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'This exceptional book is not simply a laudable historical essay on past times. It will acquire a larger and special significance for all who philosophise about science and religion, exposing the many dangers of oversimplification. It will be of special interest to historians and philosophers of religion as well as historians and philosophers of science.' John Hedley Brooke, Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford 'Naturalism in the Christian Imagination is a very interesting, well-researched book built around a central, profound question: 'What bearing should religious convictions have on how phenomena in nature are understood and explained?' This question touches on some of the deepest issues in the study of science and religion, and could be answered in a variety of ways. Peter Jordan argues that it is best answered through a series of grounded historical studies focused on early modern England. That place and time, he contends, provides us with 'flesh-and-blood' thinkers grappling with the problem - who are more helpful than purely philosophical or theological analysis. As well as preventing loose speculation, this kind of historical analysis also helps foreground one of Jordan's primary concerns: how answers to this guiding question should change the way people live their lives in the here and now. The book asks important things and answers them in very interesting ways. The focus on how intellectual issues of providence can affect actual life and practice today will be of great interest to philosophers as well as historians of science.' Matthew Stanley, New York University

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Peter N. Jordan earned a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Cornell University and then a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Queensland. He is now a research fellow of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford, where he is the primary researcher on the 'Intellectual World of John Templeton' project, sponsored by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is also Director of Grants and Research at Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford (SCIO). He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

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