Theology And The Scientific Imagination

Author : Amos Funkenstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691184265

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Theology and the Scientific Imagination by Amos Funkenstein Pdf

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein’s influential analysis of the seventeenth century’s “unprecedented fusion” of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Author : Amos Funkenstein,Jonathan Sheehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : God
ISBN : 0691181357

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Theology and the Scientific Imagination by Amos Funkenstein,Jonathan Sheehan Pdf

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the metaphysical foundations of modern science and shows how, by the 1600s, theological and scientific thinking had become almost one. Major figures like Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, and others developed an unprecedented secular theology whose debt to medieval and scholastic thought shaped the trajectory of the scientific revolution. The book ends with Funkenstein's influential analysis of the seventeenth century's "unprecedented fusion" of scientific and religious language. Featuring a new foreword, Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pathbreaking and classic work that remains a fundamental resource for historians and philosophers of science.

Author : Professor Christopher B Kaiser
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409477662

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Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour by Professor Christopher B Kaiser Pdf

Foundations of science are specific conditions of the cosmos, of human intelligence, of cultural beliefs, and of technological structures that make the pursuit of modern science possible. Each of the four foundations of scientific endeavour can be studied as a topic on its own. The concurrent study of all four together reveals several tensions and interconnections among them that point the way to a greater unification of faith and science. This book explores four foundations of scientific endeavour and investigates some of the paradoxes each of them raises. Kaiser shows that the resolution of these paradoxes inevitably leads us into theological discourse and raises new challenges for theological endeavour. In order to address these challenges, Kaiser draws on the wider resources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and argues for a refocusing of contemporary theology from the perspective of natural science.

Author : Niels Henrik Gregersen,Michael W. S. Parsons,Christoph Wassermann
Publisher : Labor et Fides
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biology
ISBN : 2830908953

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The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology by Niels Henrik Gregersen,Michael W. S. Parsons,Christoph Wassermann Pdf

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith,Arnon Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190212308

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The Scientific Imagination by Peter Godfrey-Smith,Arnon Levy Pdf

The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "in the mind's eye," is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human life. Indeed, common scientific practices such as modeling and idealization rely on the imagination to construct simplified, stylized scenarios essential for scientific understanding. Yet the philosophy of science has traditionally shied away from according an important role to the imagination, wary of psychologizing fundamental scientific concepts like explanation and justification. In recent years, however, advances in thinking about creativity and fiction, and their relation to theorizing and understanding, have prompted a move away from older philosophical perspectives and toward a greater acknowledgement of the place of the imagination in scientific practice. Meanwhile, psychologists have engaged in significant experimental work on the role of the imagination in causal thinking and probabilistic reasoning. The Scientific Imagination delves into this burgeoning area of debate at the intersection of the philosophy and practice of science, bringing together the work of leading researchers in philosophy and psychology. Philosophers discuss such topics as modeling, idealization, metaphor and explanation, examining their role within science as well as how they affect questions in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language. Psychologists discuss how our imaginative capacities develop and how they work, their relationships with processes of reasoning, and how they compare to related capacities, such as categorization and counterfactual thinking. Together, these contributions combine to provide a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientific imagination.

Author : Jennifer Rosato,Alan Vincelette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527596745

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Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination by Jennifer Rosato,Alan Vincelette Pdf

What do scientists know about the possibility of life outside our solar system? How does Catholic science fiction imagine such worlds? What are the implications for Catholic thought? This collection brings together leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and science fiction authors in the Catholic tradition to examine these issues. In the first section, Christian scientists detail the latest scientific findings regarding the possibility of life on exoplanets. The second part brings together leading Catholic science fiction authors who describe how "alien" life forms have been prevalent in the Catholic imagination from the Middle Ages right up to the present day. In the final section, Catholic philosophers and theologians examine the implications of discovering intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Rather than worrying that the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrials might threaten the dignity of humans or their existence, the contributors here maintain that such creatures should be welcomed as fellow creatures of God and potential subjects of divine salvation.

Author : Katherine Calloway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317318255

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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 : Garrett Green
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0802844847

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Imagining God by Garrett Green Pdf

Garrett Green examines the point at which divine revelation and human experience meet, where the priority of grace is acknowledged while allowing its dynamics to be described in analytical and comparative terms as a religious phenomenon.

Author : John C. Polkinghorne
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781599472003

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One World by John C. Polkinghorne Pdf

Both science and religion explore aspects of reality, providing "a basis for their mutual interaction as they present their different perspectives onto the one world of existent reality," Polkinghorne argues. In One World, he develops his thesis through an examination of the nature of science, the nature of the physical world, the character of theology, and the modes of thought in science and theology. He identifies "points of interaction" and points of potential conflict between science and religion. Along the way, he discusses creation, determinism, prayer, miracles, and future life, and he explains his rejection of scientific reductionism and his defense of natural theology.

Author : Andrew Davison
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334043522

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Imaginative Apologetics by Andrew Davison Pdf

Apologetics, the rational defense of the Christian faith in a public context, using the language of philosophy, is traditionally associated with either Roman Catholic theology or Evangelicalism. The contributors to this book seek to (re-)claim Christian apologetics in an Anglican Catholic context. The book originated in a number of successful Apologetics summer schools at St Stephen's College Oxford which generated interest in the rediscovery of apologetics in the context of today's Church. A star cast of authors from a variety of backgrounds offer constructive reflections on subjects such as what is Apologetics?; common objections to the Christian Faith; atheism; apologetics and contemporary culture and apologetics in the parish. Contributors include: Graham Ward (Manchester, Alister McGrath (King's College London), Alison Milbank (Nottingham) and Robin Ward (Oxford).

Author : David N. Stamos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781438463926

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Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination by David N. Stamos Pdf

Explores the science and creative process behind Poe’s cosmological treatise. Silver Winner for Philosophy, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards In 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was published. In it, he weaved together his scientific speculations about the universe with his own literary theory, theology, and philosophy of science. Although Poe himself considered it to be his magnum opus, Eureka has mostly been overlooked or underappreciated, sometimes even to the point of being thought an elaborate hoax. Remarkably, however, in Eureka Poe anticipated at least nine major theories and developments in twentieth-century science, including the Big Bang theory, multiverse theory, and the solution to Olbers’ paradox. In this book—the first devoted specifically to Poe’s science side—David N. Stamos, a philosopher of science, combines scientific background with analysis of Poe’s life and work to highlight the creative and scientific achievements of this text. He examines Poe’s literary theory, theology, and intellectual development, and then compares Poe’s understanding of science with that of scientists and philosophers from his own time to the present. Next, Stamos pieces together and clarifies Poe’s theory of scientific imagination, which he then attempts to update and defend by providing numerous case studies of eureka moments in modern science and by seeking insights from comparative biography and psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and evolution. David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University in Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Darwin and the Nature of Species, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : John McIntyre
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UVA:X001261305

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Faith, Theology and Imagination by John McIntyre Pdf

How imagination enriches ethics, devotion and Christian theology.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031418006

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

Author : Yiftach Fehige
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Paul Tyson
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493437498

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A Christian Theology of Science by Paul Tyson Pdf

An author on the cutting edge of today's theology and science discussions argues that creedal Christianity has much to contribute to the ongoing conversation. This book contains an intellectual history of theology's engagement with science during the modern period, critiques current approaches, and makes a constructive proposal for how a Christian theological vision of natural knowledge can be better pursued. The author explains that it is good both for religion and for science when Christians treat theology as their first truth discourse. Foreword by David Bentley Hart.