January 2023 Blog

Science, Religion … and Literature by The Revd Canon Dr Michael Fuller   How do people engage with issues around science and religious belief? Readers of this blog will of course be familiar with the contours which the ‘science and religion debate’ have followed since Ian Barbour’s groundbreaking work in the 1960s: the search for philosophical, methodological and historical ‘bridges’ which might link these two areas of human activity, the focus on ‘hot topics’ like divine action and the mind-body problem, and so on. More recent developments have seen the extension of the field of science and religion studies to acknowledge non-Western religious traditions – and to acknowledge also the richly varied nature of the scientific enterprise. Science and religion are now rightly thought of as complex