Faith, Science and UnderstandingYale University Press, 2008. 10. 1. - 224ÆäÀÌÁö 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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... fundamental mathematical structures, that underlie physically picturable models, that the degree of continuity of account that realism demands is to be discerned. This recognition reinforces the perception of mathematics as being the ...
... fundamental structure of matter. Then, as always, money was short and the arguments between the different sciences seeking their share of what was available, correspondingly intense. We particle physicists were studying the behaviour of ...
... fundamental structure of the matter of the universe, to unravel the mysteries of quarks and gluons, was in itself a worthwhile thing to do, a high human achievement that did not need to find its justification outside itself. It was a ...
... fundamental role of measurement in thewhole of physics.There is clearly more still to be understood. Another difficulty makes a similar point. The two great fundamental discoveries of physical sciencein thiscenturyhavebeen ...
... fundamental physical theories eventually find a satisfactory merger for reasons of principle but also those cosmologists, like Stephen Hawking, who are bold enough to talk about the extremely early universe must make some sort of shift ...
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II DIVINE AGENCY | 103 |
III SIGNIFICANT THINKERS | 153 |
NINE Science and Theology in England | 195 |
Index | 207 |