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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... recognition of an inescapable degree of precariousness present in all forms of human search for knowledge, and also to resist succumbing to epistemological despair. Theology's appeal to revelation is seen as being recourse to ...
... recognition reinforces the perception of mathematics as being the fundamental language of physi- cal science. Second, attempts to use quantum cosmology as a device for generating a many-worlds interpretation of an- thropic coincidences ...
... recognition of the limited role of a reduction- ist particle physics within the totality of scientific understand- ing. Reality is too rich to be taken in at a single glance; it must be viewed from many perspectives. If it is true that ...
... recognition of human finitude and also with the intuition of an infinite Reality beyond the community of humankind . Death is perhaps one of the most direct ways in which to broach the issue . In one sense , there could be no more ...
... recognition of the influence of a theological doctrine of creation that affirmed the worth of that creation and emphasised the freely chosen character of the rationality with which the Creator had endowed it. This im- plied that there ...