Summary of Published Critical Notice of Rolston, Science and Religion Reissued 2006, see below.

Ian Barbour, the leading world authority in science and religion, says of Science and Religion: "This is a remarkable book and I predict its widespread use. ... This first rate book can be highly recommended to anyone seeking access to the best of recent thought."

Karl Peters, former editor of Zygon, the leading journal in the field, says that Rolston's is "the best current comprehensive treatment of science and religion," written with "particular genius," "an excellent text that should be studied by every seminary student and graduate student in religious studies who wishes to relate religious thinking to the contemporary sciences." He adds that it "is to be placed alongside Ian G. Barbour's Issues in Science and Religion and A. R. Peacocke's Creation and the World of Science." The former has been the classical treatment for a quarter of a century; the latter is the recent Bampton Lectures at Cambridge University. That lecture series in England and the Gifford Lectures in the Scottish universities are the most prominent in the world in this field, and Barbour has recently delivered the Gifford lectures.

Langdon Gilkey, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and one of the best known theologians in the world, says of Science and Religion, "It is, I think, the finest volume in this field to date."

Charles Birch, professor of biological science at the University of Sydney, Australia, winner of the Templeton Prize and one of the most eminent biologists in the world, says that Science and Religion is "quite the best on that subject."

Donald Musser, in a critical review for The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, says, "Rolston ... has produced a book that rivals Ian Barbour's Issues in Science and Religion as the best in the field. ... I highly recommend this book ... it will become the standard in the field."

Frederick Ferré, a leading philosopher of religion, says, "This book is a delight. ... It is up to the minute on methodological developments, ... clear and responsible.... Everyone in the field will need to work with this text."

John H. Wright, of the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, says, in Theological Studies, that Science and Religion is "an extraordinarily complete basic treatment."

Robert J. Russell, Director of the Center for the Study of Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, says, "I value this work greatly for attempting and, by and large, succeeding at bringing science and religion into a meaningful and creative relationship. ... Important reading for anyone wanting to wrestle seriously with science and religion." The book was the focus fall semester 1988 of a special course (ST 1105) coordinated by that center involving the Graduate Theological Union and a dozen theological seminaries and various scientific experts in the Berkeley and San Francisco Bay area. The book also resulted in Rolston's being named to the Distinguished Russell Fellowship in the Bay Area and a research conference on his work, mentioned earlier.

John F. Haught, a leading theologian at Georgetown University, says that Science and Religion is "a monumental work, one deserving of widespread usage by theologians and scientists alike. Carefully organized and beautifully written, ... the book is truly outstanding. One may safely predict that it will enrich discussion of science and religion for many years to come."

David Foxgrover, in a review for the Christian Century, says that Science and Religion is "a superb and subtle book that will become a standard in the field. ... It stands on its own as a creative attempt to deal with one of the 20th century's central theological issues."

Donald W. Shriver, president of Union Theological Seminary, New York, says that Science and Religion is "one of the most important books I have read in years and absolutely the best on science and religion that I have ever read."

Joseph Pickle, in Zygon, says that Science and Religion is "notable for its breadth and depth ...filled with admirably argued and powerfully presented treatments of critical issues. ... the most substantial argument for a position on the relationship of science and religion that is eminently worth arguing ... finely nuanced and carefully developed."

John J. Compton, a philosopher at Vanderbilt University, in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, says, Science and Religion "marvelously combines the elements needed for any thoughtful examination of the intersections of science and religion today--it is comprehensive ... it is rich in scientific and theological detail, it is methodologically self-aware and circumspect at every point, both in respect of the sciences and religious thought and in respect to its own developing argument, and it has a developing argument, inspired by a powerful constructive vision of the wholeness of the human endeavor to understand, of which, it is argued, the sciences and religious reflection form complementary parts. And as sheer grace for the reader, the book is engagingly and trenchantly written, perfused with insightful epigram, a text to delight as well as to illumine. ... This is a robust challenge (made) with rare erudition and skill."

Frank Brown, a philosopher at the University of North Carolina, in the Journal of Religion, says, "Rolston achieved his objectives with this book in exploring how the mind accepts both scientific and nonscientific logic. Therefore I highly recommend this book for those interested in religious inquiry through the lens of the academic [scientific] disciplines."

Donald A. Henson, in the American Philosophical Association's Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, says: "Rolston's study is an expansive, penetrating survey of the sciences, exploring not only their methodologies and implicit philosophical assumptions, but examining as well the particular claims within these disciplines which appear incompatible with Western theistic belief. ... Rolston explores the implications for religious beliefs of such diverse theories as relativity and quantum mechanics, Darwinian evolution and natural selection, behaviorism, and Freudian psychoanalysis. ... Rolston displays a solid grasp of this complex material, and he carefully documents his study with extensive and illuminating references. ... Rolston's work is an insightful, thought-provoking study which should be read by serious students of religion and theology."

E. J. McCullough, a Canadian philosopher, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews says that Science and Religion is "a penetrating and provocative book. It can be read by both scientific and religious specialist with great profit. It is also accessible to a general audience. Rolston ... merits his presence in long and distinguished philosophical company."

Rolston's Science and Religion has stimulated a book-length response to the concept of nature which he develops, with particular reference to respect for life and animal suffering. Jay B. McDaniel, God and Pelicans: A Theology of Respect for Life takes his title and frames his arguments from an example from natural history explored by Rolston in Chapter 3 of Science and Religion.

Science and Religion was published simultaneously by Random House.
Science and Religion was reprinted by McGraw Hill, 1989.

Science and Religion was reprinted by Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Science and Religion was reissued by Templeton Foundation Press, 2006, a 20th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Rolston.
ISBN 978-1-59947-099-3 See: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37691

Science and Religion: An Introduction for Youth, was published by Elm Hill, a Division of Harper Collins in 2019. ISBN 978-1-595559937

See: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/194537