Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Theological perspectives. Every good and perfect gift is from above: Creation ex nihilo before nature and culture / Simon Oliver ; We are all God's vocabulary: The idea of creation as a speech-act of the trinitarian God and its significance for the dialogue between theology and sciences / Christoph Schwebel ; Why should free scientific inquiry matter to faith?: The case of John Calvin / Randall C. Zachman ; Not knowing creation / Andrew B. Torrance -- Biblical and historical perspectives. Origins in Genesis: Claims of an ancient text in a modern scientific world / John H. Walton ; How did Genesis become a problem?: On the hermeneutics of natural science / Francis Watson ; Knowing creation in the light of Job and astrobiology / William P. Brown ; Knowing and being known: Interpersonal cognition and the knowledge of God in Paul's letters / Susan Grove Eastman -- Philosophical perspectives. Sanctifying matter / Marilyn McCord Adams ; The vision of the hazelnut / Peter van Inwagen ; Are we hardwired to believe in God?: Natural signs for God, evolution, and the sensus divinitatis / Stephen Evans ; Knowing nature: Aristotle, God, and the quantum / Robert C. Koons -- Scientific perspectives. Knowing nature: Beyond the false dilemma of reduction or emergence / William M. R. Simpson ; Creation, providence, and evolution / Denis R. Alexander ; The trees of the field shall clap their hands (Isaiah 55:12): What does it mean to say that a tree praises God? / Mark Harris ; The science-and-religion delusion: Towards a theology of science / Tom McLeish.