Faith, Science and UnderstandingYale University Press, 2008. 10. 1. - 224페이지 In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university (it is part of the human search for truth) and discusses the role of revelation in religion (it is a record of experience and not the communication of unchallengeable propositions). Throughout his thought-provoking conversation, Polkinghorne speaks with an honesty and openness that derives from his many years of experience in scientific research. A central concern of Polkinghorne’s collection of writings is to reconcile what science can say about the processes of the universe with theology’s belief in a God active within creation. The author examines two related concepts in depth. The first is the divine self-limitation involved in creation that leads to an important reappraisal of the traditional claim that God does not act as a cause among causes. The other is the nature of time and God’s involvement with it, an issue that Polkinghorne shows can link metascience and theological understandings. In the final section of the book, the author reviews three centuries of the science and theology debate and assesses the work of major contemporary contributors to the discussion: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Torrance, and Paul Davies. He also considers why the science-theology discussion has for several centuries been a particular preoccupation of the English. |
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... first section of the book is concerned with a number of key issues that arise in the interaction between science and theology. Its underlying basis is the conviction that both disci- plines have things of value to say to each other ...
... first two chapters of this book. In chapter 1, I de- fend the concepts of the value of knowledge for knowledge's sake and of the essential unity of knowledge. I believe these to be the foundations on which the life of a university is ...
... First, critical realism is defended in the face of the apparent disconti- nuity involved in moving from Newton's inverse square law of gravitation to Einstein's geometry of curved space. The con- clusion is that it is only at the level ...
... first pre- sented by the historian of ideas R. G.Collingwood. The other is a putting into question the traditional theological assump- tion that God should never be considered as acting as a cause among causes. I suggest that divine ...
... first place to science's power to understand the world, even over technology's power to change it. Arguing in such terms would have cut ice with theolo- gians also, had they been sitting round the table at SRC. They too are concerned ...