A Scientific Theology: Nature

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839251
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A Scientific Theology is a groundbreaking work of systematic theology in three volumes: Nature, Reality, and Theory. Written by one of the world's best-known theologians, these volumes together represent the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences yet produced. Thoroughly ecumenical, this will be a significant work for Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and evangelical readers. The work is marked throughout by a sustained and critical engagement with the history and philosophy of the natural sciences and by a passionate commitment to the legitimacy of theology as an academic discipline.

Scientific Theology: Reality

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567031233
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363

Book Description
The second volume of an extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences, focussing on the examination and defense of theological realism

The Science of God

Author: McGrath
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802828156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book is a clear, concise guide to Alister McGrath's ground breaking three-volume work A scientific theology. McGrath himself here summarizes his major project and sketches out its implications for many aspects of Christian doctrine. He then explores all of the major themes of his three-volume work, including the legitimacy of a scientific theology, the purpose and place of natural theology, the foundations of theological realism, the failure of classic foundationalism, the nature of revelation, and the place of metaphysics in theology.

Belief in God in an Age of Science

Author: John Polkinghorne
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300174101
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
John Polkinghorne is a major figure in today’s debates over the compatibility of science and religion. Internationally known as both a theoretical physicist and a theologian—the only ordained member of the Royal Society—Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his inquiry into the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science. In this thought-provoking book, the author focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that these "intellectual cousins" are both concerned with interpreted experience and with the quest for truth about reality. He argues eloquently that scientific and theological inquiries are parallel. The book begins with a discussion of what belief in God can mean in our times. Polkinghorne explores a new natural theology and emphasizes the importance of moral and aesthetic experience and the human intuition of value and hope. In other chapters, he compares science’s struggle to understand the nature of light with Christian theology’s struggle to understand the nature of Christ. He addresses the question, Does God act in the physical world? And he extends his ideas about the role of chaos theory, surveys the prospects for future dialogue between scientific and theological thinkers, and defends a critical realist understanding of the activities of both disciplines. Polkinghorne concludes with a consideration of the nature of mathematical truths and the links between the complementary realities of physical and mental experience.

Science and Theology

Author: J. C. Polkinghorne
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451411515
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
In this short masterpiece, eminent scientist and theologian John Polkinghorne offers an accessible, yet authoritative, introduction to the stimulating field of science and theology. After surveying their volatile historical relationship, he leads the reader through the whole array of questions at the nexus of the scientific and religious quests. A lucid and lively writer, Polkinghorne provides a marvelously clear overview of the major elements of current science (including quantum theory, chaos theory, time, and cosmology). He then offers a concise outline of the character of religion and shows the joint potential of science of religion to illumine some of the thorniest issues in theology today: creation, the nature of knowledge, human and divine identity and agency. Polkinghorne aptly demonstrates that a sturdy faith has nothing to fear and much to gain from an intellectually honest appraisal of the new horizons of contemporary science.

Theology for a Scientific Age

Author: Arthur Robert Peacocke
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Religion and science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

A Scientific Theology

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802839275
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Written by Alister McGrath, one of the world's best-known theologians, these volumes present the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences ever undertaken. Thoroughly ecumenical in approach, A Scientific Theology is a significant work for Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant readers. Each volume is marked throughout by a sustained critical engagement with the history and philosophy of the natural sciences and by a passionate commitment to the legitimacy of theology as an academic discipline. Volume 3 provides a fresh evaluation of the origins and place of theory in Christian theology. Dealing with the question of how reality is represented in Christian theology and the natural sciences, theory is understood as a response to experienced reality, a "communal beholding of reality." Against those who might favor a "non-dogmatic" Christianity, McGrath argues that the Christian community is under an intellectual obligation to give an account of what it corporately "beholds." The many theoretical issues addressed in this volume include the manner in which closure is secured in theological theorizing, the problem of reductionism in theoretical analysis, the explanatory dimensions of theology, the implications of the stratification of reality for its representation, the place of metaphysics in Christian theology, and the nature of revelation itself. Book jacket.

Scientific Theology: Nature

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567031225
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
A Scientific Theology is a groundbreaking work of systematic theology in three volumes: Nature, Reality and Theory. Now available as a three volume set.

Scientific Theology: Theory

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567031241
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
The third volume of an extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences, focussing on the origins and place of theory in Christian theology

The Order of Things

Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470680598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Provocative and immensely well informed, The Order of Things represents a substantial and original contribution to the fields of systematic theology, historical theology, and the science and religion dialogue. Leading theologian, Alister E. McGrath explores how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be used to inform and stimulate systematic theology. Written by one of today's best-known Christian writers Explores how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be used to inform and stimulate systematic theology Continues McGrath’s acclaimed exploration of scientific theology, begun with his groundbreaking three-volume work, A Scientific Theology Includes a landmark extended analysis of whether doctrinal development can be explained using Darwinian evolutionary models, and exploration of how the transition from a “scientific theology” to a future “scientific dogmatics” might be made Supported by a published review of McGrath’s scientific theology project, which is currently the best brief introduction to his thought.