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When Pannenberg published Theology and the Philosophy of Science in German in 1973, there was no eld of study called ‘religion and science’. It is hard to remember that fact today, when religion–science discussion has become the academic specialisation, the daily bread and butter, for hundreds of scholars around the world. I well remember looking for a mentor in 1979 who specialised in questions of rationality and religious belief and who could guide my doctoral work on ‘explanation from physics to theology’. The writings of T. F . Torrance in Scotland on theology and science were certainly well known, and yet I had become deeply convinced that his Barthian approach was not the correct route to take. Although there were a few scholars working in the eld, there were precious few who could guide an inquiry of this kind. The answer was unanimous among those whom I sought out for counsel: only Wolfhart Pannenberg could really mentor the thesis in question

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