Typologies Relating Science and Religion

One of the features of the science-religion debate has been a search for typologies of the relationships between science and religion. Here are three:

• Barbour’s Typology

• Peters’ Typology

• Drees’ Typology

See also three topics which clarify how the science-religion relationship can be understood:

• Different sciences - different relationships

• A ‘special relationship’?

• The metaphor of the maps

To explore how the debate has developed in recent years go to key figures and developments in the science-religion debate.

To explore the character of the two types of subject see critical realism in science and religion

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Source: God, Humanity and the Cosmos  (T&T Clark, 1999)