Issues In Science And Theology Nature And Beyond

Author : Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov,Knut-Willy Sæther,Bernard Michollet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030311827

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Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond by Michael Fuller,Dirk Evers,Anne Runehov,Knut-Willy Sæther,Bernard Michollet Pdf

This book addresses a variety of important questions on nature, science, and spirituality: Is the natural world all that there is? Or is it possible to move ‘beyond nature’? What might it mean to transcend nature? What reflections of anything ‘beyond nature’ might be found in nature itself? Gathering papers originally delivered at the 2018 annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT), the book includes contributions of an international group of scientists, philosophers, theologians and historians, all discussing nature and what may lie beyond it. More than 20 chapters explore questions of science, nature, spirituality and more, including Nature – and Beyond? Immanence and Transcendence in Science and Religion Awe and wonder in scientific practice: Implications for the relationship between science and religion The Cosmos Considered as a Moral Institution The transcendent within: how our own biology leads to spirituality Preserving the heavens and the earth: Planetary sustainability from a Biblical and educational perspective Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond will benefit a broad audience of students, scholars and faculty in such disciplines as philosophy, history of science, theology, and ethics.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031418006

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

Author : Dirk Evers,Michael Fuller,Antje Jackelén,Knut-Willy Sæther
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319174075

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Issues in Science and Theology: What is Life? by Dirk Evers,Michael Fuller,Antje Jackelén,Knut-Willy Sæther Pdf

This book explores the concept of Life from a range of perspectives. Divided into three parts, it first examines the concept of Life from physics to biology. It then presents insights on the concept from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and ethics. The book concludes with chapters on the hermeneutics of Life, and pays special attention to the Biosemiotics approach to the concept. The question ‘What is Life?’ has been deliberated by the greatest minds throughout human history. Life as we know it is not a substance or fundamental property, but a complex process. It is not an easy task to develop an unequivocal approach towards Life combining scientific, semiotic, philosophical, theological, and ethical perspectives. In its combination of these perspectives, and its wide-ranging scope, this book opens up levels and identifies issues which can serve as intersections for meaningful interdisciplinary discussions of Life in its different aspects. The book includes the four plenary lectures and selected, revised and extended papers from workshops of the 14th European Conference on Science and Theology (ECST XIV) held in Tartu, Estonia, April 2012.

Author : Paul K. Moser,Chad Meister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108472173

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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience by Paul K. Moser,Chad Meister Pdf

Offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience.

Author : Piet Slootweg
Publisher : Summum Academic
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789492701428

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Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter by Piet Slootweg Pdf

Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork'? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God's majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God's goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Author : Jeff Astley,David Brown,Ann Loades
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567082431

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Science and Religion (Problems in Theology) by Jeff Astley,David Brown,Ann Loades Pdf

This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the relationships between science, religion and theology. It samples the recent literature on the challenges to religion posed by both modern physics and evolutionary biology as well as exploring the relationship between scientific and theological approaches. Topics include models of interaction between science and religion, historical reflections on the "conflict thesis", scientific and theological methods, creation and modern cosmology, uncertainty and chaos, creationism and evolutionary theory, the anthropic principle and design, and the challenge of reductionism. Contributors include Ian Barbour, Michael Behe, Richard Dawkins, John Habgood, Mary Hesse, T. H. Huxley, Alister McGrath, Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Michael Ruse, Keith Ward and Fraser Watts.

Author : Andrew M. Davis,Roland Faber
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666944372

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Astrophilosophy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion by Andrew M. Davis,Roland Faber Pdf

Astrophilosopy, Exotheology, and Cosmic Religion: Extraterrestrial Life in a Process Universe applies Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy and the associated process philosophies of Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, and others to the interdisciplinary layers of astrobiology, extraterrestrial life, and the impact of discovery. This collection, edited by Andrew M. Davis and Roland Faber, asks questions such as “How have process thinkers imagined universal creative evolution and its implications for philosophies, theologies, and religions beyond earth?” and “How might their claims as to the primacy of organism, temporality, novelty, value, and mind enrich current discussions and debates across disciplines?” As experts in their fields, the contributors are informed by, but not limited to, process conceptualities. The chapters not only advance recent discussions in astrobiology, cosmology, and evolution but also consider a constellation of philosophical topics, from shared extraterrestrial knowledge and values to the possibilities or limitations afforded by A.I. technology, the Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, and the increasing need to nurture the cosmic dimensions of theological and religious traditions.

Author : Peter Harrison,Paul Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000538861

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New Directions in Theology and Science by Peter Harrison,Paul Tyson Pdf

This book sets out a new agenda for science-theology interactions and offers examples of what that agenda might look like when implemented. It explores, in innovative ways, what follows for science-theology discussions from recent developments in the history of science. The contributions take seriously the historically conditioned nature of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and consider the ways in which these categories are reinforced in the public sphere. Reflecting on the balance of power between theology and the sciences, the authors demonstrate a commitment to moving beyond traditional models of one-sided dialogue and seek to give theology a more active role in determining the interdisciplinary agenda.

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643964885

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Creation - Transformation - Theology by LIT Verlag Pdf

The social and cultural challenges posed by the increasing threat to creation (climate change, destruction of biodiversity, etc.) are the starting point for new philosophical-ethical and theological reflections on the relationship between God, human beings and the world, as presented in this volume. God's creative impulse, which transforms anew, is at work in the actions of human beings and challenges us, in view of the threat to the "house of life" earth, to go new ways that make a common and good life possible. Creation and transformation are interrelated; an ecological theology of creation and practice of sustainability to be developed in the European context is to be embedded in the horizon of a global, liberating theology. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Margit Eckholt, professor of dogmatics and fundamental theology at the Institute of Catholic Theology / University of Osnabrück, president of the European Society for Catholic Theology

Author : William Sweet,Richard Feist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351150385

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Religion and the Challenges of Science by William Sweet,Richard Feist Pdf

Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This question has been a matter of long-standing debate - and it continues to concern not only scholars in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but also those involved in public educational policy. This volume provides background to the current 'science and religion' debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated. The first theme deals with the history of the interrelation of science and religion. The second and third themes deal with the implications of recent work in cosmology, biology and so-called intelligent design for religion and religious belief. The fourth theme is concerned with 'conceptual issues' underlying, or implied, in the current debates, such as: Are scientific naturalism and religion compatible? Are science and religion bodies of knowledge or practices or both? Do religion and science offer conflicting truth claims? By illuminating contemporary discussion in the science-religion debate and by outlining the options available in describing the relation between the two, this volume will be of interest to scholars and to members of the educated public alike.

Author : Wolfhart Pannenberg
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664253849

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Toward a Theology of Nature by Wolfhart Pannenberg Pdf

Pannenberg poses theological questions to natural scientists that illuminate his personal position on issues dealing with theology and the natural sciences, especially physics, reviewing the relationship between natural law and contingency, the importance of the spirit in the phenomenon of life, field theory, language, and the theological account for the nature of God and God's creative activity.

Author : William Sweet,Richard Feist
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0754657159

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Religion and the Challenges of Science by William Sweet,Richard Feist Pdf

Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This volume provides background to the current 'science and religion' debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated.

Author : Gordon J. Glover
Publisher : Watertree Press LLC
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780978718619

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Beyond the Firmament by Gordon J. Glover Pdf

As debates within the Church over the scientific details of creation become more frequent, the experts seem to grow more entrenched while the rest of us only become more confused. Somewhere between the endless arguments over distant starlight and Carbon-14 dating, calculating the mathematical improbabilities of things that already exist, and parsing ancient Hebrew and Greek, somebody needs to ask the simple question, If 3,500 years of scientific progress can't help modern Christians figure out Genesis, then how could the ancient Israelities possibly have understood it so well? What secret did this newly liberated gaggle of Hebrew nomads take with them out of Egypt that holds the key to understanding God's telling of His own creation story? Beyond the Firmament challenges all creationist camps --whether Young-Earth, Old-Earth, or Theistic Evolutionist -- to step outside of traditional paradigms and recognize how our modern, Western, post-Enlightenment scientific worldview actually blinds us from seeing the simple truth of Creation as it was originally intended, and how our failure to grasp the theological significance of the Biblical creation model puts science and faith on a collision course.

Author : Dan Dombrowski,Brianne Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443870238

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Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature by Dan Dombrowski,Brianne Donaldson Pdf

Environmental destruction, animal abuse, and widespread indifference toward plants and elemental systems demand that a human-centric view of the world be permanently dismantled. But once it is, what functional hierarchies take its place, if any? This volume brings Alfred North Whitehead's process-relational worldview into conversation with deeper empirical perspectives on science and religion, with activist and de/constructive philosophies, with South Asian and indigenous traditions, and with...

Author : Andreas Losch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107175891

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What is Life? On Earth and Beyond by Andreas Losch Pdf

This volume explores the questions and answers surrounding the 'secret of life', combining approaches from the sciences, philosophy and theology, including the emerging discipline of astrobiology.