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Re-ordering nature : theology, society, and the new genetics / edited by Celia Deane-Drummond, Bronislaw Szerszynski (with Robin Grove-White).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2003.Description: xiv, 368 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0567088960
  • 0567088782 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 241/.64957 22
LOC classification:
  • QH438.7 .R4 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Genetically modified theology: the religious dimensions of public concerns about agricultural biotechnology / Celia Deane-Drummond, Robin Grove-White, and Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Response to chapter 1 / Christopher Southgate -- Detracting from divine power? Religious belief and the appraisal of new technologies / John Hedley Brooke -- Response to chapter 2 / Arthur Peacocke -- Burke, Barth and biotechnology: on preferring the Sabbath to the sublime: some preliminary thoughts / Michael Banner -- Response to chapter 3: Possums on the pill: how to save nature / Michael J. Reiss -- 'Behold I have set the land before you' (Deut. 1.8): Christian ethics, GM foods, and the culture of modern farming / Michael S. Northcott -- Response to chapter 4: Nature to order: but which nature and whose order? / Peter Scott -- Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur Peacocke -- Is it right to move genes between species? A theological perspective / Michael J. Reiss -- Playing dice with creation: how risky should the new genetics be? / Donald M. Bruce -- Thinking about biotechnology: towards a theory of just experimentation / Stephen R.L. Clark -- 'Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should': young people's responses to biotechnology / Mairi Levitt -- At reason's end: the inoperative liturgy of risk society / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Interpreting public concerns about GMOs: questions of meaning / Brian Wynne -- Re-ordering means and ends: Ellul and the new genetics / Jacqui Stewart -- Nature, technology and the rule of God: (en)countering the disgracing of nature / Peter Scott -- Aquinas, wisdom ethics and the new genetics / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Re-ordering nature: a postscript / Bronislaw Szerszynski and Celia Deane-Drummond.
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Including bibliographical references (p. 325-350) and indexes.

Genetically modified theology: the religious dimensions of public concerns about agricultural biotechnology / Celia Deane-Drummond, Robin Grove-White, and Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Response to chapter 1 / Christopher Southgate -- Detracting from divine power? Religious belief and the appraisal of new technologies / John Hedley Brooke -- Response to chapter 2 / Arthur Peacocke -- Burke, Barth and biotechnology: on preferring the Sabbath to the sublime: some preliminary thoughts / Michael Banner -- Response to chapter 3: Possums on the pill: how to save nature / Michael J. Reiss -- 'Behold I have set the land before you' (Deut. 1.8): Christian ethics, GM foods, and the culture of modern farming / Michael S. Northcott -- Response to chapter 4: Nature to order: but which nature and whose order? / Peter Scott -- Relating genetics to theology on the map of scientific knowledge / Arthur Peacocke -- Is it right to move genes between species? A theological perspective / Michael J. Reiss -- Playing dice with creation: how risky should the new genetics be? / Donald M. Bruce -- Thinking about biotechnology: towards a theory of just experimentation / Stephen R.L. Clark -- 'Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should': young people's responses to biotechnology / Mairi Levitt -- At reason's end: the inoperative liturgy of risk society / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Interpreting public concerns about GMOs: questions of meaning / Brian Wynne -- Re-ordering means and ends: Ellul and the new genetics / Jacqui Stewart -- Nature, technology and the rule of God: (en)countering the disgracing of nature / Peter Scott -- Aquinas, wisdom ethics and the new genetics / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Re-ordering nature: a postscript / Bronislaw Szerszynski and Celia Deane-Drummond.

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