Project Director Emeritus Russell Stannard Recommends:

These recommended books are drawn from a wide variety of sources and presented in two formats: grouped by subject and arranged by author. In drawing up the lists of books, I have tried to keep in mind the particular needs and interests of the Templeton-Cambridge fellows. The lists are not meant to be restrictive.

Historical perspectives on the Relationships between Science and Religion
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Brooke, John Hedley, ed., Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press
Dillenberger, John, Protestant Thought and Natural Science: A Historical Interpretation, University of Notre Dame Press
Ferris, Timothy, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, HarperCollins
General Overview (incorporating many of the topics that appear under other headings)
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Alexander, Denis, and Robert S. White, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Atkins, P. W., Creation Revisited, W.H. Freeman & Company
Barbour, Ian G., Nature, Human Nature, and God, Augsburg Fortress, The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Barbour, Ian G., When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?, HarperCollins, The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Barbour, Ian G., Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues, HarperCollins
Barbour, Ian G., Issues in Science and Religion, HarperCollins
Clayton, Philip, God and Contemporary Science, Wm. B. Eerdmans
Haught, John F., Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, Paulist Press
Jeeves, Malcom A., and R. J. Berry, Science, Life and Christian Belief: A Survey and Assessment, InterVarsity Press
Lindberg, David C., and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., When Science and Christianity Meet, University of Chicago Press
Matthews, Clifford N., and Roy Abraham Varghese, eds., Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where Science and Religion Meet, Carus Publishing Company
McGrath, Alister E., Science & Religion: An Introduction, Blackwells
Peacocke, Arthur, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming-Natural, Divine and Human, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Peacocke, Arthur, God and Science, SCM Press
Peacocke, Arthur, Paths From Science Towards God, Oneworld Publication
Peters, Ted, and Gaymon Bennett, eds., Bridging Science and Religion, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Polkinghorne, John, Reason and Reality: The Relationship Between Science and Theology, Trinity Press International/ Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Polkinghorne, John, Science & Theology: An Introduction, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Polkinghorne, John, The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Polkinghorne, John, Belief in God in an Age of Science, Yale University Press
Polkinghorne, John, and Michael Welker, Faith in the Living God: A Dialogue, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Raman, Varadaraja V., Variety in Religion and Science: Daily Reflections, iUniverse Inc.
Richardson, W. Mark, and Gordy Slack, Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth, Routledge
Richardson, Mark W., Robert John Russell, Philip Clayton, and Kirk Wetger-McNelly, Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, Routledge
Stannard, Russell, Science And The Renewal Of Belief, Templeton Foundation Press
Stannard, Russell, The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God?, Paulist Press
Stannard, Russell, Science and Wonders: Conversations About Science and Belief, Faber & Faber
Stannard, Russell, God For The 21st Century, Templeton Foundation Press
Templeton, John M., ed., How Large Is God? The Voices of Scientists and Theologians, Templeton Foundation Press
Van Huyssteen, Wentzel, Duet or Duel: Theology and Science in a Postmodern World, Trinity Press International
Van Till, Howard, The Fourth Day: What the Bible and the Heavens Are Telling Us About Creation, Wm. B. Eerdmans
Watts, Fraser, ed., Science Meets Faith: Theology & Science in Conversation, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Reason Within the Bounds of Religion, Wm. B. Eerdmans
The Nature of Science
Dawkins, Richard, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, Mariner Books
Ellis, George, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Marion Boyars
Modern physics
Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Random House
The Laws of nature, including the Anthropic Principle
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Barrow, John D., and F. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press
Barrow, John D., The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega—The Numbers that Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe, Pantheon Books
Davies, Paul, The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, Simon & Schuster
Cosmology
Atkins, P. W., Creation Revisited, W.H. Freeman & Company
Davies, Paul, The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, Simon & Schuster
Ellis, George, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Marion Boyars
Matt, Daniel Chanan, God & the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science & Spirituality, Jewish Lights Publishing
Tilbey, Angela, Soul: God, Self and New Cosmology, Random House
Wilkinson, David, and Reverend Bob Frost, Thinking Clearly About God and Science, Monarch Publishing Associates
Time
Fagg, Lawrence W., The Becoming of Time: Integrating Physical and Religious Time, Duke University Press
Origins of Life and Evolution
Conway Morris, Simon, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press
Davies, Paul, The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life, Simon & Schuster
Dawkins, Richard, Climbing Mount Improbable, W. W. Norton & Company
Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, W. W. Norton
Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Simon & Schuster
Gregersen, Niels Henrik, ed., From Complexity to Life: On The Emergence of Life and Meaning, Oxford University Press
Haught, John F., Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution, Perseus Books Group
Matthews, Clifford N., Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Philip Hefner, eds., When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It, Carus Publishing Company
Monod, Jacques, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, Knopf
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man, HarperCollins
Ward, Keith, God, Chance & Necessity, Oneworld Publication
Creationism and Evolution
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Alexander, Denis, and Robert S. White, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Berry, R. J., God and the Biologist: Personal Exploration of Science and Faith, Apollos
Gilkey, Langdon, Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock, University Press of Virginia
Lucas, Ernest, Can We Believe Genesis Today?, InterVarsity Press
Ruse, Michael, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion, Cambridge University Press
Van Huyssteen, Wentzel, Theology and the Justification of Faith: Constructing Theories in Systematic Theology, Wm. B. Eerdmans
Life Elsewhere in the Universe
Conway Morris, Simon, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press
Jones, Barrie W., Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Springer
Genetics and Bio-technology
Alexander, Denis, and Robert S. White, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed., Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity, Trinity Press International
Cole-Turner, Ronald, and Brent Waters, Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life, Pilgrim Press
Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed., Human Cloning: Religious Responses, Westminster John Knox Press
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press
Deane-Drummond, Celia, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Robin Grove-White, eds., Reordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, T. & T. Clark
Holland, Suzanne, Laurie Zoloth, and Karen Lebacqz, eds., The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, MIT Press
Jones, Steve, Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present, and Future, Random House
Peters, Ted, Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom, Routledge
Pollack, Robert, The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith, Columbia University Press
Reiss, Michael Jonathan, and Roger Straughan, Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering, Cambridge University Press
Rifkind, Jeremy, The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, Penguin Putnam
Mind/Brain/ Soul
Albright, Carol Rausch, and James B. Ashbrook, Where God Lives in the Human Brain, Sourcebooks
Atkins, P. W., Creation Revisited, W.H. Freeman & Company
Brown, Warren S., Nancey C. Murphy, and H. Newton Malony, eds., Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature, Augsburg Fortress
Crick, Francis, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, Simon & Schuster
Jeeves, Malcolm A., Mind Fields: Reflections on the Science of Mind and Brain, Baker Publishing Group
Jeeves, Malcolm A., Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Baker Publishing Group
Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, William Morrow and Company
Ward, Keith, God, Faith, and the New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science, Oneworld Publication
Ward, Keith, In Defence of The Soul, Oneworld Publication
Spirituality and Health
Chamberlain, Theodore J., and Christopher A. Hall, Realized Religion: Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health, Templeton Foundation Press
Koenig, Harold G., Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson, Handbook of Religion and Health, Oxford University Press
Koenig, Harold G., and Malcolm McConnell, The Healing Power of Faith: How Belief and Prayer Can Help You Triumph Over Disease, Simon & Schuster
Koenig, Harold G., Is Religion Good for Your Health: The Effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health, Haworth Press
Matthews, Dale A., and Connie Clark, The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer, Penguin Putnam Putnam
Tolson, Chester, PhD, and Harold George Koenig, The Healing Power Of Prayer: The Surprising Connection Between Prayer And Your Health, Baker Publishing Group
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Boden, Margaret A., The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Routledge
Boden, Margaret A., ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Life, Oxford University Press
Watts, Fraser, Theology and Psychology, Ashgate Publishing
Neuroscience
Albright, Carol Rausch, and James B. Ashbrook, Where God Lives in the Human Brain, Sourcebooks
Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, William Morrow and Company
Environment and Ethics
Barbour, Ian G., Ethics in an Age of Technology, HarperCollins
Berry, R. J., ed., The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action, InterVarsity Press
Hefner, Philip, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Houghton, Sir John, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Cambridge University Press
Light, Andrew, and Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: An Anthology, Blackwell
Matthews, Clifford N., Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Philip Hefner, eds., When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It, Carus Publishing Company
McFague, Sallie, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Santmire, H. Paul, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Sobosan, Jeffrey G., The Turn of the Millennium: An Agenda for Christian Religion in an Age of Science, The Pilgrim Press
God’s Action in the World
Tracy, Thomas F., ed., The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations, Pennsylvania State University Press
Psychology
Jeeves, Malcolm A., Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Baker Publishing Group
Loewenthal, Kate, Psychology of Religion, Oneworld Publication
Myers, David G., and Malcolm A. Jeeves, Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith, HarperCollins
Wertheim, Margaret, Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, W. W. Norton & Company
Philosophy and Theology
Barr, James, Biblical Faith and Natural Theology, Oxford University Press
Hefner, Philip, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Soskice, Janet Martin, Metaphor and Religious Language, Oxford University Press
Trigg, Roger, Rationality and Science: Can Science Explain Everything?, Blackwell
Trigg, Roger, Rationality and Religion: Does Faith Need Reason?, Blackwell
Worthing, Mark William, God, Creation, and Contemporary Physics, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Eschatology (End Times)
Peters, Ted, Robert John Russell, and Michael Welker, eds., Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, Wm. B. Eerdmans
Polkinghorne, John, and Michael Welker, The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology, Trinity Press International
Feminist Theology
McFague, Sallie, Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
McFague, Sallie, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Wilkinson, David, God, the Big Bang, and Stephen Hawking, Monarch Publishing Associates
New Age Philosophy
Lucas, Ernest, Science and the New Age Challenge, InterVarsity Press
Islam
Ramadan, Tariq, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, Oxford University Press
Atheistic viewpoints
Atkins, P. W., Creation Revisited, W.H. Freeman & Company
Dawkins, Richard, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, Mariner Books
Dennett, Daniel C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Simon & Schuster
Monod, Jacques, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology, Knopf