Ramified Natural Theology In Science And Religion

Author : Rodney Holder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000205725

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Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion by Rodney Holder Pdf

This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources cannot be maintained, since what purports to be revelation cannot be accepted without qualification: rational argument is needed to infer both the existence of God from nature and the particular truth claims of the Christian faith from the Bible. Hence the distinction between ‘bare natural theology’ and ‘ramified natural theology.’ The book begins with bare natural theology as background to its main focus on ramified natural theology. Bayesian confirmation theory is utilised to evaluate competing hypotheses in both cases, in a similar manner to that by which competing hypotheses in science can be evaluated on the basis of empirical data. In this way a case is built up for the rationality of a Christian theist worldview. Addressing issues of science, theology and revelation in a new framework, this book will be of keen interest to scholars working in Religion and Science, Natural Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, and Science and Culture.

Author : Rodney Holder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000205787

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Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion by Rodney Holder Pdf

This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources cannot be maintained, since what purports to be revelation cannot be accepted without qualification: rational argument is needed to infer both the existence of God from nature and the particular truth claims of the Christian faith from the Bible. Hence the distinction between ‘bare natural theology’ and ‘ramified natural theology.’ The book begins with bare natural theology as background to its main focus on ramified natural theology. Bayesian confirmation theory is utilised to evaluate competing hypotheses in both cases, in a similar manner to that by which competing hypotheses in science can be evaluated on the basis of empirical data. In this way a case is built up for the rationality of a Christian theist worldview. Addressing issues of science, theology and revelation in a new framework, this book will be of keen interest to scholars working in Religion and Science, Natural Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, and Science and Culture.

Author : Arthur D'Adamo
Publisher : Adamford.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Science as Natural Theology by Arthur D'Adamo Pdf

Imagine a list of all the gods and goddesses worshipped over the centuries. The list would include the following: Anuket, Astarte, Atlas, Dyeus, Freyja, Gaia, Isis, Ixcacao, Izanagi, Kali, Kichigonai, Lakshmi, Mat Zemlya, Olorun, Pangu, Quetzalcoatl, Ra, Tengri, Thor, Toci, Venus, Viracocha, Xi Wangmu, and Zeus. And more. Thousands more. Unless we believe all those gods and goddesses genuinely exist, we must regard at least some of them as fictions. Such a prolific invention of gods and goddesses might cause us to wonder if we should regard the various gods and goddesses worshipped today as fictions, too. But it might also lead us to wonder if an obscure intuition of some reality motivates those inventions. We want to construct an accurate picture of that reality. So we start with what we know, with solid fact; we begin with the knowledge we’ve collected, refined and repeatedly verified over the centuries. In other words, we attempt to dispassionately infer the theological consequences, if any, of science.

Author : John Hedley Brooke,John Brooke,Geoffrey Cantor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567087255

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Reconstructing Nature by John Hedley Brooke,John Brooke,Geoffrey Cantor Pdf

Shortlisted for the Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Books in Theology and Natural Sciences John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor discuss exciting developments in the sciences, whether in Big Bang cosmology, chaos theory or genetic engineering, in relation to moral and spiritual questions. Contemporary discussion can, however, be blind if it ignores previous forms of engagement between science and religion. In their Gifford Lectures the authors argue that not one but several historical approaches are required to achieve critical perspective and balanced understanding. Accordingly, each chapter demonstrates the value of a particular historical method. Ranging from alchemy to new-age philosophies, from the Galileo affair to the Darwinian controversies, this is an indispensable and highly accessible book for all interested in science and religion.

Author : Katherine Calloway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317318248

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Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution by Katherine Calloway Pdf

In the seventeenth century scientific discoveries called into question established Christian theology. It has been claimed that contemporary thinkers contributed to this conflict model by using the discoveries of the natural world to prove the existence of God. Calloway challenges this view by close examination of five key texts of the period.

Author : Shaun C. Henson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317915027

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God and Natural Order by Shaun C. Henson Pdf

In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory. Drawing on the work of theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg and his conception of the Trinitarian Christian god, the author argues that a theological line of inquiry can provide a useful framework for examining controversies in physics and the philosophy of science. God and Natural Order will raise provocative questions for theologians, Pannenberg scholars, and researchers working in the intersection of science and religion.

Author : William F. English
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Evolution
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1HGB

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Evolution and Immanent God by William F. English Pdf

Author : William Paley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199535750

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Natural Theology by William Paley Pdf

William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition sets his work in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century.

Author : W. L. Blamires
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Intelligent design (Teleology)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNDH2N

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Studies and Speculations in Natural Theology by W. L. Blamires Pdf

Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : God
ISBN : NYPL:33433068182025

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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, by William Paley Pdf

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119046370

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Re-Imagining Nature by Alister E. McGrath Pdf

Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world’s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets

Author : Charles E. Raven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521166393

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Natural Religion and Christian Theology: Volume 1, Science and Religion by Charles E. Raven Pdf

Canon Raven presents a rewriting of the history of science in organic and holistic categories.

Author : J. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Evolution
ISBN : HARVARD:32044073543381

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A New Natural Theology by J. Morris Pdf

Author : Henry Fergus,Charles Henry Alden
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104022656

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Class Book of Natural Theology by Henry Fergus,Charles Henry Alden Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Newman Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Natural theology
ISBN : NYPL:33433068181712

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Constructive Natural Theology by Newman Smyth Pdf