Introduction : the background to a scientific theology
1. legitimacy of a scientific theology
2. approach to be adopted
3. construction of nature
4. Christian doctrine of creation
5. Implications of a Christian doctrine of creation
6. purpose and place of natural theology
7. Rationality and knowledge in theology and the natural sciences
8. Natural theology and the trans-traditional rationality of the Christian tradition
9. foundations of realism in the natural sciences
10. Critical realism : engaging with a stratified reality
11. encounter with reality : the contours of a scientific theology
12. legitimacy of theory within a scientific theology
13. representation of reality in a scientific theology
14. place of explanation in a scientific theology
15. place of metaphysics in a scientific theology.
