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Author : Michael J. Dodds
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813219899
Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.
Author : Sarah Lane Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108476515
Challenges theological models of divine action that locate God's activity in human mind. Emphasizes God's relationship with all of nature.
Author : Jeffrey Koperski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429639586
A longstanding question at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology is how God might act, or not, when governing the universe. Many believe that determinism would prevent God from acting at all, since to do so would require violating the laws of nature. However, when a robust view of these laws is coupled with the kind of determinism now used in dynamics, a new model of divine action emerges. This book presents a new approach to divine action beyond the current focus on quantum mechanics and esoteric gaps in the causal order. It bases this approach on two general points. First, that there are laws of nature is not merely a metaphor. Second, laws and physical determinism are now understood in mathematically precise ways that have important implications for metaphysics. The explication of these two claims shows not only that nonviolationist divine action is possible, but there is considerably more freedom available for God to act than current models allow. By bringing a philosophical perspective to an issue often dominated by theologians and scientists, this text redresses an imbalance in the discussion around divine action. It will, therefore, be of keen interest to scholars of Philosophy and Religion, the Philosophy of Science, and Theology.
Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0005992052
Author : Harry Lee Poe,Jimmy H. Davis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830839544
Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God's interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.
Author : Joseph Seckbach,Richard Gordon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812834331
The debate between divine action, or faith, and natural selection, or science, is garnering tremendous interest. This book ventures well beyond the usual, contrasting American Protestant and atheistic points of view, and also includes the perspectives of Jews, Muslims, and Roman Catholics. It contains arguments from the various proponents of intelligent design, creationism, and Darwinism, and also covers the sensitive issue of how to incorporate evolution into the secondary school biology curriculum. Comprising contributions from prominent, award-winning authors, the book also contains dialogs following each chapter to provide extra stimulus to the readers and a full picture of this ?hot? topic, which delves into the fundamentals of science and religion.
Author : Nicholas Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521524164
A radical critique of current attempts to reconcile natural sciences with the concept of divine action.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451416046
In Adventures in the Spirit, respected and influential theologian Philip Clayton argues that two major intellectual movements of our day-panentheism and emergence-are converging and that together they offer exciting new vistas for theological reflection. On the one hand, over the last decades many theologians have been re-conceiving the God-world relation panentheistically, affirming a radical indwelling of God within the world and the world within God. On the other hand, scientists have begun to abandon the reductionist ideology that characterized much of the modern period, with a new emphasis on emergence. Their study of how new, novel structures and entities arise throughout the evolutionary process yields a much more open-ended, holistic vision of reality, Clayton argues.
Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Templeton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1599471302
In Divine Action, Keith Ward, a philosopher, theologian, and scholar, examines the role of Divine operation and Divine providence in a world of scientific law and intelligibility. Defending the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, Ward is equally concerned with the "big questions" in science and religion-those concerning existence, purpose, and inner process. He reflects on the recent resurgence of naturalism in philosophy alongside an analysis of freedom and necessity, the origins of suffering, constraints of creation, prayer as participation in Divine action, miracles as epiphanies of the spirit, Divine nature and human nature, and redemption. With rigorous scientific research and scholarship and attention to faith traditions in addition to Christianity, Keith Ward presents an intellectual counterpoint to today's antispirituality arguments. In studying what is involved in the idea of creation and particular Divine actions, he offers a rationale for Divine operation as a continuous conversation in the natural world. Book jacket.
Author : Mariusz Tabaczek
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268108762
Divine Action and Emergence puts the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition in conversation with current philosophy and theology. As a middle path between classical theism and pantheism, the panentheistic turn in the twentieth century has been described as a “quiet revolution.” Today, in fact, many theologians hold that the world is “in” God (who, at the same time, is more than the world). Panentheism has been especially influential in the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences. Many have seen panentheism as compatible with emergentism, and thus have brought the two together in developing models of divine action that do not abrogate the regularities of processes of the natural world. In Divine Action and Emergence, Mariusz Tabaczek argues that, as inspiring and intriguing as emergentist panentheism is, it requires deeper examination. He begins by looking at the wonder of emergence (which calls into question the overly reductionist attitude in natural science) and by reflecting philosophically on emergence theory in light of classical and new Aristotelianism. Moving in a theological direction, Tabaczek then offers a critical evaluation of emergentist panentheism and a constructive proposal for how to reinterpret the idea of divine action as inspired by the theory of emergence with reference to the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of God’s action in the universe. Through a unique interdisciplinary approach that puts theology and the natural sciences into a dialogue through philosophy, Divine Action and Emergence offers a comprehensive evaluation of panentheism. It then puts forward an original reinterpretation of emergence theory, thus setting forth a constructive proposal for reinterpreting the concept of divine action that is currently espoused by emergence theory. It will appeal to scholars of theology and philosophy, those who work in the area of theology and science, those interested in emergence theory or panentheism, and finally those who are interested in the dialogue between the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition and contemporary philosophy and theology.
Author : Thomas V. Morris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501746123
The past three decades have seen a vigorous upsurge of interest in the philosophy of religion. Nevertheless, a relatively narrow range of topics has dominated the field. This ground-breaking volume, the effort of fifteen leading American philosophers of religion, represents a new movement in Anglo-American philosophical theology; it introduces important topics and fresh approaches to philosophical theology by centering its discussion on the relationship between God and the created universe.
Author : Denis Edwards
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451406498
From providence and miracles to resurrection and intercessory prayer, Edwards shows how a basically noninterventionist model of divine action does justice to the universe as we know and also to central convictions of Christian faith about the goodness of God, the promises of God, and the fulfillment of creation. Here is wonderfully lucid theology supporting an excitement of how God is at work in the universe.
Author : John Sanders,Klaus Von Stosch
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506791273
Author : Fount LeRon Shults,Nancey C. Murphy,Robert John Russell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004177871
One of the most important and controversial themes in the contemporary dialogue among scientists and Christian theologians is the issue of "divine action" in the world. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on this topic, which emerged out of the Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action project, co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and Natural Science. This multi-year collaboration involved over 50 authors meeting at five international conferences. The essays collected here demonstrate the pervasive role of philosophy in this dialogue.
Author : Robert J. Russell,Specola vaticana,Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015056493086
Quantum Mechanics, a collection of fifteen essays, explores the creative interaction among quantum physics, philosophy, and theology. This fine collection presents the results of the fifth international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome, and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The overarching goal of these conferences is to support the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing theoretical research in the natural sciences. In the first section of this collection, contributors examine scientific and historical context. Section two features essays covering a wide range of philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. The final set of essays explores the theological implications of quantum theory. Abner Shimony, Raymond Y. Chiao, Michael Berry, Ernan McMullin, William R. Stoeger, S.J., James T. Cushing, Jeremy Butterfield, Michael Redhead, Chris Clarke, John Polkinghorne, Michael Heller, Philip Clayton, Thomas F. Tracy, George F.R. Ellis, and Robert John Russell all contributed essays to this volume.