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eliminates the possibility of the refinements to religious views of human nature that the conversation between religion and science can offer. Conclusion My argument has been that a revived religious humanism can come about through the dialogue between religion and science, particularly between religion and the psychological sciences. I have illustrated this with the issue of love in Christianity. I believe my argument could be illustrated with other religions, especially the Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Islam. As Aristotle’s influence created a kind of religious humanism in these religions in the past, the broader dialogue between science and religion may be able to do this for them in the future. But the contributions will not simply flow from science to religion. Even in this short essay, a question for science to investigate has arisen. It is this: how do religious and metaphysical beliefs extend the impulse of natural kin altruism, if at all? This goes beyond the issue of the relation of religion to health. It raises the question of the relation of religion to expansive love for the distant other. This is a good question that comes from taking the claims of religion seriously and an example of how religion can continue to feed and challenge scientific inquiry. References ' Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006); Daniel Dennett, Breaking the God Spell (New York, NY.: Viking, 2006); Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation (NY.; Alfred Knopf, 2006); Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great (NY.: Twelve, 2007). Page |38 * For a discussion of these distinctions between different forms of phenomenology, see Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 63-100. > Will Deming, Paul on Marriage and Celibacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Troels Engbert- Perdersen, Paul and the Stoics (Louisville, KY,: Westminster John Knox, 2000). “Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (New York: Random House, 1941), Bk. VIII, ch. 10. > The Interpreter’s Bible: Luke and John, Vol. 8 (Nashville, TN.: Abingdon Press, 1952), p. 465. ° Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, 1969), p. 178. "Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle’s Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) ‘Edward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929). * Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (Philadelphia, PA.: Westminster Press, 1953). 'Tbid., p. 57, 121-122. "Tbid., p. 101. "William Hamilton, “The Genetical Evolution of Social Behavior, IT” Journal of Theoretical Biology 7 (1964), pp. 17-52. "Ronald Fisher and Robert Trivers, “Parental Investment and Sexual Selection,” B. Campbell (ed.), Sexual HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021284