Michael Heller

Creative Tension

Essays on Science and Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection essays on the interplay of science and religion from a prominent Polish philosopher and Roman Catholic priest with a special emphasis on physics, cosmology, and astronomy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Templeton Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 183
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781932031348
• ISBN-10: 1932031340
• Artikelnr.: 21610429

Autorenporträt

Michael Heller is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He is an ordained Roman Catholic priest, and has earned a master's degree in philosophy and a PhD in cosmology. His current research is in relativistic cosmology and the application of noncommutative geometry to physics and cosmology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / vii
Preface / xi
PART ONE. FROM THE METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. THE ABUSE OF COSMOLOGY / 3
2. ON THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF PHYSICAL CREATION THEORIES / 10
3. THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF THE WORLD / 22
4. A PROGRAM FOR THEOLOGY OF SCIENCE / 29
PART TWO. FROM THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE / 33
5. FROM THE PRIVILEGED MARGIN TO AN AVERAGE CENTER / 35
6. SCIENTIFIC RATIONALITY AND CHRISTIAN LOGOS / 47
7. TEILHARD’S VISION OF THE WORLD AND MODERN COSMOLOGY / 58
8. LEMAÎTRE—PRIEST AND SCIENTIST / 70
PART THREE. THE WORK OF CREATION / 75
9. COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITY AND THE CREATION OF
THE UNIVERSE / 79
10. GENERALIZATIONS: FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO GOD / 100
11. CHAOS, PROBABILITY, AND THE COMPREHENSIBILITY
OF THE WORLD / 127