Peter Harrison (historian)
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Main interests | History of the relationship between religion and science |
Peter D. Harrison
Career
Peter Harrison holds a DLitt from the
Writings
Harrison is best known for a number of influential writings on religion and the origins of modern science. He has argued that changing approaches to the interpretation of the Bible had a significant impact on the development of modern science. He has also suggested that the biblical story of the
Similarly, he also contends that the concept of
His Bampton Lectures, published as ''Some New World'' (2024) offer a new genealogy of secular modernity. Part of the argument is that the idea of a natural/supernatural dichotomy is a distinctive and unique feature of Western secular thought. This historically contingent distinction, he proposes, might be a key premise of contemporary naturalism but is not, on most traditional understandings, requisite for religious commitment itself.
Selected publications
- Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 9781009477215
- After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Theology and Philosophy'. with ISBN 1316517926.
- New Directions in Theology and Science: Beyond Dialogue. with Paul Tyson, Routledge, 2022. ISBN 1032073225.
- Science Without God? Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism. with Jon Roberts, Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780198834588.
- Narratives of Secularization. Routledge 2018. ISBN 978-1138563568.
- The Territories of Science and Religion. ISBN 978-0226184487. The Gifford Lectures. Read an excerpt.
- Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science. with ISBN 978-0-226-31783-0.
- The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion. ISBN 978-0-521-71251-4.
- The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. ISBN 0-521-87559-5.
- The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science. ISBN 0-521-00096-3.
- 'Religion' and the religions in the English Enlightenment. ISBN 0-521-89293-7.
References
- ^ Who's Who entry
- ^ "Career History". uq.academia.au. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ 2010-2011 Gifford Lecture Archives from The University of Edinburgh
- ^ "2015 Aldersgate Prize Awarded to Australian Laureate Fellow".
- ^ "Historian and neuroscientist are UQ's new Australian Laureate Fellows". University of Queensland. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Rethinking Relations Between Science and Religion". University of Oxford. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
- ^ Harrison, Peter (17 January 2018). "An Eccentric Tradition: The Paradox of "Western Values"". ABC Religion & Ethics. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Harrison, Peter. "'I Believe Because It Is Absurd': The Enlightenment Invention of Tertullian's Credo". Church History 86.2 (2017): 339-364.
External links
- Profile at the University of Queensland