Science in Christian Perspective


Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. Protestants in an age of science. The Baconian ideal and antebellum American religious thought. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

Butterfield, Herbert. The origins of modern science. London: Bell, 1973.

Crombie, A C. Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science AD 400-1650. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2nd Edition, 1961.

De Wit, J J Duyvene. Organic life and the evolutionistic world and life view. Hamilton: Guardian Publishing Co. Christian Perspectives, 1962.

Dembski, William A. Intelligent Design. The Bridge between Science and Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Dooyeweerd, H. The secularisation of science. Memphis: Christian Studies Center, 1954.

Fackerell, E. Teaching science in a Christian perspective. Potchefstroom: Institute for Reformational Studies, 1979.

Gillispie, Charles Coulston. Genesis and Geology. The impact of scientific discoveries upon religious beliefs in the decades before Darwin. New York: Harper, 1951.

Hannaway, Owen. The Chemists and the Word: The didactic origins of Chemistry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Hermann, Kenneth W. "Innocent as doves, but not wise as serpents: Nineteenth century evangelicals and evolution." Pro Rege 19 (1990) 1:1-11.

Hooykaas, R. Religion and the rise of modern science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.

Hovenkamp, Herbert. Science and religion in America, 1800-1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.

Hummel, Charles E. The Galileo Connection: Resolving Conflicts between Science and the Bible. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1986.

Jaki, Stanley L. Science and Creation. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1986.

Jaki, Stanley L. The Origin of Science and the Science of Its Origin. Henry Regnery/Gateway, 1978.

Jaki, Stanley L. The Road of Science and the Ways to God. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Kaiser, Christopher B. Creation and the History of Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

Klaaren, E. Religious Origins of Modern Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.

Lindberg, David C and Numbers, Ronald L (eds). God and Nature: Historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Livingstone, David N. "Evangelicals and Evolution: retrospect and prospect." Pro Rege 19 (1990) 1:12-23.

Livingstone, David N. "Evolution as metaphor and myth." Christian Scholar's Review 12 (1983) 2:111-125.

Livingstone, David N. "Pre-Adamites: History of an idea from heresy to orthodoxy." Scottish Journal of Theology 40 (1987) 41-66.

Livingstone, David N. "The idea of design: vicissitudes of a key concept in the Princeton response to Darwin." Scottish Journal of Theology 37 (1984) 3:329-358.

Livingstone, David N. Darwin’s forgotten defenders. The encounter between evangelical theology and evolutionary thought. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.

Lucas, Ernest. Science and the New Age Challenge. Nottingham: InterVarsity Press (Apollos), 1998.

Moore, James R. The post-Darwinian controversies: a study of the Protestant struggle to come to terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Nyhof, John. "Physics and reality." Findings 1 (1980) 34-46.

Ratzsch, Del. Science and its Limits: The natural sciences in Christian perspective. Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
(formerly published in 1986 as "Philosophy of science: The natural sciences in Christian perspective.")

Russell, Colin A. "The conflict metaphor and its social origins." Science and Christian Belief 1 (1989) 1:3-26.

Russell, Colin A. Cross-currents. Interactions between science and faith. Nottingham: InterVarsity Press, 1985.

Schuurman, Egbert. "The scientialisation of modern culture." Philosophia Reformata 43 (1978) 38-48.

Stafleu, M D. "Analysis of time in modern physics." Philosophia Reformata 35 (1970) 1-24; 119-131.

Stafleu, M D. "Metric and measurement in physics." Philosophia Reformata 37 (1972) 42-57.

Stafleu, M D. Time and again: A systematic analysis of the foundations of physics. Toronto: Wedge, 1980.

Strauss, D F M. "Are the natural sciences free from philosophical presuppositions?" Philosophia Reformata 46 (1981)1-13.

Van der Meer, Jitse. "Hierarchy: towards a framework for the coherence of faith and science." Pro Rege 17 (1989) 3-4:19-33.

Van Peursen, C A. "Dooyeweerd and the discussion about science." Pro Rege 24 (1995) 1:11-17.

Van Riessen, H. "Science between presuppositions and decisions." Philosophia Reformata 38 (1973) 114-126.

Van Till, Howard J, Robert E Snow, John H Stek, Davis A Young. Portraits of creation: biblical and scientific perspectives on the world’s formation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

Van Till, Howard J. "Scientific world pictures within the bounds of a Christian worldview." Pro Rege 17 (1989) 3-4:11-18.

Vander Vennen, Robert. Reflections on Christianity and chemistry. Toronto: Institute for Christian Studies.

Verbrugge, Magnus. "A new look at scientific enquiry." Online text.

Wilcox, David L. "A Christian integrative framework for biology." Christian Scholar's Review 12 (1983) 4:339-348.

Wilcox, David. Jesus Christ, Lord of Biology? Toronto: Institute for Christian Studies.

Wright, Richard T. Biology through the eyes of faith. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1998.

Young, Davis A. "Nineteenth century Christian geologists and the doctrine of scripture." Christian Scholar’s Review 11 (1982) 3:212-228.

Young, Davis A. "Scripture in the hands of geologists." Two Parts. Westminster Theological Journal 49 (1987) 1-34, 257-304.

Young, Davis A. "The Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race Revisited." Christian Scholar’s Review 24 (1995) 4:380-396.

Young, Davis A. Christianity and the Age of the Earth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.

Young, Davis A. "The Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race Revisited." Christian Scholar's Review 24 (1995) 4:380-396.

Young, Davis A. The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church’s Response to Extrabiblical Evidence. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Exeter, England: Paternoster Press, 1995.


Creationism - Christian Critiques



Frye, Roland M. Is God a creationist? The religious case against creation-science. New York: Scribners, 1983.

Livingstone, David N. "B B Warfield, the theory of evolution and early fundamentalism." Evangelical Quarterly 58 (1986) 68-83.

Livingstone, David N. "Science, religion, and ideology: the case of Evangelicals and evolution." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 39 (1987) March, 41-45.

Livingstone, David N. "The idea of design: the vicissitudes of a key concept in the Princeton response to Darwin." Scottish Journal of Theology 37 (1984) 3:329-357.

Marsden, George M. "The evangelical love affair with enlightenment science." In: Understanding fundamentalism and evangelicalism. Marsden, George M, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

Marsden, George M. "Why creation science?" In: Understanding fundamentalism and evangelicalism. Marsden, George M, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

Menninga, Clarence; Van Till, Howard J; Young, Davis A. Science Held Hostage: What’s Wrong with Creation Science and Evolutionism. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 1988.

Numbers, Ronald L. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
A review of this book by Mark Noll in First Things 32 (April 1993) 45-48 is available online.

Ratzsch, Del. The Battle of Beginnings: Why neither side is winning the Creation-Evolution debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity press, 1996.

Toumey, Christopher P. God’s Own Scientists: creationists in a secular world. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Van Till, Howard J, Davis A Young, Clarence Menninga. Science held hostage: what's wrong with creation science and evolutionism. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1988.

Webb, George E. "The Baconian origins of scientific creationism." National Forum 63 (1983) 2:33-35.

Young, Davis A. Christianity and the Age of the Earth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982.

Young, Davis A. Creation and the Flood: An Alternative to Flood Geology and Theistic Evolution. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977.

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