Each volume paged continously and issued in two parts.

V.1-2 are in part the result of a conference with the title Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue held at Redeemer University College in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Up to 1700. pt. 1. On the concept and history of philosophical religions / C. Fraenckel -- Nature and scripture / P. Bright -- Natural knowledge and textual meaning in Augustine's interpretation of Genesis / K.J. Howell -- Entering "this sublime and blessed amphitheatre" / P.M. Bowers -- Interpreting the books of nature and Scripture in medieval and early modern thought / C. Methuen -- Thomas Aquinas on science, sacra doctrina, and creation / W.E. Carroll -- Science and theodicy in Qur an 2:6/7 / R.G. Morrison -- The hermeneutics of nature and Scripture in early modern science and theology / K.J. Howell -- The two books and Adamic knowledge / J.J. Bono Herneutics and natural knowledge in the Reformers / P. Harrison -- pt. 2. God, Scripture and the rise of modern science (1200-1700) / L.M. van der Meer, R.J. Oosterhoff -- Sacred philodophy, secualr theology / K.M. Crowther -- "Horrible and blasphemous" / Eric Jorink -- Thomas Burnet, biblical idiom, and seventeenth-century theories of the earth / K.V. Magruder -- "Not in the language of the astronomers" / S.D. Snobelen -- Creation, time, and biblical hermeneutics in early modern Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky -- Tycho Brahe, Caspar Peucer, and Christoph Rothmann on cosmology and the Bible / M.A. Granada -- Kepler and Melanchton on the biblical arguments against Copernicanism / P. Barker -- The debate of the motion of the earth in the Dutch republic in 1650s / R.H. Vermij -- The biblical argument against Copernicanism and the limitation of biblical authority / M.A. Finocchiaro -- "Our mathematicians have learned and verified this" / V.R. Remmert -- "In the language of men" / S.D. Snobelen.

v. 2. 1700-present. pt. 1. Biblical hermeneutics and the sciences, 1700-1900 / S. Mandelbrote -- Biblcial interpretation in the light of the interpretation of nature, 1650-1900 / W. Yarchin -- Jonathan Edwards and the discourses of nature / R.E. Brown -- Georges Cuvier and the use of Scripture in geology / J.M. van der Meer -- Ethnology and the "two books" / G. Blair Nelson -- Interpreting Scripture, assimilating science / R. England -- Scriptural facts and scientific theories / R. England -- The will to meaning / B. Kleeberg -- pt. 2. Dutch Calvinists and Darwinism, 1900-1960 / Rob P.W. Visser -- Twin sisters with a changing character / G. Harinck -- The problem of faith and scientific knowledge in Russian religious thought of the ninetweenth-twentieth centuries / A.V. Nesteruk -- Original sin, biblical hermeneutics, and the science of evolution / J.M. Ashley -0- Galileo and the garden of Eden / E.B. Davis, E. Chmielewski -- A post-Woorld War II response to Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann / H. Wijmandus de Kniff -- The exegesis of science in twentieth century Arabic interpretations of the Qur an / Marwa Elshakry -- Judaism and the religious crisis of modern science / Menachem Fisch.