Index

abductive reasoning

abortion

abstract objects

action

Adam and Eve

Adams, Fred

Adelard of Bath

Adorno, Theodor W.

afterlife

Agassiz, Louis

age of earth

Aizawa, Kenneth

akrasia

al-Baghdadi

Albertson, D.

al-Bitruji (Alpetragius)

Albright, Carol

Alcoff, Linda

Alexander, Denis

Allen, Diogenes

Altmann, Alexander

Ambrose

American Catholic Sociological Society

American Scientific Affiliation

Anaxagoras

Anaximander

angels

Annan, Kofi

Anselm

Answers in Genesis

anthropic principle see also fine-tuning

anthropology

apologetics

apophatic theology see theology: negative

apriori see truth: apriori

Aquinas, Thomas

Arendt, Hannah

arguments for the existence of God see God: arguments for

Aristarchus

Aristotelean physics

Aristotle

Arius

Armstrong, David

artificial intelligence

Asad, Talal

Aspect, Alain

Association for the Sociology of Religion

Astell, Mary

Athanasius

atheism

Atkins, Peter

Atran, Scott

Augustine

Augustinian science

authority

Ayala, Francisco

Azzouni, Jody

Bacon, Francis

Baggini, Julian

Baily, Mary Ann

Baker, Mark C.

Balaguer, Mark

bar Kepha, Moses

Barberini, Maffeo

Barbour, Ian

Barlow, Connie

Barr, James

Barr, Stephen M.

Barresi, John

Barrett, Justin L.

Barrow, John

Barth, Karl

Bartlett, Frederic

Basil of Caesarea

Baum, Gregory

Båve, Arvid

Bealer, George

Beauregard, Mario

Beckerman, A.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Behe, Michael

Behn, Aphra

Beilby, James

belief

Bell, Charles

Bell, John

Bellarmine, Robert

ben Sirah, Yeshua

Bénard convection

Benardete, J.

Benedict XIV, Pope

Berg, Christian

Berger, Peter

Bergson, Henri

Bering, Jesse M.

Berkeley, George

Berkhof, Hendrikus

Berry, Thomas

Bessel, Friedrich

Bible see also Genesis chapter

authority of

inerrancy

interpretation of

literalism

New Testament

Old Testament

big bang theory

biotechnology see also transhumanism

Birch, Charles

Bleier, Ruth

Bliss, William

Bochenski, Joseph M.

body, human

Bohm, David

Bohr, Niels

Boltzmann, Ludwig

Boltzmann brain

Bonaventure

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Borde, A.

Bose, Feler

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne

Boule, Marcellin

Bowler, Peter J.

Boyer, Pascal

Boyle, Robert

Bradley, James

Brahe, Tycho

brains

Brentano, Franz

Breuvery, Emmanuel de

Bridgewater Treatises

Broad, Jacqueline

Brooks, Arthur C.

Brooks, Rodney

Brown, Colin

Brown, Raymond

Brown, Warren S.

Brugger, Peter

Bruno, Giordano

Bryan, William Jennings

Buckland, William

Buckley, Michael

Bugg, George

Bultmann, Rudolf

Buridan, John

Butler, Samuel

Cairns, David

Calvin, John

Campanella, Tommaso

Campbell, R. J.

Cannell, Fenella

Cantor, Geoffrey

capitalism

Caputo, J. D.

Carroll, Sean

Carson, Rachel

Cartwright, Nancy

Castelli, Benedetto

Casteñeda, Hector

causation

Cavendish, Margaret

chain of being

Chalcedonian Definition

Chalmers, David

Chalmers, Thomas

Chamberlain, Thomas

Chambers, Robert

chance

Charlton, Walter

chess

Chihara, Charles

Christian Sociological Society

Christian theism

Christianity

nature of

and origin of science

rationality of

Christina, Grand Duchess

Churchill, John Ross

Churchland, Patricia

Churchland, Paul

Cicero

Clark, Andy

Clark, Graeme

Clarke, Peter

Clarke, Samuel

Clausius, Rudolf

Clayton, Philip

Cleaver, Gerald

Clement of Alexandria

cloning

Cobb, John

Code, Lorraine

cognitive faculties

cognitive science of religion

Cole-Turner, Ron

Collier, Andrew

Collingwood, R. G.

Collins, Francis

Collins, Robin

Colyer, Elmer M.

common descent see evolution: common descent

Comstock, Gary L.

Comte, Auguste

Conklin, Edwin Grant

consciousness

conservation laws

convergence see evolution: convergence

Conway, Anne

Conway Morris, Simon

Cooper, John W.

Copan, Paul

Cope, Edward Drinker

Copenhagen interpretation

Copernican Revolution

Copernicanism

Copernicus, Nicolaus

Corner, Mark

cosmic microwave background radiation

Cosmides, Leda

cosmological argument

cosmological constant

cosmology

Courtenay, William

Coyne, Jerry

Craig, William Lane

creation see also special creation

creation ex nihilo

Creation Museum

Creation Research Society

creationism see also old-earth creationism, young-earth creationism

Crick, Francis

critical realism

Dales, Richard C.

Daley, George

Damasio, Antonio

Damian, Peter

Dana, James Dwight

dark energy

dark matter

Darrow, Clarence

Darwin, Charles

Darwin, Erasmus

Darwinism

Davidson, Donald

Davies, Paul

Davis, Edward B.

Dawkins, Richard

Dawson, John W.

de Duve, Christian

De Morgan, Augustus

de Sitter solution

Deason, Gary

defects

deism

demarcation of science/religion

Dembski, William

Dennett, Daniel

Descartes, René

design see also intelligent design, purpose

determinism

DeVries, Paul

Diderot, Denis

dimensions

Diogenes

Dirac, Paul

discipleship

Disraeli, Benjamin

divine action

divine hiddeness

DNA

Dodd, C. H.

Donoghue, John

Doppelt, Gerald

Dowd, Michael

Draper, John William

Draper, Paul

Drummond, Henry

dualism

Duhem, Pierre

Duhemian science

Duns Scotus

Durkheim, Émile

Dyck, Arthur

Dyson, Freeman

Eccles, John C.

ecology

economics

ecotheology

Eddington, Arthur

Edwards, Denis

Egerton, Francis H.

Ehrenberg, A.

Einstein, Albert

Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen thought experiment

election

Ellegård, Alvar

Ellis, George

Ellul, Jacques

emergence

emotions

energy

Enlightenment

entropy

environment

epiphenomenalism

epistemology see knowledge, theory of

error

eschatology

essentialism

Evangelical Environmental Network

Everett, Hugh

Everett interpretation

evil

natural

problem of

evolution

common descent

convergence

fossil record

guided by God

human

morality and

predictability of

randomness

suffering see also evil: problem of

theistic

expanding universe

experience see also religious experience

explanation

personal

scientific

supernatural see also divine action

extended mind thesis

external world

extinction

extraterrestrials

eye

fact

fact–value dichotomy see also science: objective vs. value-laden

faith

Falk, Darrel L.

Fall, the

Falwell, Jerry

Fantoli, Annibale

Farina, J.

Farmer, Herbert H.

Feinberg, Todd E.

feminism see also women

Fermi, Enrico

Feynman, Richard

fictionalism

fideism

Field, Hartry

fine-tuning see also teleological argument

Finocchiaro, Maurice

Fishacre, Richard

Fisk, John

Flamsteed, John

Flohr, H.

flood, the

Flores, Fernando

fluctuation observers see also Boltzmann brain

Fodor, Jerry

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de

Forde, Gerhard

foreknowledge see also God: omniscience of

Foscarini, Paolo

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

fossil record see evolution: fossil record

Foster, John

Foster, M. B.

Foucault, Michel

Fourth Lateran Council

Francis of Marchia

free will

Frege, Gottlob

Frenkel-Brunswik, Else

Freud, Sigmund

Friedmann, Alexander

functionalism

fundamentalism

Gale, Richard

Galileo

Galileo’s trial

Ganssle, Gregory E.

Gassendi, Pierre

Gasser, Achilles Pirmin

general relativity

Genesis chapter

genetic engineering

genetic mutation

genetic testing

genetics

Giberson, Karl

Gifford Lectures

Gilligan, Carol

Gilson, Etienne

Ginet, Carl

Gisin, Nicolas

God

arguments for see also cosmological argument, fine-tuning, ontological argument, teleological argument

as cause

as explanation

concept of

freedom of

goodness of

immanence of

immutability of

infinite

knowledge of

nature of

omnipotence of

omniscience of see also foreknowledge

simplicity of

sovereignty of

sustaining power

transcendence of see also transcendence

God of the gaps

Goetz, Stewart

Goodenough, Ursula

Gosse, Philip

Gould, Stephen Jay

grace

Graham, Billy

Grand Unified Theory

Grant, Edward

Grassie, W.

gravity

Gray, Asa

Great Story

Greene, Brian

Greene, John C.

Greenfield, Susan

Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory XVI, Pope

Griffin, David Ray

Gross, David

Guglielmini, Giambattista

Gushee, David

Guth, Alan

Gutiérrez, Gustavo

Guyot, Arnold

Gwynne, Paul

Habitat for Humanity

Haeckel, Ernst

Haldane, J. J.

Ham, Ken

Hansell, G. R.

Hanson, N. R.

Harding, Sandra

Harnack, Adolf von

Harris, Sam

Harrison, Peter

Hart, D. B.

Hartle, James

Hartley, L. P.

Hartshorne, Charles

Hartsock, Nancy

Hasker, William

Hauerwas, Stanley

Haugeland, John

Haugen, Joel

Haught, John

Hawking, Stephen

Hebrew cosmology

Hegel, G. W. F.

Hehn, Johannes

Heidegger, Martin

Heisenberg, Werner

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Heller, M.

Hellman, Geoffrey

Henry, John

Herschel, J. F. W.

Herschel, William

Herzfeld, Noreen

Hippolytus

Hitchcock, Edward

Hitchens, Christopher

Hogarth, William

Hohenburg, Johannes Georg Herwart von

Holder, Rodney D.

Hood, Leroy

Hooke, Robert

Hoover, Herbert

Hooykaas, Reijer

Hornsby, Jennifer

Howard-Snyder, Daniel

Hubble, Edwin

human embryos

human nature see also imago dei, personhood

human significance

Humanson, Milton

Hume, David

Humphrey, Nicholas

Hurley, Susan

Husserl, Edmund

Huxley, Julian

Huxley, Thomas H.

Huyssteen van, Wentzel

Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

imago dei

immaterial substance see also soul

independence view see science and religion, ways of relating: independence thesis

index of prohibited books

induction

inerrancy see Bible: inerrancy

infinity

inflation

information

Inquisition

Institute for Creation Research

intelligent design

Irenaeus

irreducible complexity

Isaac the Syrian

Jacobs, Jonathan D.

Jaeger, Lydia

Jaki, Stanley

James of Edessa

James, William

Janicaud, D.

Jesus Christ

incarnation

resurrection

universal

Job of Edessa

John of Damascus

John Paul II, Pope

Johnson, Elizabeth

Jones, John E.

Kahle, Jane Butler

Kaiser, Christopher B.

Kalbindexue001m argument see cosmological argument

Kane, Robert

Kant, Immanuel

Kaplan, David

Keane, Webb

Keller, Evelyn Fox

Kellogg, Vernon

Kelvin, Lord

Kennedy, D. James

kenoticism

Kepler Johannes

Kilner, John F.

Kilwardby, Robert

Kim, Jaegwon

King, C.

Kingsley, Charles

Klay, Robin

Knapp, Steven

Knight, Christopher C.

knowledge, theory of

Koch, Christof

Koons, Robert C.

Koperski, Jeffrey

Koyré, Alexandre

Kraay, Klaas

Kuhn, Thomas S.

Küng, Hans

Küppers, Bernd-Olaf

Kurzweil, R.

La Mettrie, Julín Offray de

Lakoff, George

Lamark, Jean-Baptiste

Lambert, Karel

Lamoureux, Denis O.

Lampe, Geoffrey

Laplace, Pierre-Simon

Larmer, Robert

Larson, Edward J.

Latourelle, René

laws of motion

laws of nature

laws of physics

Laws, Curtis Lee

LeConte, Joseph

Leibniz, Gottfried

Lemaître, Georges

Leo XIII, Pope

Leslie, John

Levinson, Daniel J.

Lewis, C. S.

Lewis, David

Lewis, H. D.

liberation theology

libertarian freedom see free will

Libet, Benjamin

life, origin of

light

Linnaeus, Carolus

Linnebo, Øystein

Lipton, Peter

Livingstone, David

Loebner, Hugh

logos

Longino, Helen

Loury, Glenn

Lubbock, John

Lucas, Ernest

Lunn, John

Luther, Martin

Lyell, Charles

Lyon, David

M Theory see string theory

Macdonald, A. J.

MacKay, Donald

Mackie, J. L.

Macquarrie, John

Madell, Geoffrey

Magnus, Albert

Malcolm, Norman

Malley, Brian

Malony, H. Newton

Malthus, Thomas

Manson, Neil

many worlds interpretation see Everett interpretation

Maor, E.

Marion, Jean-Luc

Marsden, George

Marti, Gerardo

Martin, Raymond

Marx, Karl

Masham, Damaris

Mästlin, Michael

materialism see also physicalism

non-reductive

reductive

mathematics

Mathewes, Charles

Mathews, Shailer

matter

Maximus the Confessor

Maxwell, James Clerk

McCann, Hugh J.

McClintock, Barbara

McCloskey, Deidre N.

McCosh, James

McCullough, Donald

McFague, Sallie

McGrath, Alister

McLuhan, Marshall

McMullin, Ernan

Mead, George Herbert

Medawar, Peter

Meinong, Alexius

Meister, Chad

memory

Mendel, Gregor

Merchant, Carolyn

Merton, Robert

Mesopotamian cosmology

metaphysical naturalism see naturalism

methodological naturalism

Meyer, Stephen C.

Midgley, Mary

Milbank, John

Mill, John Stuart

Miller, Hugh

Miller, Samuel

Miller, Stanley

Milton, John

mind

Minsky, Marvin

miracles

Mitchell, C. Ben

Mivart, George Jackson

Mohler, Albert Jr.

Moltmann, Jürgen

monism

Montaigne de, Michael

Mooney, C.

Moore, A. W.

Moore, Aubrey

Moore, James R.

morality

More, Henry

Moreland, J. P.

Morgan, Sandra

Morris, Henry M.

Morris, John D.

Moser, Paul K.

Müller, A. M. Klaus

multiverse

Mumford, Stephen

Murphy, Nancey

Murray, Michael

Murray, Robert

Murray, Thomas

Muslims

mutations see genetic mutation

Nagel, Thomas

Napoleon

narrative theology see theology: narrative

natural religion

natural sciences

natural selection

natural theology

naturalism

nature

autonomy of

comprehensibility of

control/conquest of

theology of

Needham, Joseph

negative theology see theology: negative

Nelson, Dean

Nelson, Lynn Hankinson

Nelson, Robert H.

neo-Darwinism

Nernst, Walther

Nesteruk, Alexei V.

neuroscience

Newell, Allen

Newton, Isaac

Newtonian physics

Nicene Creed

Nicolis

Niebuhr, H. Richard

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Nietzsche, Friedrich

non-overlapping magisteria see science and religion, ways of relating: independence view

Northcott, Michael

Novak, Michael

Numbers, Ronald L.

Núñez, Rafael

Oakley, Francis

objective truth see truth: absolute

objectivity

practical

Occam, William of

O’Collins, Gerald

O’Connor, Timothy

old-earth creationism

O’Leary, Denyse

Olivi, Peter John

Oman, John

ontological argument

ontology

Oparin, Alexander I.

Oppy, Graham

Origen

origin of life see life, origin of

original sin see Fall, the

Orr, James

Owen, Richard

Pace, Ernest James

Padgett, Alan G.

Page, Don N.

pair creation

Paley, William

panentheism

Pannenberg, Wolfhart

pantheism

Partee, Charles

Paul the Apostle

Peacocke, Arthur

Peat, David

Pember, G. H.

Pennock, Robert T.

Penrose, Roger

Penzias, Arno

Perkins, Phem

Perkins, Richard

Perry, John

personal explanation see explanation: personal

personal identity

personhood see also human nature

Peters, R. S.

Peters, Ted

Peterson, James C.

Philo

philosophy

philosophy of science

Philponus, John

physicalism see also materialism

Pike, Nelson

Pinker, Stephen

Plank time

Plantinga, Alvin

Plato

Platonism

Plotinus

Podolsky, Boris

Polanyi, Michael

Polkinghorne, John

Pollard, William

Popper, Karl

Porterfield, Amanda

postmodernism

Potter, Elizabeth

Powell, Baden

prayer

predestination see election

Price, George McCready

Prigogine, Ilya

probability

process theology

properties, mental

properties, physical

Protestant Reformation

Provine, William

Pruss, Alexander

Pseudo-Dionysius

psychology

Pupin, Michael

purpose see also design

Putnam, Hilary

Pythagoreans

quantifiers

quantum electrodynamics

quantum field theory

quantum gravity

quantum theory

Quastler, Henry

Quine, W. V. O.

Rachels, James

Rahner, Karl

Ramm, Bernard

Randi, James

Raphael

rationality

Rawls, John

Ray, John

realism see also critical realism

reason

Rees, Martin

reference

Reid, Thomas

relativism see also truth: absolute

religion, natural see natural religion

religion, nature of see also Christianity

religious belief, origin of

religious experience

resurrection see also Jesus Christ: resurrection

revelation

two books theory

Richardson, Alan

Ricoeur, Paul

Riley, William Bell

Rimmer, Harry

Riviere, Joan

RNA

robots

Rolston, Holmes

Rosen, Nathan

Routley, Richard

Rowlands, Mark

Ruether, Rosemary Radford

Ruse, Michael

Russell, Bertrand

Russell, Robert John

sacraments

Salam, Abdus

Salmon, James F.

salvation

Sanford, R. Nevitt

Santayana, George

Saunders, Nicholas

Scanlon, Michael J.

Schiebinger, Londa

Schloss, Jeffrey P.

Schmitz-Moormann K.

Schneiders, Sandra

Scholz, Heinrich

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schrödinger’s equation

Schrödinger’s cat

Schwartz, Regina M.

science

goal or purpose of

limits of

objective vs. value-laden

origin of

as social practice

success of

science and religion, ways of relating

conflict thesis

harmony thesis (concord or dialog)

independence thesis

integration

scientific explanation see explanation: scientific

scientific method

scientism

Scofield, Charles I.

Scopes, John

“Monkey Trial” of

scripture see Bible

Sears, Paul

Sebond, Raymond

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Sedgwick, Adam

self-consciousness

Sellars, Wilfrid

semantics

sense perception

Shakespeare, William

Shannon, Claude

Shaw, Bernard

Sideris, Lisa

Silliman, Benjamin

Simon, Herbert

simplicity

Simpson, George Gaylord

Singer

skeptical theism

skepticism

Skinner, B. F.

Slone, Jason

Sloterdijk, Peter

Smart, J. J. C.

Smedes, Taede

Smith, Adam

Smith, J. Alfred

Smith, Quentin

sociology

solipsism

Soskice, Janet Martin

soul see also mind

space see also spacetime

spacetime

Spar, Debora

special creation

species

Spencer, Herbert

Sperber, Dan

Sperry, Roger

Spina, Bartolomeo

Spinoza, Baruch

Spykman, Gordon

Stanford, R. Nevitt

Stassen, Glenn

Steiner, Mark

Steinhardt, John

Steinke, Johannes Maria

stem cells

Stenger, Victor

Stenmark, Mikael

Stewart, Lyman

Stewart, Milton

Stout, Jeffrey

Stove, David

Strachey, James

string theory

Strong, Augustus Hopkins

Stump, Eleonore

Suchocki, Marjorie

supernatural explanation see explanation: supernatural

Sweeney, L.

Swimme, Brian

Swinburne, Richard

Tacquet, Andreas

Taliaferro, Charles

Tallis, Raymond

Tanner, Kathryn

Taylor, Bron

Taylor, Charles

Taylor, Richard

technology

Tegmark, Max

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

Teilhard-Chambon, Marguerite

teleological argument see also fine-tuning

telescope

Teller, Edward

Temple, Frederick

Templeton Prize

Tennant, F. R.

Thacker, Justin

theism (in general)

theistic evolution see evolution: theistic

theology

theology, narrative

theology, negative

theory choice, criteria for

Tillich, Paul

time see also spacetime

Tipler, Frank

Tocqueville de, Alexis

Tolman, Richard

Tolosani, Giovanni Maria

Tönnies, Ferdinand

Tooby, John

top-down causation

Torrance, John

Torrance, Thomas F.

Torrey, Reuben A.

tradition

transcendence

transhumanism

Trinity

Trumbull, Charles G.

trust

truth

absolute

apriori

Tuana, Nancy

Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Turing test

Turing, Alan

Turok, Neil

two-slit experiment

Tyndall, John

Unger, Peter

United Nations

universals

Urban VIII, Pope

vacuum energy

value

van Fraassen, Bas

Van Till, Howard J.

Varacalli, Joseph

Vatican I

Vatican II

Vaucanson, Jacques de

Vilenkin, Alexander

virtues

volitions

Voltaire

von Rad, Gerhard

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Warfield, Benjamin B.

Waters, Brent

Watson, James

Watts, Fraser

wave-particle duality

Weber, Max

Webster, Charles

Wegter-McNelly, Kirk

Weinberg, Steven

Welker, Michael

Wesley, John

West, Traci

Westermann, Claus

Whately, Richard

Wheeler, John

Whewell, William

Whitcomb, John C.

White, Andrew Dickson

White, Ellen G.

White, Lynn

Whitehead, Alfred North

Whitehouse, Harvey

Wiener, N.

Wilberforce, Samuel

Wildman, Wesley

William of St. Thierry

Wilson, David Sloan

Wilson, Edward O.

Wilson, Robert W.

Winograd, Terry

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wolfson, Harry Austryn

women see also feminism

Wood, Bernard

Woodin, H.

Woods, Thomas E. Jr.

worldview

worship

Worthing, Mark William

Wright, George Frederick

Wright, N. T.

Wright, Robert

Yablo, Stephen

Yandell, Keith

young-earth creationism

Zeno

Zimmerman, Dean

Zizioulas, John D.