Ian Barbour

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Ian Graeme Barbour (b. 1923 Beijing, China) is an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion.

He received his B.S. in physics from Swarthmore College, his M.S. in physics from Duke University in 1946, and a Ph.D. in physics from University of Chicago in 1950.

He earned a B.D. in 1956 from Yale University's Divinity School. Barbour taught for many years at Carleton College with appointments as professor of religion and as Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. He has held emeritus honors there since 1986.

Barbour gave the Gifford lectures from 1989 – 1991 at the University of Aberdeen. These lectures yielded the widely recognized text, Religion in an Age of Science. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1999 for Progress in Religion in recognition of his efforts to create a dialogue between the worlds of science and religion.

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  • Christianity & the Scientists (1960)
  • Science & Religion (1968)
  • Science & Secularity (1970)
  • Myths, Models and Paradigms (1974), ISBN 0-334-01037-3
  • Religion in an Age of Science (1990), ISBN 0-06-060383-6
  • Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (1997) ISBN 0-06-060938-9 (revised and expanded version of Religion in an Age of Science)
  • When Science Meets Religion, (2000), ISBN 0-06-060381-X
  • Nature, Human Nature, and God (2002), ISBN 0-281-05545-9
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