Project Co-director Fraser Watts Recommends:

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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.

AI
Boden, M, The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, Routledge
Watts, Fraser, Theology and Psychology, Ashgate
Atheism
Beattie, Tina, The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion, Orbis Books
Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion, Oxford University Press
Dawkins, Richard, Unweaving the Rainbow, Penguin
Dennett, Daniel C, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon & Schuster
Monod, Jacques, Change and Necessity, Penguin
Cosmology
Davies, Paul C W, The Mind of God, Simon & Schuster
Ellis, George, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Marion Moyars Publishers
Ferris, Timothy, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Anchor/Doubleday
Matt, Daniel, God and the Big Bang, Jewish Lights Publishing
Southgate, Christopher, God, Humanity and the Cosmos: a Textbook in Science and Religion, Trinity Press
Tilbey, Angela, Soul: God, Self and the New Cosmology, Doubleday
Creationism
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Alexander, Denis, and S White, Robert, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Berry, R J, God and the Biologist - Faith at the Frontiers of Science, Apollos
Gilkey, Langdon, Creationism on Trial, Winston Press/University Press of Virginia
Newberg, Andrew, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Ballantine Books
Ruse, Michael, Can a Darwinian be a Christian?, Cambridge University Press
Van Till, Howard, The Fourth Day, Eerdmans
End
Peters, Ted: Russell, R J, and M Welker, Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, Eerdmans
Polkinghorne, John, and Michael Welker, The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and Theology in Eschatology, Trinity Press
Welker, Michael, Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments, Eerdmans
Ethics
Barbour, Ian, Ethics in an Agge of Technology, Harper San Francisco
Berry, R J, The Care of Creation: Foxussing Concern and Action, Inter-Varsity Press
Houghton, John, Global Warming, Cambridge University Press
Light, A, and Holmes III Rolston, Environmental Ethics, Blackwell
Matthews, Clifford N, M E Tucker, and P Hefner, When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion tell us about the Story of the Universe, Open Court
McFague, Sallie, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Fortress Press
Santmire, H Paul, The Travail of Nature, Augsburg Fortress Press
Sobosan, Jeffrey G, The Turn of the Millennium: An Agenda for Christian Religion in an Age of Science, Pilgrim
Spencer, Nick, and Robert White, Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, SPCK
Feminism
McFague, Sallie, Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language, Fortress Press
McFague, Sallie, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Fortress Press
Wertheim, Margaret, Pythagoras Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars, W W Norton & Co
General
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Alexander, Denis, and S White, Robert, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Barbour, Ian, Nature, Human Nature and God, SPCK, Augsburg Fortress
Barbour, Ian, When Science Meets Religion - Enemies, Strangers or Partners?, SPCK
Clayton, Philip, God and Contemporary Science, Eerdmans
Clayton, Philip, Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press
Haught, John F, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation, Paulist Press
Jeeves, Malcolm A, and R J Berry, Science, Life and Christian Belief - a Survey and Assessment, Apollos/Baker Books
Lindberg, David C, and Ronald L (eds) Numbers, When Science and Christianity Meet, University of Chicago Press
Matthews, Clifford N, and Roy Abraham Varghese, Cosmic Beginnings and Human Ends: Where Science and Religion Meet, Open Court
McGrath, Alister, Science and Religion: an Introduction, Blackwell
Peacocke, Arthur, Paths from Science towards God - the End to All Our Exploring, Oneworld
Peacocke, Arthur, Theology for a Scientific Age, Fortress Press
Peters, Ted, and G Bennett, Bridging Science and Religion, Augsburg Fortress Press
Polkinghorne, John, and Michael Welker, Faith in the Living God - A Dialogue, SPCK
Polkinghorne, John, Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker, Fortress Press
Polkinghorne, John, Science and Theology: An Introduction, Fortress Press
Polkinghorne, John, Belief in God in an Age of Science, Yale University Press
Raman, V V, Variety in Religion and Science: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge
Richardson, W M, and J W (eds) Wildman, Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue, Routledge
Richardson, W M, and G (eds) Slack, Faith in Science: Scientists Search for Truth, Routledge
Richardson, W M; Russell, R J, P Clayton, and K (eds) Wetger-Mcnelly, Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists, Routledge
Southgate, Christopher, God, Humanity and the Cosmos: a Textbook in Science and Religion, Trinity Press
Stannard, F Russell, The God Experiment, Hidden Spring/Faber
Stannard, F Russell, God for the 21st Century, Templeton Foundation Press
Van Huyssteen, Wentzel, Duet or Duel: Theology and Science in a Postmodern World, Trinity Press
Ward, Keith, God, Faith and the New Millennium - Christian Belief in an Age of Science, Oneworld
Watts, Fraser, Science meets Faith, SPCK/International Publishers
Wilkinson, D, and R Frost, Thinking Clearly about God and Science, Monarch Books
Genetics
Alexander, Denis, and S White, Robert, Beyond Belief, Lion Hudson
Cole-Turner, Ronald (ed), Beyond Cloning, Trinity Press
Cole-Turner, Ronald, Human Cloning: Religious Responses, Westminster John Knox Press
Cole-Turner, R, and B Waters, Pastoral Genetics: Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life, Westminster John Knox Press
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press
Deane-Drummond, C, B Szerszynski, and R Grove-White, Re-ordering Nature: Theology, Society and the New Genetics, T T Clark
Holland, S, K Lebacqz, and L Zoloth, The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics and Public Policy, MIT
Jones, Steve, The Language of Genes, Flamingo
Peters, Ted, Playing God, Routledge
Pollack, R, The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith, Columbia University Press
Reiss, M, and R Straughan, Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering, Cambridge University Press
Rifkind, J, The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World, Tarcher-Putnam
Health
Koenig, Harold, and M McConnell, The Healing Power of Faith, Simon & Schuster
Koenig, Harold, Is Religion Good for You?, Haworth Press
Koenig, Harold, Handbook of Religion and Metal Health, Academic Press, Elsevier Science
Koenig, Harold, and Michael E McCullough, Handbook of Religion and Health: a Century of Research Reviewed, Oxford University Press
Matthews, D A, and C Clark, The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer, Penguin Putnam
Tolson, C L, and H G Koenig, The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health, Baker Books
Hinduism
Raman, V V, Variety in Religion and Science: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge
Historical
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Brooke, John Hedley, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press
Dillinger, John, Protestant Thought and Natural Science, University of Notre Dame Press
Ferris, Timothy, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Anchor/Doubleday
Islam
Ramadan, Tariq, The Messenger: the Meanings of the Life of Mohammad, Oxford University Press
Ramadan, Tariq, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, Oxford University Press
Laws
Alexander, Denis, Rebuilding the Matrix, Lion Hudson
Barrow, J, and F Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press
Barrow, John, The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega, Pantheon
Davies, Paul C W, The Mind of God, Simon & Schuster
Mind
Albright, C, and J Ashbrook, Where God Lives in the Human Brain, Sourcebooks
Brown, W S, N Murphy, and H N Malony, Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraints of Human Nature, Augsburg Fortress Press
Crick, Francis, The Astonishing Hypothesis: the Scientific Search for the Soul, Simon & Schuster
Jeeves, Malcolm A, Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Inter-Varsity Press
Jeeves, Malcolm A, Mind Fields - Reflections on the Science of Mind and Brain, Lancer/Apollos
Newberg, Andrew, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Ballantine Books
Ramachandran, V S, and S Blakeslee, Phantoms of the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Quill/Morrow Junior Books
Ward, Keith, In Defence of the Soul, Oneworld
Nature
Dawkins, Richard, Unweaving the Rainbow, Penguin
Ellis, George, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, Marion Moyars Publishers
Neuro
Albright, C, and J Ashbrook, Where God Lives in the Human Brain, Sourcebooks
Ramachandran, V S, and S Blakeslee, Phantoms of the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, Quill/Morrow Junior Books
Origins
Conway Morris, Simon, The Crucible of Creation: the Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press
Conway Morris, Simon, Life’s Solutions: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press
Davies, Paul C W, The Origin of Life (otherwise known as the Fifth Miracle), Penguin
Dawkins, Richard, Climbing Mount Improbable, Norton
Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton/Penguin
Dennett, Daniel C, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Simon & Schuster
Gregerson, N H, 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, Westview Press
Hinde, Robert A, Why Gods Persist: a Scientific Approach to Religion, Routledge
Matthews, Clifford N, M E Tucker, and P Hefner, When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion tell us about the Story of the Universe, Open Court
Monod, Jacques, Change and Necessity, Penguin
Newberg, Andrew, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Ballantine Books
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Collins
Van Huyssteen, Wentzel, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, Eerdmans
Ward, Keith, God, Chance and Necessity, Oneworld
Phil
Barr, James, Biblical Faith and Natural Theology, Oxford University Press
McGrath, Alister, The Order of Things: Exploration in Scientific Theology, Wiley-Blackwell
Saunders, Nicholas, Divine Action and Modern Science, Cambridge University Press
Soskice, Janet, Metaphor and Religious Language, Oxford University Press
Wolterstorff, Nicholas, Reason Within the Bounds of Religion, Eerdmans
Physics
Davies, Paul C W, The Mind of God, Simon & Schuster
Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, Penguin
Polkinghorne, John, Quantum Physics and Theology, SPCK
Psych
Barr, James, Fundamentalism, SCM Press
Batson, C Daniel, Patricia Schoenrade, and W Larry Ventis, Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective, Oxford University Press
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin, The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience, Routledge
Greeneberg, David, and Eliezer Witztum, Sanity and Sanctity: Mental Health Work among the Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem, Yale University Press
Hamilton, Malcolm, The Sociology of Religion: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge
Hood, Ralph, Peter Hill, and Paul Williamson, The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism, The Guilford Press
Jeeves, Malcolm A, Human Nature at the Millennium: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Inter-Varsity Press
Koenig, Harold, Handbook of Religion and Metal Health, Academic Press, Elsevier Science
Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge, Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry, Routledge
Loewenthal, Kate, The Psychology of Religion, Oneworld
Morea, Peter, In Search of Personality: Christianity and Modern Psychology, SCM Press
Myers, David, and Malcolm Jeeves, Psychology through the Eyes of Faith, Harper Collins
Pargament, Kenneth, The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, research, practice, The Guilford Press
Savage, Sara, Sylvie Mayo-Collins, and Robert Mayo, Making Sence of Generation Y: The Worldview of 15-25 Year Olds, Church House Publishing
Spilka, Bernard; Hunsberger, Bruce, Richard Jr Gorsuch, and Ralph Hood, The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach, The Guilford Press
Tacey, David, The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of Contemporary Spirituality, Brunner-Routledge
Turner, Brian, Religion and Social Theory, Sage Publications
Watts, Fraser, and Mark Williams, The Psychology of Christian Knowing, Cambridge University Press
Watts, Fraser, Rebecca Nye, and Sara Savage, Psychology for the Christian Ministry, Routledge
Watts, Fraser, Theology and Psychology, Ashgate
Wulff, David H, Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary, Wiley & Sons
Time
Fagg, Lawrence W, The Becoming of Time, Duke University Press
Universe
Conway Morris, Simon, Life’s Solutions: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press
Jones, Barrie, Life in the Solar System and Beyond, Springer