of Richard Dawkins
in Science and Christian Belief

1994
Volume: 6(1)
Pages: 41-59

A Response to Dawkins & A Reply to Poole
in Science and Christian Belief

1995
Volume: 7(1)
Pages: 45-50 & 51-58

Canon Dr Eve Poole

Robot Souls

CRC Press, 1 August 2023
https://www.routledge.com/Robot-Souls-Programming-in-Humanity/Poole/p/book/9781032426624

Capitalism's Toxic Assumptions

Bloomsbury, 12 March 2015
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/capitalisms-toxic-assumptions-9781472916808/

Leadersmithing

Bloomsbury, 9 March 2017
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leadersmithing-9781472941237/

Buying God

SCM Press, 20 August 2018
https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334056744/buying-god

The Church on Capitalism

Palgrave, 27 October 2010
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230290761

Ethical Leadership

Palgrave, 8 December 2010
Co-authors: Carla Millar
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230299061

Prof Wilson Poon

"The Wound of Knowledge R. S. Thomas’ Cruciform Poetics of Science and Religion" in Science and Religion in Western Literature

Routledge, 2024
Editors: Michael Fuller
Pages: 94-109
https://www.routledge.com/Science-and-Religion-in-Western-Literature-Critical-and-Theological-Studies/Fuller/p/book/9781032101644

Thomas: The Apostle of Scientists in "Science and Theology"
in Science and Theology

2017
Volume: 15
Pages: 203-213
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2017.1299377

Prof Stephen Post

Sir Ghillean Prance

Prof Joel R. Primack

The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos

Co-authors: Joel R.Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams,
http://viewfromthecenter.com

Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst

God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime

Cambridge University Press, October 2022
Volume: Problems of God
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/god-salvation-and-the-problem-of-spacetime/3256416169B3737BF33DC3CA1BD3B046

Salvation in the Block Universe: Time, Tillich, and Transformation

Cambridge University Press, 2024
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/salvation-in-the-block-universe/4A92AE269AA9585E211111CF8AE8F3A6

Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation

Cascade, 2025
https://wipfandstock.com/9781666785654/decoding-the-cosmos/

The Many Worries of Many Worlds
in Zygon

Wiley, February 2023
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12868

Is Simplicity that Simple? An Assessment of Richard Swinburne’s Argument from Cosmic Fine-Tuning
in Theology and Science

Taylor & Francis, October 2021
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2021.1982250

Does God Act in the Quantum World?
in Theology and Science

Taylor & Francis, December 2022
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2155914#:~:text=Rather%2C%20for%20Russell%2C%20God%20acts,special%20events%20in%20the%20world.

Quantum Mechanics, Time, and Theology: Indefinite Causal Order and a New Approach to Salvation
in Zygon

Wiley, July 2020
Co-authors: Anna Pearson
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12621#:~:text=Quantum%20mechanics%20has%20recently%20indicated,receive%20metaphysical%20or%20theological%20engagement.

Outstanding Issues with Robert Russell's NIODA Concerning Quantum Biology and Theistic Evolution
in Zygon

Wiley,
Co-authors: Christopher T. Bennett
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12663

Anxiety, Alienation, and Estrangement in the Context of Social Media
in Religious Studies

Cambridge University Press, April 2021
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/abs/anxiety-alienation-and-estrangement-in-the-context-of-social-media/98F94B6FB9C85673367220FFD79CA8B9

Getting Tense about Relativity
in Synthese

Springer, February 2020
Co-authors: James Read
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-020-02560-z#:~:text=The%20relativity%20of%20simultaneity%20stands,least%20in%20some%20sense%2C%20subjective.

Can Sinners Really Change? Understanding Personal Salvation in the Block Universe
in Zygon

Wiley, May 2022
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zygo.12796

On the Importance of Reaching a ‘Maturation Point’ Before Science and Religion Can Interact
in Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism?

Springer, 2022
Editors: Fuller, M., Evers, D., Runehov, A.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-06277-3_6

Time and Tillich: Re-examining Salvation Through the Lens of Special Relativity
in Emerging Voices in Science and Theology

Routledge, 2022
Editors: Alister McGrath and Bethany Sollereder
https://www.routledge.com/Emerging-Voices-in-Science-and-Theology-Contributions-by-Young-Women/Sollereder-McGrath/p/book/9781032139579#:~:text=This%20volume%20engages%20with%20the,later%20stages%20of%20their%20careers.

Prof V.V. Raman

Truth and Tension in Science and Religion

Beech River Books, 2009

Famous Indian Scientists,

2005

Variety in Religion and Science,

2004

Tirukkural Book 1: Translation with Commentaries,

2001

Remembrances and Reminiscences: A la recherche du temps vécu,

2001

Glimpses of Ancient Science and Scientists,

2000

Reflections from Alien Shores,

1999

Scientific Perspectives,

1999

Variety in Science History,

1999

Balakanda as Literature & Cultural History,

1999

Nuggets from the Gita,

1998

Roots of Perceived Reality,

1996

Notes for a Study of Quantum Mechanics,

1995

Foundations of Scientific Thinking,

1994

Dr Russell Re Manning

New Varieties of Natural Theology

Oxford University Press, 2013

Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology

Oxford University Press, 2013

Philosophy of Religion: The Essentials

Hodder & Stoughton, 2012

Science and Religion in the Twenty First Century. The Boyle Lectures, 2004-2013

SCM Press, 2013
Co-authors: Michael Byrne

Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Theology at the End of Culture

Peeters Press, 2005

30-Second Religion

Ivy Press, 2011

30-Second Bible

Ivy Press, 2012

Prof Martin Rees HonFISSR

Dr. Josh Reeves

Revd Prof Michael Reiss HonFISSR

Teaching about Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism (edited volume)

Peter Lang, 2007
Co-authors: Eds: Jones, L. & Reiss, M.J.,

Dr. Fabien Revol

Revd Dr W. Mark Richardson

Catherine Rigby

Prof Jon H. Roberts

Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1859-1900,

University of Wisconsin, 1988; PB, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001,

The Sacred and the Secular University,

Princeton University Press, 2000
Co-authors: Jon H. Roberts and James Turner,

Dr Andrew Robinson

God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C.S. Peirce

Brill, 2010
http://www.brill.nl/god-and-world-signs

Traces of the Trinity: Signs, Sacraments and Sharing God's Life

James Clarke, 2014