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God and the Scientist [electronic resource] : Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate Science and Religion SeriesPublication details: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781409445715
  • 9781409445692
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  • EBL e-books.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 215 261.55
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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