Our Common Cosmos

Zoë Lehmann Imfeld is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Zurich, and lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland.Andreas Losch is principal investigator of the project “Ethics of Planetary Sustainability” at the Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland.

• List of ContributorsForeword - Carl Pilcher, NASA Astrobiology Institute, USAIntroduction, Andreas Losch, University of Bern, Switzerland, Zoe Lehmann Imfeld, Centre for Space and Habitability, SwitzerlandPart 1: Approaches1. Conversations Along the Way: How and Why Science and Theology Need to Interact - Markus Mühling, Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel, Germany2. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours’: Why the Differences of Science, Religion and Theology Must Not Be Blurred - Dirk Evers, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany3. Modelling the Relation between Theology and Science - Andreas Losch, University of Bern, Switzerland4. Who’s Afraid of Reductionism’s Wolf? The Return of Scientia - Connor Cunningham, University of Nottingham, UKPart 2: Interactions5. Sustainability: Interaction Between Science, Ethics and Theology - Robert S. White, University of Cambridge, UK6. About Continuous Creation, and Some Ethical Principles for Ecology - Fabien Revol, Catholic University of Lyon, France7. Aesthetics at the Intersection of Science and Theology - Knut-Willy Sæther, Volda University College, Norway 8. Imagination as Co-Creation: Science and Theology Through the Lens of Science-Fiction Literature - Zoe Lehmann Imfeld, Centre for Space and Habitability , Switzerland9. A Philosophical Outlook on Potential Conflicts Between Planetary Protection, Astrobiology and Commercial Use of Space - Erik Persson, Uppsala University, Sweden10. The End of Copernican Mediocrity: How Modern Astrophysics Has Reinvigorated the Spiritual Dimension - Howard A. Smith, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USAAfterword: Our Place in the Universe - Tom McLeish, York University, UKIndex

There is much food for thought in this collection, and any reader will find something to challenge and enlarge their thinking.