W 2/11--Ch. 4 "Ways of Relating Science and Religion," in Ian Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues, (preface; pp. 77-105)
F 2/13--Ch. 5, "Models and Paradigms," in Barbour, Religion and Science, (pp. 106-164)
M 2/16--Ch. 12, "God and Nature": Classical Theism (The monarchical model;
primary and secondary causation); Some Alternatives (God as Determiner of
Indeterminacies; God as Communicator of Information; God's self-limitation; God as Agent; the world as God's body), in Barbour, Religion and Science (pp. 305-321)
W 2/18--Ch. 11, "Process Thought," in Barbour, Religion and Science, (pp. 281-304; 322-328)
F 2/20--David Griffin, Ch. 4, "Creation Out of Chaos and the Problem of Evil," in Stephen Davis, ed., Encountering Evil, pp. 101-136

UNIT 2 - The History of the Relation in The West

M 2/23--Introduction: Theology and Modernity," in William C. Placher, The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong, (pp.1-17)
W 2/25--Ch. 1, "Physics and Metaphysics in the seventeenth Century": The Medieval World-Drama," "Galileo", "Newton" and "Religion and the Rise of Science," in Barbour, Religion and Science, pp 3-32
--Introduction--The End of the Modern World: A New Openness for Faith," and Ch. 1, "The Christian Roots of Modern Science and Christianity's Bad Image," in Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction, (pp. 1-19, 23-34)
Th 2/26 7-8 page paper on "Classical Theism" and "Process Thought" due
F 2/27--Ch. 2, "Nature and God in the Eighteenth Century," (Deism, Romantic Reaction, Hume and Kant) in Barbour, Religion and Science, pp. 33-48
M 3/2--Ch. 3, "Biology and Theology in the Nineteenth Century," (Darwin and the Modernist Movement) in Barbour, Religion and Science, pp. 49-74
--Part 3, "The Crucial Years: 1917-25" in George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, (selections, about 10 pages)

UNIT 3 - The Root of the Problem: The God-World Relation and the Doctrine of Creation

3.1--The Doctrine of Creation and the Radical Transcendence and Immanence of God

W 3/4 - Ch. 2, "Has Science Replaced Religion?": Ch 3. "The Order of the World Points to the Possibility of God"; Ch. 4, "The Existence of the WorldPoints to the Possibility of God" in Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World (pp. 35-52)
F 3/6 - Ch. 5 "The Need for God and the Book of Nature," in Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World, (pp. 53-63)

3.2--The Act of Creation and Divine Vulnerability

M 3/9 - Ch. 1 "The Vulnerable God," in William C. Placher, Narratives of a Vulnerable God, (pp. 3-21)
--The Bible: Genesis 1-12; John 1:1-14; Ps. 8; Ps. 74; Job 38-42.
--(used for lecture: Conrad Hyers, The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science, (1st two chs.)

3.3 -- Science and the Judeo-Christian Doctrine of Creation

W 3/11 --Ch. 1, "Christian Belief in a Scientific Age"; Ch. 2, "Understganding Quantum Theory"; Ch. 3, "Taking Science Seriously", in John Polkinghorne, Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue, (prefacep pp. 1-46)
"The Creation: Religion"s search for a comon ground with science" in U.S. News and World Report, Dec. 23, 1991, (pp. 56-63)
F 3/13--Ch. 4, "Taking Theology Seriously"; Ch. 5, "Creation", in Polkinghorne, Serious Talk, (pp. 60-75)
-Science and Original Sin," in Time, Oct. 28, 1996, (pp. 76-77)
-Ch. 5, "The Fall of Man," in C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, (pp. 69-88)
M 3/16--Ch 7, "Physics and Metaphyscis," in Barbour, Religion, (pp. 165-194)
W 3/18 Ch. 8, "Astronomy and Creation," in Barbour, Religion, (pp. 195-220)
F 3/20 --8-10 page Science and Creation paper due
3/21-3/29 SPRING BREAK

Unit 4: Divine Agency in the World: The Doctrine of Providence, Evolution and Free Human Agency

M 3/30 Ch 6, "Providence," in Polkinghorne, Serious Talk, (pp. 76-90)
Ch. 9, "Evolution and Continuing Creation"
W 4/1 (continued) Ch. 9, "Evolution and Continuing Creation"
F 4/3 Intro and Ch. 1, "The Two Claims of the Tradition in Barth's Providence doctrine in Church Dogmatics III/3," in Gregory Anderson Love, The Role of the Holoy Spirit in Barth's Understanding of the Conjoining of Divine and Human Agency in Divine Providence (Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996), (pp. 1-70)
M 4/6 Ch 2. "Davaney's Criticism of Barth's Position," in Gregory love, The Role of the Holy Spirit (pp. 71-95)
W 4/8 Ch. 3, Barth's View of the Proper Form for the Divine Concursus in His Doctrine of Providence in CD III/3," in Gregory Love, The Role of the Holy
Spirit pp. 96-122)
F 4/10 Ch. 3 (cont.), (pp. 123-150)
M 4/13 Easter Break
W 4/15 Ch. 5, "Barth's Use of Analogies for Consursus in CD III/3" in Gregory
love, The Role of the Holy Spirit, (pp. 299-345)
F 4/17 Ch. 5 (cont.), (pp. 345-371)
M 4/20 Ch. 1, "The Abyss of Reason"; Ch. 2, "Divine Freedom and Necessity" in
Keith Ward, Divine Action, (pp. 1-40)
W 4/22 Ch. 3, "The Origins of Suffering"; Ch. 4, "The Integral Web," in Keith
Ward, Divine Action, (pp. 41-73)
F 4/24 Ch 5., "The DEath of the Closed Universe," Ch. 6, "The Enfolding
Spirit," in Ward, Divine Action, (pp. 74-118)
M 4/27 Ch 7., "The Constraints of Creation"; Ch 8, "The Particularity of
Providence" in Ward, Divine Action, (pp. 119-153)
W 4/29 Chs. 7-8 (cont.)
F 5/1 Ch. 8, "Prayer as Participation in Divine Action," in Ward, Divine
Action (pp. 154-69)
Three articles on "Prayer," Christian Century (Feb. 1997)
Ch.10, "Work and Prayer," in C.S. Lewis, The Grand M....and Other Selected
Essays, (pp. 77-80)

UNIT 5 The Dangers of Science, Technology and Materialism

M 5/4 Ch. 1, "Men Without Chests"; Ch. 2, "The Way," in C.S. Lewis, The
Abolition of Man, (pp. 13-63)
W 5/6 Ch. 3, "The Abolition of Man, " in C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, (pp. 64-91)
F 5/8 Richard John Neuhaus, "The Return of Eugenics," in ...Guaranteeing The
Good Life: Medicine and the Return....(pp.1-28)
M 5/11 Biomedical Ethics: Opposing Views (new ed.), Ch 6., "What Ethics Should
Guide Genetic Research?", pp. 252-...
W 5/13 Conclusion: Science and Religion