Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
by Russell, Robert John; Murphy, Nancey; Stoeger, William R.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-01-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Summary
This collection of thirteen essays assesses a series of five scholarly publications resulting from five international research conferences co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory (VO) and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) between 1991 and 2000. The overarching goal of this series was to advance the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences with special attention to the advance the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences with special attention to the theme of divine action and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements within science
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Critical appraisals of the Series as A Whole | |
| Challenge and Progress in ôTheology and Scienceö: An Overview of the VO/CTNS Series | p. 3 |
| Scientific Issues: Ground Covered and Horizons Unfolding | p. 57 |
| Philosophical Analysis of Specific Issues In The Series | |
| Toward a Theory of Divine Action That Has Traction | p. 85 |
| Emergence, Downward Causation, and Divine Action | p. 111 |
| The Divine Action Project, 1988-2003 | p. 133 |
| Theological Analysis of Specific Issues In The Series | |
| Special Divine Action and the Quilt of Laws: Why the Distinction between Special and General Divine Action Cannot Be Maintained | p. 179 |
| Some Reflections on 'Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action' | p. 201 |
| Conceiving Divine Action in a Dynamic Universe | p. 225 |
| Speical Divine Action and the Laws of Nature | p. 249 |
| Divine Action in an Emergent Cosmos | p. 285 |
| Does God Need Room to Act? Theo-Physical In/Compatibilism in Noninterventionist Theories Of Objectively Special Divine Action | p. 299 |
| Reflections on the VO/CTNS Series on Divine Action from the Perspective of Theology and Science | p. 315 |
| Resources for Further Research | |
| Contributors | p. 333 |
| Name Index | p. 335 |
| Subject Index | p. 340 |
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