Page |38 eliminates the possibility of the * For a discussion of these distinctions refinements to religious views of human between different forms of nature that the conversation between phenomenology, see Paul Ricoeur, religion and science can offer. Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences Conclusion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 63-100. My argument has been that a de revived religious humanism can come Will Deming, Paul on Marriage and about through the dialogue between Celibacy (Cambridge: Cambridge religion and science, particularly University Press, 1995). Troels Engbert- between religion and the psychological Perdersen, Paul and the Stoics sciences. I have illustrated this with the (Louisville, KY,: Westminster John issue of love in Christianity. I believe Knox, 2000). my argument could be illustrated with . . . other religions. especially the Abrahamic ‘Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (New religions of Judaism and Islam. As Wane Random House, 1221), Bk: WII, Aristotle’s influence created a kind of ch. 10. religious humanism in these religions in > The Interpreter’s Bible: Luke and John, the past, the broader dialogue between Vol. 8 (Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, science and religion may be able to do 1952), p. 465. this for them in the future. But the contributions will not ° Peter Brown, Aug ashe Of Bip 0. simply flow from science to religion. (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, Even in this short essay, a question for LOS2).p: 178. science to investigate has arisen. It is "Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle’s this: how do religious and metaphysical Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., beliefs extend the impulse of natural kin 2003) altruism, if at all? This goes beyond the issue of the relation of religion to health. ‘Edward Scribner Ames, Religion It raises the question of the relation of (Chicago: Holt, 1929). religion to expansive love for the distant 9 other. This is a good question that Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros comes from taki