Paul Allen, Ph.D. (2001), is Dean, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Theology at St. Mark's College, Vancouver, Canada. He specializes in science-theology relations, theological anthropology and political theology. His works include: Ernan McMullin and Critical Realism in the Science-Theology Dialogue (2006), Theological Method (2012), and Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues (2023) as well as numerous book chapters and articles.Flavia Marcacci, Ph.D. (2005, 2016), is a Professor of History of Scientific Thought at the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican State). She has published monographs, edited books and many articles in international journals about the history of science and its interactions with theology. Among her books: Galileo Galilei. Una storia da osservare (2015), Cieli in contraddizione. Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo (2018).

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: How Scientific Theories Emerge in a Matrix of Philosophy and TheologyFlavia Marcacci and Paul AllenPart 1Early Modernity – 19th Century2 The Paradox of Foundation: Descartes’ Eternal Truths and the Evil GeniusSimone Guidi3 Franciscan Syncretistic Theology and Physics: The Science of Fortunato of Brescia (1701–1754)Paolo Capitanucci4 In lumbis Adami et Evae: Questioning the Generation of Humankind in the Early 18th CenturyLuca Tonetti5 Bolzano on God as the Ground of the Existence of the Actual InfiniteFábio Bertato6 From Thermodynamics to Theology through Philosophy: The Debate on the Second Principle in the Late Nineteenth CenturyStefano Bordoni7 Social Darwinism and Race: Christian Thought, Evolution and HistoriographyPaul AllenPart 2Twentieth Century8 Einstein, “Cosmic Religion,” and TheologyDon Howard9 The “Primeval Atom Hypothesis”: Where Did It Come From? What Is Its Status?Dominique Lambert10 Max Planck, Causality, and the Necessity of GodFlavia Marcacci and Gino Tarozzi11 The Mystery of Cosmos: Negative Issues of Scientific Holism in Quantum Mechanics and WittgensteinFausto Fraisopi12 Kurt Gödel and the Logical Existence of GodAndrea Vestrucci and Christoph Benzmüller13 John Wheeler, a Seeker in the Atomic AgeStefano Furlan and Rocco GaudenziIndex