Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming--natural, Divine, and HumanFortress Press, 1993 - 438 páginas This second, expanded edition of Arthur Peacocke's seminal work now includes the author's Gifford Lectures, as well as a new part three, in which he deals roundly with the central corpus of Christian belief for a scientific age. "Distinctively theological commitments are being rethought in light of scientific apprehensions of nature".--Ted Peters, Zygon. |
Contenido
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2 The living world | 53 |
3 The history of nature | 59 |
2 Revelation and human experience | 194 |
3 How does God communicate with humanity? | 200 |
Natural Human Being the perspectives of the sciences and their implications for theology | 211 |
foci of interest and hierarchies of complexity | 212 |
2 The physical basis of human being Level 1 | 216 |
3 Human beings as living organisms Level 2 | 217 |
4 Human beings in the perspectives of sciences bridging the biological and the behavioural between levels 2 and 3 | 221 |
5 The sciences and human behaviour Level 3 | 230 |
Whos There? | 70 |
1 Human personhood | 71 |
2 Conditions for the emergence of persons | 75 |
What Does It All Mean? | 79 |
Divine Being and Becoming | 83 |
Asking Why? The Search for Intelligibility and Meaning | 85 |
God as Response to the Search for Intelligibility and Meaning | 89 |
2 God in Christian belief | 92 |
The Concept of God Implications of Scientific Perspectives | 97 |
1 Divine being | 99 |
2 Divine becoming | 111 |
Gods Interaction with the World | 133 |
2 How God might interact with the world in the perspectives of science | 149 |
3 Models of Gods interaction with the world | 164 |
special providence and miracles | 175 |
Conclusion to Part II | 182 |
Human Being and Becoming | 187 |
Gods Communication with Humanity | 189 |
6 The social sciences between levels 3 and 4 | 237 |
7 Human culture and its products Level 4 | 240 |
8 The theology of human being in the light of the sciences | 243 |
9 The paradox of human becoming | 246 |
The Long Search and Jesus of Nazareth | 253 |
2 The religious quest | 256 |
3 Who is Jesus of Nazareth? | 259 |
Divine Being becoming Human | 288 |
2 How could God communicate through Jesus? | 293 |
3 Gods selfexpression in Jesus the Christ | 298 |
Divine Meaning and Human Becoming | 310 |
2 The divine meaning for human becoming | 313 |
3 The divine initiative for human becoming | 317 |
LENVOI the Divine Means for and the End of Human Becoming | 336 |
Postscript | 345 |
Notes | 348 |
Index | 431 |
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Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming - Natural, Divine and Human Arthur Robert Peacocke Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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Página 27 - Aristotelian physics — it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom.
Página 4 - They both may lay equal claim to the word reformation, the one having compassed it in religion, the other purposing it in philosophy.