The Dialogue Between Religion and Science:Challenges and Future Directions: Proceedings of the Third Annual Goshen Conference on Religion and Science

The yearly Goshen Conference on Religion and Science was established to explore ways of bridging the often-perceived gap between religion and science. Each year the conference features one primary speaker who presents lectures and also interacts in dialogue with conference participants.

This series of three lectures is devoted to an exploration of three challenges for the current dialogue between science and religion. Hermeneutics, the practice and theory of interpretation and understanding, deals with questions of interpreting texts and data and examines the role and use of language in religion as well as in science.

Feminist research analyzes the consequences of the interplay of masculine, feminine, and gender typologies in religion and science. The third lecture argues that postmodernism in its most constructive form shares the best fruits of modernity, especially of the Enlightenment, while at the same time avoiding some of its most serious mistakes.

A conclusion offers an outline of constructive suggestions and critical observations concerning the future of this dialogue.