For further reading
The works that follow are recommended as accessible and engaging discussions of the general field of the natural sciences and Christian theology. Readers wanting a specific engagement with Christian theology – which is of considerable importance to this field – might enjoy my own introduction to its themes: Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction. 6th edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
Science and theology: some core reading
Brooke, John Hedley, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Coulson, C. A., Science and Christian Belief. London: Oxford University Press, 1955.
McGrath, Alister E., Inventing the Universe: Why We Can’t Stop Talking about Science, Faith, and God. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015.
McGrath, Alister E., Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.
McLeish, Tom, Faith and Wisdom in Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Numbers, Ronald L. (ed.), Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Polkinghorne, John, One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology. London: SPCK, 1986.
Polkinghorne, John, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship. London: SPCK, 2007.
Sacks, Jonathan, The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
Steane, Andrew, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Science and theology: more specialist reading
Barbour, Ian G., Issues in Science and Religion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Barbour, Ian G., Myths, Models and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
Brown, Warren S., Nancey C. Murphy and H. Newton Malony (eds), Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.
Collins, Francis S., The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Dear, Peter R., The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Dixon, Thomas, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Dubay, Thomas, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999.
Gingerich, Owen, God’s Universe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Harrison, Peter, The Territories of Science and Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Hicks, Joshua A. and Clay Routledge (eds), The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies. New York: Springer, 2013.
Kragh, Helge, Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe: A History of Cosmology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
McGrath, Alister E., Dawkins’ God: From the Selfish Gene to the God Delusion. 2nd edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
McGrath, Alister E., A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.
Mascall, Eric L., Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on Their Relations. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1956.
Plantinga, Alvin, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Polkinghorne, John, Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker. London: SPCK, 1994.
Polkinghorne, John, Science and Creation: The Search for Understanding. London: SPCK, 1988.
Polkinghorne, John, Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Ruse, Michael, Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Smith, Christian, Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Stump, J. B. and Alan G. Padgett (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Torrance, Thomas F., The Ground and Grammar of Theology. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1980.
Torrance, Thomas F., Theological Science. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Torrance, Thomas F., Transformation and Convergence in the Frame of Knowledge. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984.
Trigg, Roger, Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2015.
Ward, Keith, More Than Matter: Is Matter All We Really Are? Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2010.