Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism?: Images and Models in Science and Religion

Preface.- Introduction (Michael Fuller and Anne Runehov).- Part 1: Philosophical and methodological perspectives.- Chapter 1. Unavoidable pluralism in theology and transitory pluralism in science? Mapping the diversity (Lluis Oviedo).- Chapter 2. Image, Metaphor, and Understanding in Science and Theology (Andrew Pinsent).- Chapter 3. Science and religion complement each other, not compete with one another (Rana Dajani).- Chapter 4. The Role of Images in the Social Construction of (Un-)Availability: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Illustrations (Silke Gker).- Chapter 5. Telling Stories in the Pluriverse: Decolonial Options for Creative Pluralism (Lisa L. Stenmark).- Chapter 6. On the Importance of Reaching a 'Maturation Point' Before Science and Religion can Interact (Emily Qureshi-Hurst).- Part 2: Scientific perspectives.- Chapter 7. The holism of the new physics, and its form of opening to the modern sense of the religious (Javier Monserrat).- Chapter 8. Shifts in the Scientific Mind: Mapping Einstein's views on imagination (Eduardo Gutierrez Gonzales).- Chapter 9. Models, Muddles, and Metaphors of the Transcendent (Alfred Kracher).- Chapter 10. On the Hard Problem of Consciousness: How a naturalist (representational) epistemological understanding can be easily harmonized with developments in neuroscience, and post-modern critique (Luis Amaral).- Chapter 11. Imagining the Infinite: Transcendent Models as a Fundamental Nexus between Science and Religion (Buki Fatona).- Chapter 12. The Selective Awareness Experiment: An Argument for Causal Pluralism (Bruno Petrusic and Niels Henrik Gregersen).- Part 3: Religious perspectives.- Chapter 13. Models for intertwining God's story and the universe story (Ernst M. Conradie).- Chapter 14. Nescience: a contrast in the uses of models within science and theology (Michael Fuller).- Chapter 15. Christology, Psychology, and Participation: A Model for Relating Psychological and Theological Understandings of Humanity (James Thieke).- Chapter 16. Dynamic Systems Theory Meets Theological Anthropology: A Case Study on the Use of Scientific Models in Theological Inquiry (Janna Gonwa).- Chapter 17. Does pluralism itself need to be plural? (Philippe Gagnon).- Chapter 18. Images, metaphors, and models in the Quest for Sustainability: The overlapping geography of scientific and religious insights (Jaime Tatay).- Chapter 19. Towards a New Understanding of Embodiment: Alternative Models to the Western Mind-Body Relationship (Sara Lumbreras).- Index.