Faith, Science and UnderstandingYale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 224 In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university (it is part of the human search for truth) and discusses the role of revelation in religion (it is a record of experience and not the communication of unchallengeable propositions). Throughout his thought-provoking conversation, Polkinghorne speaks with an honesty and openness that derives from his many years of experience in scientific research. A central concern of Polkinghorne’s collection of writings is to reconcile what science can say about the processes of the universe with theology’s belief in a God active within creation. The author examines two related concepts in depth. The first is the divine self-limitation involved in creation that leads to an important reappraisal of the traditional claim that God does not act as a cause among causes. The other is the nature of time and God’s involvement with it, an issue that Polkinghorne shows can link metascience and theological understandings. In the final section of the book, the author reviews three centuries of the science and theology debate and assesses the work of major contemporary contributors to the discussion: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Torrance, and Paul Davies. He also considers why the science-theology discussion has for several centuries been a particular preoccupation of the English. |
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... Sciences 156 ; 2 Thomas Torrance's Engagement with the Natural Sciences 173 ; 3 Paul Davies ' Engagement with Theology 186 NINE . Science and Theology in England Index 155 195 207 Preface my After I had written a trilogy of short X.
... science and theology studies: Gifford Lectures, Science and Christian Belief (in the United States, The Faith of a Physicist); a survey of the writings of scientist-theologians, Scientists as Theologians; my Terry Lectures, Belief in ...
John Polkinghorne. the search for truth attained by the formation and evaluation of motivated beliefs. The invitation to give the Firth Lectures at the Univer- sity of Nottingham gave me the opportunity to reflect on the place of theology ...
... science and theology. First, critical realism is defended in the face of the apparent disconti- nuity involved in moving from Newton's inverse square law of gravitation to Einstein's geometry of curved space. The con- clusion is that it ...
... theory. Part 2 of the book is concerned with what was the domi- nant issue in the science and theology debate in the 1990s: How we may conceive of divine agency in a way that respects the integrity of the scientific account of the ...
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II DIVINE AGENCY | 103 |
III SIGNIFICANT THINKERS | 153 |
NINE Science and Theology in England | 195 |
Index | 207 |