God and the Scientist
Watts, Fraser.
God and the Scientist Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne. [electronic resource] : - Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012. - 1 online resource (299 p.) - Ashgate Science and Religion Series. . - Ashgate Science and Religion Series. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 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; 7 Cosmic If-statements; 8 Bishop Berkeley's Castle: John Polkinghorne on the Soul. 9 Theology and Scientific Cosmology10 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 Inspiration16 Some Responses; A Selected Bibliography of Works on the Science-Theology Dialogue; Index.
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.
Available electronically via the Internet.
9781409445715 9781409445692
Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-. Religion and science.
Electronic books.
215 261.55
God and the Scientist Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne. [electronic resource] : - Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012. - 1 online resource (299 p.) - Ashgate Science and Religion Series. . - Ashgate Science and Religion Series. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 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; 7 Cosmic If-statements; 8 Bishop Berkeley's Castle: John Polkinghorne on the Soul. 9 Theology and Scientific Cosmology10 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 Inspiration16 Some Responses; A Selected Bibliography of Works on the Science-Theology Dialogue; Index.
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.
Available electronically via the Internet.
9781409445715 9781409445692
Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-. Religion and science.
Electronic books.
215 261.55