Reconstructing Nature

This book first published in the U.K. by T&T Clark expands on the authors' prestigious Glasgow Gifford Lectures of 1995-6. Brooke and Cantor herein examine the many different ways in which the relationship between science and religion has been presented throughout history. They contend that in fact neither science nor religion is reducible to some timeless essence -- and they deftly criticize the various master-narratives that have been put forward in support of such essentialist theses.