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Describing the hand of God : divine agency and Augustinian obstables to the dialogue between theology and science /
An exploration of how traditional understandings of God's agency have complicated theology's rapprochement with science, and how an alternative post-Augustinian approach offers a way forward.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
James Clarke,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Divine Agency: A Source of Unresolved Issues between Theology and Science; False Starts at Conciliatory Dialogue; Complexity of the Theology and Science Dialogue; Can the Reality of God's Personal Interaction with Humans Be Maintained?; Technical Issues Related to the Theology and Science Dialogue; Divine Agency Develops from Three Factors Commonly Understood in Early Modernity and the Possibility of an Alternative; Chapter 2. Divine Agency, Inspiration, Perfection, and Generic Theology.
- The Convergence of Augustinian Inspiration and Perfect-being Theology in Early Modern Science's Synthesis of an Impersonal Description of Divine Agency in the WorldPerfect-being Theology Remains a Contemporary Issue; Perfect-being Theology at the Beginnings of the Modern Period until the Mid-Nineteenth Century; The Two Books of God's Revelation as a Factor in Early Modern Understanding of Divine Agency; Inspiration as Guarantee of God's Action-the Third Factor; Augustine's Description of Inspiration by Way of Tertullian; Incarnational Divine Agency and Inspiration.
- Chapter 3. Newton and God/Providence Inspiring the UniverseNewton as Theologian; Newton Studies: Open-ended and Controversial; Aether and Spirit; Matter in a Nutshell: Permeable to the Spirit; Cosmic Strings (after a Fashion): Newton's Gravity; The Sensorium of God; (Newton) Clarke-Leibniz Correspondence; God's Law Revealed by Augustinian Ekstasis Inspiration of Infinite Space; After Newton; Vestiges of Divine Perfection in Nature; Chapter 4. Divine Agency Implying Perfection and the Existence of the Metaphysical Soul; Perfection as Precondition Challenged by Science.
- Darwin: Perfection No MoreHuxley: Metaphysics No More; The Legacy-the Shape of the Stumbling Block to the Dialogue between Theology and Science; Chapter 5. Describing Divine Agency in Humans Pneumatologically and Christologically Beginning with Christ; Barth's Non-Augustinian Pneumatology; Scholarly Debate on Barth's Pneumatology in Church Dogmatics; Natural Theology and Non-Augustinian Pneumatology; Holy Spirit and Humanity; Barth's Doctrine of Scripture; Barth's Anthropology and Holy Spirit; Why Barth Stops-Mystery and Holy Spirit.
- Barth, Incarnational Divine Agency, and Resolving One Area of TensionChapter 6. Dialogue with One Obstacle Removed; Revised Divine Agency and the Dialogue with Science; Revised Divine Agency and Doctrine's Function; Implications for the Current Debate: Foundations of Shifting Sand: Which Assumptions? Whose Analysis?; Bibliography; Back cover.