We present a selection of relevant books on Science and Religion introduced by scholar reviewers and reprinted from ESSSAT News & Reviews, the official bulletin of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (2014-2021) and from Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology, jointly published by ESSSAT and the International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) (2022-onward). We acknowledge the ESSSAT and ISSR Councils for giving permission to INTERS to reprint the reviews. Reviews are listed in alphabetical order by author.
Denis Alexander, Is there Purpose in Biology? The Cost of Existence and the God of Love, (Oxford, UK: Lion Hudson, 2018), by Neil Spurway
Beena Ammanath, Trustworthy AI. A business guide for navigating trust and ethics in AI (Hoboken, New Jersey: Willey, 2022), by Giovanni Greco
Robert Audi, Naturalism, Normativity, and Explanation, (Kràkow: Copernicus Center Press, 2014), by José Manuel Lozano
Michael Augros, The Immortal in You: How Human Nature is More Than Science Can Say (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2017), by Esgrid Sikahall
Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023) by Robert F. Shedinger
Andrew Briggs, Michael J. Reiss, Human Flourishing: Scientific Insight & Spiritual Wisdom in Uncertain Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), by Lluis Oviedo
Shaun Carroll, The big picture. On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself, (London: OneWorld, 2016), by Neil Spurway
Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann and Bronislaw Szerszynski (eds.) Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred. Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015), by José Manuel Lozano
Ilia Delio, Re-Enchanting the Earth. Why AI Needs Religion (New York: Orbis Books, 2020), by Marius Dorobantu
Elaine H. Ecklund, Why Science and Faith Need Each Other. Eight Shared Values That Move us Beyond Fear (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2020), by S.C. Fritsch Oppermann
Fiona Ellis, God, Value and Nature, (Oxford: University Press, 2014), by Neil Spurway
Joshua R. Farris and Charles Taliaferro, The Ashgate Companion to Theological Anthropology (Farnham, UK, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), by Lluis Oviedo
Maurice A. Finocchiaro, On Trial for Reason. Science, Religion and Culture in the Galileo Affair (Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), by José Manuel Lozano-Gotor
Luciano Floridi, Etica dell’intelligenza Artificiale. Sviluppi, opportunità, sfide (Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2022), by Giovanni Greco
Luciano Floridi (Ed.), Ethics, Governance, and Policies in Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, 2021), by Giovanni Greco
C. Gamble, J. Gowlett & R. Dunbar, Thinking Big - How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind (New York: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2015), by H. Hemminger
Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter and our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (London: Allen Lane, New York: Random House, 2020), by Neil Spurway
Niels Henrik Gregersen (ed.), Incarnation. On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015), by Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann
Peter Harrison & John Milbank (Eds.), After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), by Juuso Loikkanen
Mary Ann Hinsdale, I.H.M. & Stephen Okey, T&T Handbook of Theological Anthropology (London, New York, Dublin: T&T Clark 2021), by Lluis Oviedo
Michael Huemer, Approaching Infinity (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016), by Claudio Ternullo
Malcolm Jeeves (ed.), The emergence of personhood: A quantum leap? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2015), by Naveen George
Simon Maria Kopf, Reframing Providence. New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate, (Oxford: Oxford University, 2023), by S. Fritsch-Oppermann
John C. Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything? (Charlotte, NC: The Good Book, 2019), by Andrea Vestrucci
Tim Lewens, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), by Lluis Oviedo
Alister E. McGrath, Re-imagining Nature: The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017), by François de Poitiers
Alister E. McGrath, The Great Mystery. Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017), by Hansjörg Hemminger
Alister E. McGrath, Natural philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), by Michael Borowski
Tom McLeish, Faith and Wisdom in Science, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), by Jaime Tatay
Hilary Putnam, Naturalism, Realism, and Normativity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), by Mikael Leidenhag
Kenneth A. Reynhout, Interdisciplinary Interpretation: Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Theology and Science (Plymouth, U.K.: Lexington Books, 2013), by Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann
Sal Restivo, Beyond New Atheism and Theism: A Sociology of Science, Secularism and Religiosity (London: Routledge, 2024) by Willem B. Drees
Aaron Ricker, Christopher J. Corbally, and Darryl Dinell (eds.), Intersections of Religion and Astronomy (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), by Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Astrotopia. The Dangerous Religion of the Corpo-rate Space Race (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Konrad Szocik
Anne L. C. Runehov, The Human Being, the World, and God (Basel, CH: Springer, 2016), by R. Cazalis
Christopher Southgate, Theology in a Suffering World: Glory and Longing (Cambridge, UK, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Lluis Oviedo
Rodney Stark, Why God? Explaining Religious Phenomena (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2017), by Neil Spurway
Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, Scientific Perspectives in Fundamental Theology: Understanding Christian Faith in the Age of Scientific Reason (Claremont, CA: Claremont Press, 2022), by Lluis Oviedo
Roger Trigg, Beyond Matter. Why Science Needs Metaphysics (West Conshohocken: Templeton, 2015), by Lari Launonen
J. H. Turner, A. Maryanski, A. K. Petersen, A. W. Geertz, The Emergence and Evolution of Religion: By Means of Natural Selection (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), by Ivan Colagé
Roger Wagner and Andrew Briggs, The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016), by Neil Spurway
