Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides a concise introduction to Foster's life and thought, by means of a biographical essay and a complete bibliography of Foster's published work. It contains unabridged reprints of the seven Foster articles (including the classic "Mind" trio) which are most concerned with the relations between religion and science.;In addition, it contains a number of responses to Foster by contemporary scholars representing a wide range of academic disciplines and theological persuasions. Stanley Jaki, Francis Oakley and others have contributed lively critiques and further theoretical explorations, stimulated by Foster, concerning nature, creation, science, Christianity, and modernity.;This volume aims to provide a contribution to the areas of theology, philosophy, and intellectual history, especially regarding the concepts of "creation" and "nature", two notions which have become increasingly important to serious philosophical and religious discourse about the human situation.
