Fraser Watts

God and the Scientist

Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne
Herausgeber: Knight, Christopher C.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a celebration, survey and critique of the theological work of arguably the most important and most widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, this book draws together contributors from among the most important voices in the science-theology dialogue today to focus on key aspects of Polkinghorne's work, with Polkinghorne providing responses. Anybody exploring contemporary aspects of the science-religion debate will find this book invaluable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781409445692
• ISBN-10: 1409445690
• Artikelnr.: 57047279

Autorenporträt

Fraser Watts is Starbridge Reader in Science and Religion, University of Cambridge, author and editor of numerous books on the science-religion dialogue; Christopher C.Knight is Executive Secretary of the International Society for Science and Religion, author of two books on the science-religion dialogue.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker; 2: John Polkinghorne on Three
Scientist-Theologians; 3: Is Informational Causality Primary Causality? A
Study of an Aspect of John Polkinghorne's Account of Divine Action; 4:
Polkinghorne on Mathematics and Chaos Theory; 5: Queen Physics: How Much of
the Globe is Painted Red?; 6: God and Time: A New Flowing Time
Interpretation of Special Relativity and its Importance for Theology 1; 7:
Cosmic If-statements; 8: Bishop Berkeley's Castle: John Polkinghorne on the
Soul; 9: Theology and Scientific Cosmology; 10: Christian Hope in Dialogue
with Natural Science: John Polkinghorne's Incorporation of Bottom-up
Thinking into Eschatology; 11: Subtle and Supple: John Polkinghorne's
Engagement with Reality; 12: On Revising Natural Theology: John
Polkinghorne and the False Modesty of Liberal Theology; 13: John
Polkinghorne's Kenotic Theology of Creation and its Implications for a
Theory of Human Creativity; 14: Science-and-Theology from the Standpoint of
Divine Kenosis; 15: Processes of Discovery in Science and Theology:
Bottom-up Approach, Critical Realism and Interdisciplinary Inspiration; 16:
Some Responses