ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the science religion dialogue and focuses on the relevance of St Maximus' writings and extents Augustine's work to the science-religion dialogue in general. Most modern scholars consider that Augustine first introduced the idea of nature as a "book of God" when he argued that creation is essentially good when fighting the Manichaean claim that the material world is intrinsically evil. St Maximus Confessor addressed the Manichaean question of the intrinsic evil of material world shortly after Augustine's time. Most academic scientific settings describe the Bacon's model as related to that taught by the modern scientist Stephen Jay Gould, which is called the "non-overlapping magesteria" or NOMA model. St Maximus presents a broad perspective on the law of nature that reaches beyond conventional modern thinking on the issue.
