Issues In Science And Theology Creative Pluralism

Author : Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031062773

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Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism? by Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov Pdf

This book brings together selected papers from scientists, theologians and philosophers who took part in the 2021 conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology based in Madrid, Spain. The contributions constitute a cutting-edge resource for considering questions from interdisciplinary perspectives, covering both the crucial role played by images and models in our thinking and also the limitations which are inherent in these linguistic devices. Questions addressed include: Can this use of images and models generate a creative pluralism, enabling us to think outside the disciplinary silos which are a feature of academic discourse? Can they enable fruitful, synergistic, interdisciplinary conversations? This book will appeal to students and academics alike, particularly those working in the fields of philosophy, theology, ethics and the history of science.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031418006

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Issues in Science and Theology: Global Sustainability by Michael Fuller Pdf

Author : Ulf Görman,Willem Drees,Hubert Meisinger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567030894

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Creative Creatures by Ulf Görman,Willem Drees,Hubert Meisinger Pdf

Creative Creatures introduces a new theme into the growing field of science-and-theology by focusing on topics that have so far received little attention from scholars, namely ethical issues raised by the technological applications of scientific knowledge. The main themes explored include technology's impact on our worldview, morality, nature and culture in a technological society, along with discussions of artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

Author : John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119601555

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The Craft of Innovative Theology by John Allan Knight,Ian S. Markham Pdf

A comprehensive collection of resources showing students of theology how to prepare and write creative research-oriented material The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process delivers a thorough examination of the method of producing and writing creative theological theses and projects, explaining to students how to write elegant, innovative research-oriented articles. Through a collection of papers written by distinguished scholars, the text exhibits numerous examples of well-executed creative writing on topics as varied as theodicy and evolution, and artificial intelligence and baptism. Each article includes an introduction by the editor that serves to guide the student through the material and elucidates what makes the work stand out as exceptional. The articles are also annotated to assist with the appreciation of the methodology and style used by the author. The Craft of Innovative Theology assists theology students in improving their research writing to a point where they’ll be ready for a Masters’ thesis or PhD dissertation, and is an excellent resource for a research methods course in a graduate program. The works incorporated by the editors include: A thorough introduction to God and the Incarnation, including knowing God through religious pluralism An exploration of God and church, including racial stigma and the southern Baptist public discourse in the twentieth century, and the appropriateness of baptizing artificial intelligence A discussion of God and the world, including where humanity has come from and where we’re going, and the challenges posed by biological evolution to Christian theology A treatment of God and ethics, including sin and the faces of responsibility Perfect for students of postgraduate theology and research methods courses, The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process will also earn a place in the libraries of students in courses that prepare them to write a Masters’ thesis in theology or to begin shaping their PhD dissertation topic.

Author : Yiftach Fehige
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004685307

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Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology by Yiftach Fehige Pdf

Did Adam have a navel? Did Adam and Eve have sex? Is God merely a fictional character, like Superman? Without thought experiments like these, the field of science and religion would be severely impoverished. Thought experiments are exercises of the imagination. Like in many other disciplines, the imagination has not received the attention it deserves in theology. This book argues that the imagination must be taken seriously as an engine for progress. It offers a theology of the imagination that is consistent with, and goes beyond, existing discussions about pluralism at the intersection of science and religion.

Author : Piotr Roszak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031624988

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Overcoming Reductionism and Crafting a New Synthesis by Piotr Roszak Pdf

Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467456821

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Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen Pdf

Kärkkäinen’s acclaimed five-volume constructive theology abridged in one accessible volume Providing a new and unique way of doing theology in our pluralistic world, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen presents historic Christian doctrines in relation to the natural sciences and four other living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This textbook covers all systematic topics along with a host of current issues such as violence, colonialism, inclusivity, sociopolitical liberation, environmental care, and more. Accessible and student-friendly, Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World is the ideal text for exploring a theological vision at once rooted in the Christian tradition and constructive in its engagement with the complexities of our global, pluralistic world.

Author : Ian G. Barbour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 0334007372

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Issues in Science and Religion by Ian G. Barbour Pdf

Author : J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0802838685

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The Shaping of Rationality by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen Pdf

This book arises out of a deep fascination with the relationship between human intelligence and rationality, and with how our fragile but uniquely human ability to be rational invariably affects our everyday lives as well as our involvement with faith, theology, and the spectacular scientific achievements of our time. After carefully analyzing the notion of rationality and examining how the skill of rationality is being challenged by postmodern culture, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen argues that it is precisely the problem of rationality that holds the key to understanding the complex forces shaping the radically different domains of religion and science today.

Author : Christine Ledger,Stephen Pickard
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1920691022

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Creation and Complexity by Christine Ledger,Stephen Pickard Pdf

Creation and Complexity are two themes that draw the sciences and theology together. The remarkable advances of science in the modern period have opened up new knowledge and revealed ever deepening layers of complexity in the world from the cosmic macro level to the micro world of quantum. There seems no end to the rich tapestry of the cosmic order and process. A science of complexity has been spawned. The discoveries of the sciences have been matched in the twentieth century by a renewal in the doctrine of creation. Behind this lies a renaissance in trinitarian thinking which offers fresh insight into the dynamic of God in creation - past, present and future. The complexity of the triune God in creation find echoes in the rich complexity of the world uncovered by the contemporary sciences. This book explores the nature of complexity in God's creation.

Author : David Cheetham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198856665

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Creation and Religious Pluralism by David Cheetham Pdf

In the well-worn debates about religious pluralism and the theology of religions there have been many different rubrics used to account for, comprehend, or engage with the religious other. This book is chiefly a work of Christian theology and seeks to bring the doctrine of creation and the theology of religions into dialogue and in so doing it comes at things from a different direction than other works. It contains an extensive exploration of the doctrine of creation and asks how it might intervene distinctively in these discourses to produce a new conceptual and practical topography. It will consider inter-religious engagement from the perspective of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo that forms the dominant view in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. The book pays close consideration to anthropology (i.e. creaturehood), the quotidian and wisdom, the idea of 'sabbath, ' human action and work, and vivifying the immanent through a consideration of some representative phenomenologists. The book will develop these ideas in a more practical direction by considering sacraments and rituals in the public sphere as well as attempting to describe the kind of 'creational politics' that might bring traditions into dialogue. Whilst these themes challenge more conventional ways of considering relations between religions, such themes - because they are different from concerns commonly found in the literature - can also be profitably engaged with across the spectrum of opinion (i.e. exclusivist or pluralist etc.) Thus, whilst the position adopted in this work is creatio ex nihilo part of the motivation is to review the ways in which this focus helps to broaden rather than limit the discussion.

Author : Sarojini Henry
Publisher : ISPCK
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 817214878X

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The Encounter of Faith and Science in Inter-religious Dialogue by Sarojini Henry Pdf

Author : Ernst M. Conradie,Lai Pan-Chiu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725283312

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Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin by Ernst M. Conradie,Lai Pan-Chiu Pdf

This first volume in the proposed series will address some preliminary issues that are typical of a 'prolegomena' in any systematic theology. It will focus on the following question: 'How does the story of who the Triune God is and what this God does relate to the story of life on Earth?' Or: 'Is the Christian story part of the earth’s story or is the earth’s story part of God’s story, from creation to consummation?' This raises many issues on the relatedness of religion and theology, the place of theology in multi-disciplinary collaboration, the notion of revelation, the possibility of knowledge of God, the interplay between convictions and narrative accounts, hermeneutics, the difference between natural theology and a theology of nature, and the role of science vis-à-vis indigenous worldviews.

Author : John D. Inazu
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226592435

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Confident Pluralism by John D. Inazu Pdf

In the three years since Donald Trump first announced his plans to run for president, the United States seems to become more dramatically polarized and divided with each passing month. There are seemingly irresolvable differences in the beliefs, values, and identities of citizens across the country that too often play out in our legal system in clashes on a range of topics such as the tensions between law enforcement and minority communities. How can we possibly argue for civic aspirations like tolerance, humility, and patience in our current moment? In Confident Pluralism, John D. Inazu analyzes the current state of the country, orients the contemporary United States within its broader history, and explores the ways that Americans can—and must—strive to live together peaceably despite our deeply engrained differences. Pluralism is one of the founding creeds of the United States—yet America’s society and legal system continues to face deep, unsolved structural problems in dealing with differing cultural anxieties and differing viewpoints. Inazu not only argues that it is possible to cohabitate peacefully in this country, but also lays out realistic guidelines for our society and legal system to achieve the new American dream through civic practices that value toleration over protest, humility over defensiveness, and persuasion over coercion. With a new preface that addresses the election of Donald Trump, the decline in civic discourse after the election, the Nazi march in Charlottesville, and more, this new edition of Confident Pluralism is an essential clarion call during one of the most troubled times in US history. Inazu argues for institutions that can work to bring people together as well as political institutions that will defend the unprotected. Confident Pluralism offers a refreshing argument for how the legal system can protect peoples’ personal beliefs and differences and provides a path forward to a healthier future of tolerance, humility, and patience.

Author : M.D. Litonjua
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452098319

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Creative Fractures by M.D. Litonjua Pdf

The world is one of increasing diversity and pluralism. Our world is one of the different and of the many. Even the individual personality and the social self are increasingly diverse and plural. This is especially evident in racial and ethnic identities. The Ohioan, the New Yorker, the Texan, all became, after the cauldron of the Civil War, the American. Now the American is continually being hyphenated: Native-American, African-American, Latino-American, Asian-American, and a host of other hyphens. In the academy, the dichotomy between the fox who knows many things, and the hedgehog who knows one big thing (Archilocus), is giving way to different combinations and variations of learning, teaching, and expertise, as demanded by and reflecting the diversity and complexity of society and world. While these differences and pluralisms can lead to fragmentation, these fractures can also be creative. The ethnically hyphenated person who straddles two cultures need not be marginal to both, but can use the riches of his/her diverse experiences to cross-fertilize the cultures of which they are now part and parcel. The other, the different, especially the poor, must not be marginalized, pushed to the margins of society as outcasts; they need to be empowered for their betterment and for the common good of society. The academic, well-versed in several disciplines, should not be considered master of none, but can bring the insights of one discipline to tame the fundamentalism of another discipline and to expand the horizons of all. In one form or another, to a greater or lesser extent, this is what I have tried to do in the essays gathered in this second collection, the first being Critical Intersections (2006).