This chapter outlines the author’s personal reflections (as a “scientist-theologian”) on what may be gained for the science-and-religion field in the emergence of SET, and what remains to be achieved. Peter Harrison’s own Gifford Lectures, published in 2015 as Territories of Science and Religion, have become a touchstone for those who seek to de-essentialise science and religion in the hope of emphasising the dynamic and historically-contingent nature of the categories of “science” and “religion”. It is also hard to overlook the way that this inter-disciplinary union has been dominated by theological interests, many of which were inescapably apologetic in nature: attempts to defend religious concerns against the perceived onslaught of the sciences, and to carve out some territory for “religion” in a “science”-dominated landscape.
