New Directions in Theology and Science

Peter Harrison is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities, University of Queensland. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow who has published extensively in the field of intellectual history with a focus on the philosophical, scientific and religious thought of the early modern period. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Science. His six books include The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and The Territories of Science and Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2015), based on his 2011 Gifford Lectures and winner of the Aldersgate Prize.Paul Tyson is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His scholarship works across the sociology of knowledge and philosophical theology with a particular interest in applied theological metaphysics and applied theological epistemology in a contemporary Christian NeoPlatonist register. His books include: Returning to Reality (Cascade, 2014); Seven Brief Lessons on Magic (Cascade, 2019); Theology and Climate Change (Routledge, 2021).