New Maps for Old

Mary Gerhart is former Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. Allan Melvin Russell was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.

• Introduction: Mapping Science and Religion TogetherI. Metaphoric Process: Reforming Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science1. The Role of Metaphoric Process in the Development of Cognitive Complexity 2. Modeling Metaphoric Process3. Metaphoric Process as the Tectonic Reformation of Worlds of Meaning in Theology and Natural Science4. Sublimation of the Goddess in the Deitic Metaphor of MosesII. Bidisciplinary Dialogue and Text in Science and Religion5. The Genre Bidisciplinary Dialogue6. A Scientist and a Theologian See the World: Compromise of Synthesis? 7. A Generalized Conception of Text Applied to Both Scientific and Religious ObjectsIII. Relating Science and Religion8. Mathematics, Empirical Science and Theology9. Limits of Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology as Resources for a Contemporary Theological Metaphysics – With Alternatives10. Cog Is to Us As We Are to God11. Myth and Public ScienceEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex