Project Co-director Fraser Watts Recommends:
These recommended books are drawn from a wide variety of sources and are presented in two formats: grouped by subject and alphabetically arranged by author. In drawing up and revising the list of books, we have tried to keep in mind the particular needs and interests of the Templeton-Cambridge fellows. The lists are not intended to be comprehensive.
- , and , Where God Lives in the Human Brain, Sourcebooks
- , Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
- , and , Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
- , Nature, Human Nature and God, SPCK, Augsburg Fortress
- , When Science Meets Religion - Enemies, Strangers or Partners?, SPCK
- , Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues, Harper Collins
- , Ethics in an Agge of Technology, Harper San Francisco
- , Fundamentalism, SCM Press
- , Biblical Faith and Natural Theology, Oxford University Press
- , and , The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press
- , The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega, Pantheon
- , , and , Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective, Oxford University Press
- , The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion, Orbis Books
- , The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience, Routledge
- , The Care of Creation: Foxussing Concern and Action, Inter-Varsity Press
- , God and the Biologist - Faith at the Frontiers of Science, Apollos
- , The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Routledge
- , Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press
- , , and , Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraints of Human Nature, Augsburg Fortress Press
- , The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man, Touchstone
- , God and Contemporary Science, Eerdmans
- , Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press
- , Beyond Cloning, Trinity Press
- , Human Cloning: Religious Responses, Westminster John Knox Press
- , and , Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life, Westminster John Knox Press
- , The Crucible of Creation: the Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press
- , Life’s Solutions: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press
- , The Astonishing Hypothesis: the Scientific Search for the Soul, Simon & Schuster
- , The Origin of Life (otherwise known as the Fifth Miracle), Penguin
- , The Mind of God, Simon & Schuster
- , Climbing Mount Improbable, Norton
- , The God Delusion, Oxford University Press
- , The Blind Watchmaker, Norton/Penguin
- , The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press
- , Unweaving the Rainbow, Penguin
- , , and , Re-ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, T T Clark
- , Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon & Schuster
- , Protestant Thought and Natural Science, University of Notre Dame Press
- , Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Marion Moyars Publishers
- , The Becoming of Time, Duke University Press
- , Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Anchor/Doubleday
- , Creationism on Trial, Winston Press/University Press of Virginia
- , God’s Universe, Belknap
- , The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, Penguin
- , and , Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem, Yale University Press
- , From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning, Oxford University Press
- , The Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge
- , Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution, Westview Press
- , God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, Westview Press
- , Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, Paulist Press
- , Why Gods Persist: a Scientific Approach to Religion, Routledge
- , , and , The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics and Public Policy, MIT
- , , and , The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism, The Guilford Press
- , Global Warming, Cambridge University Press
- , Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Inter-Varsity Press
- , and , Science, Life and Christian Belief - a Survey and Assessment, Apollos/Baker Books
- , Mind Fields - Reflections on the Science of Mind and Brain, Lancer/Apollos
- , The Language of Genes, Flamingo
- , Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Springer
- , and , The Healing Power of Faith, Simon & Schuster
- , Is Religion Good for You?, Haworth Press
- , Handbook of Religion and Metal Health, Academic Press, Elsevier Science
- , and , Handbook of Religion and Health: a Century of Research Reviewed, Oxford University Press
- , and , Environmental Ethics, Blackwell
- , and , When Science and Christianity Meet, University of Chicago Press
- , and , Positive Psychology in Practice, John Wiley & Sons
- , and , Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry, Routledge
- , The Psychology of Religion, Oneworld
- , God and the Big Bang, Jewish Lights Publishing
- , and , Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where Science and Religion Meet, Open Court
- , and , The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer, Penguin Putnam
- , , and , When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion tell us about the Story of the Universe, Open Court
- , Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language, Fortress Press
- , The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Fortress Press
- , Science and Religion: an Introduction, Blackwell
- , The Order of Things: Exploration in Scientific Theology, Wiley-Blackwell
- , Change and Necessity, Penguin
- , In Search of Personality: Christianity and Modern Psychology, SCM Press
- , and , Psychology through the Eyes of Faith, Harper Collins
- , Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Ballantine Books
- , The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, research, practice, The Guilford Press
- , Paths from Science towards God - the End to All Our Exploring, Oneworld
- , Theology for a Scientific Age, Fortress Press
- , and , Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, Eerdmans
- , and , Bridging Science and Religion, Augsburg Fortress Press
- , Playing God, Routledge
- , and , Character Strengths and Virtues, Oxford University Press
- , and , Faith in the Living God - A Dialogue, SPCK
- , Quantum Physics and Theology, SPCK
- , and , The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology in Eschatology, Trinity Press
- , Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker, Fortress Press
- , Science and Theology: An Introduction, Fortress Press
- , Belief in God in an Age of Science, Yale University Press
- , The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith, Columbia University Press
- , and , Phantoms of the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Quill/Morrow Junior Books
- , The Messenger: the Meanings of the Life of Mohammad, Oxford University Press
- , Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, Oxford University Press
- , Variety in Religion and Science: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge
- , and , Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering, Cambridge University Press
- , and , Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue, Routledge
- , and , Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth, Routledge
- , , and , Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, Routledge
- , The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, Tarcher-Putnam
- , Can a Darwinian be a Christian?, Cambridge University Press
- , The Travail of Nature, Augsburg Fortress Press
- , Divine Action and Modern Science, Cambridge University Press
- , , and , Making Sence of Generation Y: The Worldview of 15-25 Year Olds, Church House Publishing
- , and , Handbook of Positive Psychology, Oxford University Press
- , The Turn of the Millennium: An Agenda for Christian Religion in an Age of Science, Pilgrim
- , Metaphor and Religious Language, Oxford University Press
- , God, Humanity and the Cosmos: a Textbook in Science and Religion, Trinity Press
- , and , Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, SPCK
- , , and , The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach, The Guilford Press
- , The God Experiment, Hidden Spring/Faber
- , God for the 21
st Century, Templeton Foundation Press - , The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality, Brunner-Routledge
- , The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Collins
- , Soul: God, Self and the New Cosmology, Doubleday
- , and , The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health, Baker Books
- , Religion and Social Theory, Sage Publications
- , Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, Eerdmans
- , Duet or Duel: Theology and Science in a Postmodern World, Trinity Press
- , Theology and the Justification of Faith, Eerdmans
- , The Fourth Day, Eerdmans
- , God, Chance and Necessity, Oneworld
- , God, Faith and the New Millennium - Christian Belief in an Age of Science, Oneworld
- , In Defence of the Soul, Oneworld
- , and , The Psychology of Christian Knowing, Cambridge University Press
- , , and , Psychology for the Christian Ministry, Routledge
- , Theology and Psychology, Ashgate
- , Science meets Faith, SPCK/International Publishers
- , Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, Eerdmans
- , Pythagoras Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars, W W Norton & Co
- , and , Thinking Clearly about God and Science, Monarch Books
- , Reason Within the Bounds of Religion, Eerdmans
- , God, Creation and Contemporary Physics, Fortress Press
- , Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary, Wiley & Sons