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Creator God, Evolving World

Author : Cynthia S. W. Crysdale
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451426437
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Creator God, Evolving World written by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science. Those who pit faith in an almighty and unchanging God over against a world in which chance is operative have it wrong on several accounts, they insist. Creator God, Evolving World clarifies a number of confused assumptions in an effort to redeem chance as an intelligible force interacting with stable patterns in nature. A proper conception of probabilities and regularities in the world's unfolding reveals neither random chaos nor a predetermined blueprint but a view of the universe as the fruit of both chance and necessity. By clarifying terms often used imprecisely in both scientific and theological discourse, the authors make the case that the role of chance in evolution neither mitigates God's radical otherness from creation nor challenges the efficacy of God's providence in the world.

Transformed Lives

Author : Cynthia S. W. Crysdale
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596272686
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformed Lives by : Cynthia S. W. Crysdale

Download or read book Transformed Lives written by Cynthia S. W. Crysdale and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even theologians have had different ideas about the theology of atonement; how are the rest of supposed to understand it? This book is a good place to start. Crysdale, whose background in both psychology and theology gives her a unique perspective, presents an overview of the history of the theology of atonement, addressing clearly the difficulties around this concept, and bringing us with her to a contemporary understanding.

A Public God

Author : Neil Ormerod
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451469837
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book A Public God written by Neil Ormerod and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversial—it is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics. It is strongly contested by some theologians, such as those influenced by Barth, as well as some philosophers and scientists. This volume steers through these troubled waters, arguing for reclamation of a natural theology that withstands the challenges from within and without the Christian tradition and accrues to a vital public and political witness.

The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology

Author : Michael J. Dodds, OP
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813232872
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology by : Michael J. Dodds, OP

Download or read book The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology written by Michael J. Dodds, OP and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fundamental introduction to Aquinas's theology of the One Creator God. Aimed at making that thought accessible to contemporary audiences, it gives a basic explanation of his theology while showing its compatibility with contemporary science and its relevance to current theological issues. Opening with a brief account of Aquinas’s life, it then describes the purpose and nature of the Summa Theologica and gives a short review of current varieties of Thomism. Without neglecting other works, it then focuses primarily on the discussion of the One God in the first part of the Summa Theologica. God's transcendence and immanence is a recurrent theme in that discussion. Evidence of God's immanent causality in the natural world grounds Aquinas's five arguments for the existence of God (the Five Ways) which then open onto God's transcendence. The subsequent discussion of the divine attributes builds on the modes of God's causality established in the Five Ways. It also shows the need for a language of analogy to preserve God's transcendence and prevent us from reducing God to the level of creatures, even as qualities such as "goodness" and "love," which we first know from creatures, are applied to God. The discussion of God's providence and governance establishes that the transcendent Creator God is most intimately present in creation. God acts in all creatures in a way that does not diminish their proper causality, but is rather its source. As there is no contradiction between God's transcendence and immanence, so there is no competition between the primary causality of God and the secondary causality of creatures. Empirical science, which is limited by its method to the secondary causality of creatures, is shown to be compatible with the broader discipline of theology which also embraces the primary causality of the Creator.

Partaking of God

Author : Denis Edwards
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814682529
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Partaking of God written by Denis Edwards and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God? Partaking of Godbuilds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the divine Attractor and the Spirit as the Energy of Love in evolutionary emergence. Then it explores God's suffering with creatures, the humility of God in creation, church teaching on the human soul in relation to neuroscience, and grace and original sin in relationship to evolution. It culminates in a Christian theology of ecological conversion.

Re-Imagining Nature

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119046378
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining Nature written by Alister E. McGrath and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world’s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets

Bernard Lonergan's Method and a Medical Doctor's Approach to Healthcare

Author : John Raymaker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725293536
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Lonergan's Method and a Medical Doctor's Approach to Healthcare written by John Raymaker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?

Evolutionary Theology

Author : Michael Anthony Abril
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506491642
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Theology written by Michael Anthony Abril and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last century witnessed an explosion of theologies born out of the conviction that the science of evolution can and must contribute to our understandings of God, humanity, technology, suffering, sin, and the natural world. Even today, a sense of development continues to shape contemporary understandings of not only our origins, but also our place in the world now and in the future. Evolutionary theology's popularity continues to accelerate, but the conversation has lacked a critical, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to this field--until now. Evolutionary Theology provides a clear, critical, and concise synthesis of the most influential viewpoints in the field--from its origins in the eighteenth century to its maturation in the twenty-first. Topics include scientific contributions, philosophical ideas, dogmatic debates, and the development of process theology. Abril provides a springboard for researchers, teachers, and college students to critically engage the existing literature and develop new, constructive ideas. Evolutionary Theology is accessible to students, is helpful to scholars, and includes a wide range of perspectives from science, philosophy, and theology--Catholic and Protestant. It illustrates how integrating faith with science, as an inescapable and crucial dimension of modern life, leads to both fruitful discoveries and important challenges.

Listening to the Bible

Author : Christopher Bryan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199336598
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Bible written by Christopher Bryan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Bryan reflects on the often-difficult relationship between academic study of the Bible and the Church, and suggests a way forward in which scientific questions are not to be ignored, but in asking them we are not to ignore the texts' setting-in-life, which is and has always been the believing community.

Neanderthal Religion?

Author : Thomas Hughson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Neanderthal Religion? written by Thomas Hughson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neanderthals are the most-researched extinct members of genus Homo. They have been gone for between 28,000 and 40,000 years, far beyond the reach of cultural memories. An expanding number of archaeologists conclude that Neanderthals are, as genetics confirms, co-human with us whose lineage emerged in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Were they the same as us? No. Do archaeological discoveries of tools and behavioral clues indicate what may have been Neanderthal religion? Taking religion as spirituality realized in common, Hughson answers the controversial question with a conjecture assisted by anthropology. Neanderthals were hunter-gatherer animists associated with bears, burials, defleshed bones, and care for invalids. Hughson goes further, exploring a theology of Neanderthal animism. He argues it was an early, non-verbal revelation of the divine. Experiential consciousness of being-alive meshed with all living things in one web of life that exceeded any living individual. Neanderthals encountered the source of being-alive filtered through nature and the cosmos. Far from complete, the encounter may have had an acuity lost to modernity and many Christians. The book concludes by relating Neanderthal religion to special revelation and biblical faith, with attention to the Gospel of John on the divine Logos and Aquinas on divine immanence.

Political Economy as Natural Theology

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351686038
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Political Economy as Natural Theology written by Paul Oslington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 20th century, economics has been the dominant discourse in English-speaking countries, displacing Christian theology from its previous position of authority. This path-breaking book is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue between economics and religion. Oslington tells the story of natural theology shaping political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasising continuing significance of theological issues for the discipline of economics. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke, William Paley, TR Malthus, Richard Whately, JB Sumner, Thomas Chalmers and William Whewell, extended the British scientific natural theology tradition of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton to the social world. This extension nourished and shaped political economy as a discipline, influencing its theoretical framework, but perhaps more importantly helping legitimate political economy in the British universities and public policy circles. Educating the public in the principles of political economy had a central place in this religiously driven program. Natural theology also created tensions (especially reconciling economic suffering with divine goodness and power) that eventually contributed to its demise and the separation of economics from theology in mid-19th-century Britain. This volume highlights aspects of the story that are neglected in standard histories of economics, histories of science and contemporary theology. Political Economy as Natural Theology is essential reading for all concerned with the origins of economics, the meaning and purpose of economic activity and the role of religion in contemporary policy debates.

Discerning Church, A

Author : Whelan, Gerard, SJ
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587688387
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Discerning Church, A written by Whelan, Gerard, SJ and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Discerning Church presents a theological model for these changing times. It examines the thought of Bernard Lonergan and offers an assessment of the significance of Pope Francis and the church since the Second Vatican Council. It then explores major insights and issues such as ecclesial reform, globalization, and sexuality, that will impact the future of the church.

A Science-Theology Rapprochement

Author : Cyril Orji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527519104
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book A Science-Theology Rapprochement written by Cyril Orji and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and fascinating work addresses questions of ultimate concerns for Christian believers by clarifying what religious believers’ statement “God creates” means in relation to the mechanistic determinism of science enthusiasts and the New Atheist Movement. Drawing from the methodological works of C.S. Peirce, Bernard Lonergan, and Wolfhart Pannenberg, the book creatively shows how the old science-theology conflict, or “warfare”, can be turned into one of collaboration or rapprochement. Using the works of these three thinkers, it departs from the common practice of treating the field of science-theology as an abstract mainstream theology. The book takes a stand on contextual theology, treating the problem posed by Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists as one in need of a creative solution. It also suggests that the dialogue between science and theology must take seriously the experiences and challenges from different social and cultural contexts. The text shows how these experiences can lead to the kind of creative theological thinking we see in the works of Pannenberg and Lonergan, who both explicate, not only how an understanding of an evolutionary universe is compatible with the Christian doctrine of creation, but also how a methodological comparison of science and theology reveals a common concern for human understanding and openness to divine agency.

Conversion as Transformation

Author : Dominic Arcamone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532678924
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Conversion as Transformation written by Dominic Arcamone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of human transformation is complex and ongoing. This book presents a framework for understanding human transformation through the insights of Bernard Lonergan. The reader will be introduced to terms such as the turn to the subject, consciousness, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. It will explore terms such as horizon, feelings, values, self-esteem, sublation, conversion, dialectic, and religious experience. The book explores transformation through the way mentors have authored their own lives, told their own stories, and taken possession of their interiority. Transformation is illustrated through the lives of saints and ordinary men and women who did extraordinary things, such as St. Augustine, Dag Hammarskjold, Vaclav Havel, Franz Jaggerstatter, St. Therese of Lisieux, Fredrich Nietzsche, Katherine Ann Power, and Marie Cardinal. Transformation is also illustrated through the medium of cinema: Babette’s Feast, The Mission, As It is in Heaven, Romero, Dead Poets Society, Ordinary People, The Godfather trilogy, Three Color trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dial M for Murder, and Twelve Angry Men. While the book treats religious, moral, affective, intellectual, and psychic conversion as moments of transformation, it argues that ecological conversion requires all of these so as to meet the most serious moral challenge of our time.

Revise for Religious Studies GCSE for AQA Specification A

Author : Gordon Geddes
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435306984
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Revise for Religious Studies GCSE for AQA Specification A written by Gordon Geddes and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide was written by senior examiners in Religious Studies and includes some practical advice to help students understand what they need to prepare. It also contains three types of practice questions and checklists for each chapter.

Philosophical Anthropology

Author : Jose Angel Lombo
Publisher : Midwest Theological Forum
ISBN 13 : 1939231876
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Anthropology written by Jose Angel Lombo and published by Midwest Theological Forum. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, written by professors of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the University of Trieste, examines the nature of the human person, the human condition, and what it means to be truly human. Drawing from classical as well as modern philosophy and science, they present a comprehensive and fascinating reflection on human existence, especially characterized by the use of freedom.

Theology, Evolution and the Mind

Author : Neil Spurway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810169
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Theology, Evolution and the Mind written by Neil Spurway and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-scientific thought mind itself, and its religious perceptions particularly, were considered gifts from God, injected into a previously created world of matter. By contrast, all the contributors to this book accept an evolutionary account of life, mind and its religious dispositions. However they hold more divergent views on the relation of mind to body and brain, on the validity of those religious dispositions, and on how far even Christ, and his predicted Second Coming, may be seen as aspectc of the evolutionary process. The seventeen contributions are rewritten and extended versions of papers first delivered at the annual conference of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum, held at Canterbury Christ Church College in Sept 2007. Though most speakers were British, representatives from The Netherlands, Jordan, Zimbabwe and USA also contributed. Invited individual chapters consider the general pattern of evolutionary thought, arguing that it can make a major contribution to the maturation of theology; archeological evidence for the emergence of religion, and the proposal that it was an inevitable phase in human evolution; the contribution of religious concepts to the development of our species, and the question whether that provides any ground for accepting them as true; the unresolved debate whether mind is a separate entity from brain, or a consequence of its activity; and the melding of paleo-anthropology with theology to provide an integrated account of humanity and its culmination in Christ. Each of these papers is the subject of an individual expert response, and they are all drawn together in an overview essay which concludes the first part of the book. The second, shorter part contains a selection from the papers contributed by registrants for the meeting. Their topics are whether mathematics consists of truths discovered, or thought-forms developed, by human minds; ecological awareness as an evolutionary development; the neurobiology of freewill and sin; an evolutionary perspective on holistic medicine; and the impressive fruitfulness of juxtaposing neurophysiological and biblical concepts of the human body-mind.