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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... particular way, seek to contribute to the presently burgeon- ing field of science and theology studies: Gifford Lectures, Science and Christian Belief (in the United States, The Faith of a Physicist); a survey of the writings of ...
... particular and unique has a necessary significance in the realm of the personal and trans- personal. Scripture is the record of remarkable individual en- counters with the divine, but it is neither uniform in its char- acter nor immune ...
... particular investiga- tion into the understanding and significance of religious ex- perience . Theological metaphysics must respect the integrity of these primary disciplines . It is not its role to instruct them or to correct their ...
... particular, I made a plea to take our personhood seriously, not succumb- ing to the Enlightenment temptation to esteem the objective above the subjective. For example, we should not exalt sci- ence at the expense of art by thinking that ...
... habits of thought, formed by my scientific career, are to try to proceed from evidence to theory, from experience to understanding, and to be very wary of claims to know general principles in advance of particular 29 MOTIVATIONS FOR BELIEF.