The physicist and theologian Robert John Russell has developed a very detailed and interesting path model of the possible relations between science and religion, which will be critically presented in this chapter. The model is based on the presuppositions of the theories of Ian G. Barbour and Arthur Peacocke; that is, on a critical realism employing a parallel hermeneutical approach to both science and religion, and also on the assumption of a hierarchy of sciences. Within this framework, Russell identifies eight pathways of interaction. Is this presentation complete? Can one uphold these presuppositions against a continental-
European horizon of understanding, involving a potentially different epistemological framework? What happens to the model when one tries to take the humanities more into account? This chapter seeks to
constructively engage with this Russell’s model in order to address these challenges.
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