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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... intellectual endeavour, the enterprise of higher education is incomplete. In the course of an open search for understand- ing, the personal and subjective elements of human experience must be accorded equal weight with the impersonal ...
... intellectually content about it, to reckon that we see how it constitutes a totally sat- isfactory matrix of understanding, whose intrinsic nature and inner consistency we are able to grasp. The problem does not lie in the strangeness ...
... intellectual arabesques performed on ex- tremely thin theoretical ice. Here is another area of physical science in ... intellectually thrilling adornment. So far, the quest, though actively pursued by many very able people, 9 THEOLOGY IN ...
... intellectual discovery but many, many physical phenomena of the highest interest—such as the turbulent motion of fluids, the superconducting proper- ties of metals and the thermodynamic properties of bulk mat- ter—would lie far outside ...
... intellectual restrictive practices that have been encouraged by that Enlightenment style of thinking of which we are all , to some extent , the heirs . The impersonal is not to be given precedence over the personal, or the quantitative ...