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Ontology and Providence in Creation

Author : Mark Ian Thomas Robson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441105611
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Ontology and Providence in Creation written by Mark Ian Thomas Robson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology and Providence in Creation critically examines a particular Leibnizean inspired understanding of God's creation of the world and proposes that a different understanding should be adopted. The Leibnizean argument proposes that God's understanding encompassed a host of possible worlds, only one of which he actualized. This proposition is the current orthodoxy when philosopher and theologians talk about the philosophical understanding of creation. Mark Robson argues that this commits the Leibnizean to the notion that possibility is determinate. He proposes that this understanding of creation does not do justice to the doctrine that God created the world out of nothing. Instead of possible worlds, Robson argues that we should understand possibility as indeterminate. There are no things in possibility, hence God created out of nothing. He examines how this conception of possibility is held by C.S. Peirce and how it was developed by Charles Hartshorne. Robson contends that not only does the indeterminate understanding of possibility take seriously the nothing of ex nihilo, but that it also offers a new solution to the problem of evil.

Ontology and Providence in Creation

Author : Mark Ian Thomas Robson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847062156
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ontology and Providence in Creation written by Mark Ian Thomas Robson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines and rejects a particular philosophical understanding of the processes of creation - ex nihilo, taking into account Leibniz's originating thesis and its development in the modern world.

Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence

Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030757978
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence written by Kelly James Clark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolution to quantum mechanics, randomness has become an essential part of the scientific worldview. An interdisciplinary team of Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars—biologists, physicists, philosophers and theologians—addresses questions of randomness and providence.

American Theological Inquiry, Volume Three, Issue One

Author : Gannon Murphy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725245469
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book American Theological Inquiry, Volume Three, Issue One written by Gannon Murphy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Theological Inquiry (ATI) reaches thousands of Christian scholars, clergy, and other interested parties, primarily in the U.S. and U.K. The journal was formed in 2007 by Gannon Murphy (PhD Theology, Univ. Wales, Lampeter; Presbyterian/Reformed) and Stephen Patrick (PhD Philosophy, Univ. Illinois; Eastern Orthodox) to open up space for Christian scholars who affirm the Ecumenical Creeds to contribute research throughout the broader Christian scholarly community in America and the West. The purpose of ATI is to provide an inter-tradition forum for scholars who affirm the historic Ecumenical Creeds of Christendom to constructively communicate contemporary theologies, developments, ideas, commentaries, and insights pertaining to theology, culture, and history toward reforming and elevating Western Christianity. ATI seeks a critical function as much or more so as a quasi-ecumenical one. The purpose is not to erase or weaken the distinctives of the various ecclesial traditions, but to widen the dialogue and increase inter-tradition understanding while mutually affirming Christ's power to transform culture and the importance of strengthening Western Christianity with special reference to Her historic, creedal roots. "Theologians, would-be theologians, and the theologically attentive will want to check out American Theological Inquiry." ~ Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), First Things

Theologies of Creation

Author : Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134659490
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Theologies of Creation written by Thomas Jay Oord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have long wondered about the origin of the universe. And such questions are especially alive today as physicists offer metaphysical theories to account for the emergence of creation. Theists have attributed the universe’s origin to divine activity, and many have said God created something from absolute nothingness. The venerable doctrine of creatio ex nihilo especially emphasizes God’s initial creating activity. Some contributors to this book explore new reasons creatio ex nihilo should continue to be embraced today. But other contributors question the viability of creation from nothing and offer alternative initial creation options in its place. These new alternatives explore a variety of options in light of recent scientific work, new biblical scholarship, and both new and old theological traditions.

God's Gift of the Universe

Author : Paul O'Callaghan
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813234492
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book God's Gift of the Universe written by Paul O'Callaghan and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways of understanding the reality of the world we live in and experience. Science, philosophy, art all offer us ample descriptions, explanations and intuitions. But Christian believers go beyond all that, for they attempt to understand the origins of the universe in terms of the creation of the world by God. Revelation tells us what God had in mind when he made the world ex nihilo, without presuppositions of any kind. God’s Gift of the Universe attempts to present the principal elements and stages of creation theology. The doctrine is to be found fundamentally, of course, in Scripture, both Old and New Testament, which describes the world in the light of God’s word. Yet since God actually gave existence to the world, down to the last detail, our reflection on God’s word not only explains the reality of creation, how it works, its nature, as science does. It also explains how creation came into being in the mind and heart of the Triune God, and, ultimately, why God created the world. In God’s Gift of the Universe, a considerable effort has been spent throughout the book on the Christological and Trinitarian aspects of creation, particularly in the theology of Church Fathers. Creation is presented besides in a deeply eschatological key, for God created the world for purpose of making his glory eternally manifest. The book also considers the way God ‘intervenes’ in the life of the created world, through conservation in being and providence. The meaning of time, matter and spirit are considered. The need for ecological awareness is central. One aspect of the mystery of creation that receives special attention is the presence of evil in the world. This is of particular importance once we accept that God made the world, whole and entire, thus assuming responsibility for the world as it is. The origin of evil through the sin of spiritual creatures provides the ultimate though not the only explanation of the mystery of evil. Particular consideration is given to the reality of ‘original sin’.

God, Existence, and Fictional Objects

Author : John-Mark L. Miravalle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135006162X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book God, Existence, and Fictional Objects written by John-Mark L. Miravalle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God and fictional objects are central topics within philosophy, but rarely do the respective discussions overlap. Until now the two fields have remained independent. Applying the debate about fictional objects to issues of theology for the first time, John-Mark L. Miravalle bridges these two fields and presents a new approach to notions of God, creatures, and existence. Miravalle explains why meinongianism, which holds that certain things can serve as intentional objects with properties, even though they do not exist, can facilitate talk of nonexistence better than other metaphysical viewpoints, such as platonism, modal realism and pretense-theory. He identifies points of connection between theology and nonexistents and uses meinongianism to buttress the cosmological and ontological arguments for God's existence. As a result he is able to explore fresh solutions to problems of classical theism, from the necessary existence of God and creation ex nihilo to free will and the problem of evil. By revealing how a particular account of fictional objects is especially harmonious with and supportive of the major claims of traditional theism, Miravalle makes a major contribution to theistic metaphysics.

God's Providence and Randomness in Nature

Author : Robert John Russell
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475685
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book God's Providence and Randomness in Nature written by Robert John Russell and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2014, a group of mathematicians, physicists, ecologists, philosophers, and theologians gathered at a special conference in Berkeley, California to present the results of a two-year research program dubbed “Project SATURN”. This program explored many of the rich avenues of thought found at the intersection of modern science and Christian theology. Chief among them is the possibility that certain processes in nature might be so complex that they do not have sufficient physical causes. Known as “ontological indeterminism”, this idea has profound implications for theology. Specifically, it allows God to be thought of as acting providentially within nature without violating the laws and processes of nature. Such a momentous insight could influence how we understand free will, natural evil, suffering in nature, and the relation between divine providence and human evolution. The essays collected here discuss each of these topics and were originally presented at the 2014 conference. Part I establishes the scientific basis for conceptualizing certain process in the universe as inherently random and possibly indeterministic. Part II discusses the philosophical and theological issues that spring from this understanding. Together they represent the cutting edge of thought in the increasingly productive dialogue between science and theology. Short for the “Scientific and Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature”, Project SATURN was created by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, a Program of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. It was funded with a grant administered by Calvin College and provided by the John Templeton Foundation.

The Faithful Creator

Author : Ron Highfield
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830840826
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Faithful Creator written by Ron Highfield and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Paul says in Romans, creation groans for redemption. But can we trust God to make all things new? In this scholarly yet accessible text, Ron Highfield presents an overview of creation, providence and the problem of evil, addressing the question of human anxiety in the face of suffering. Our faithful Creator promises a glorious future for all creation.

Natural and Cosmic Theodicy

Author : Jongseock James Shin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666734926
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Natural and Cosmic Theodicy written by Jongseock James Shin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a third way to envision the Creatorship of the Triune God who is both compassionate and eschatologically redemptive in providential presence, rather than biasedly gravitating toward the openness of a self-limiting God or God’s all-determining sovereignty. Not only is God in, with, and under creation, God’s kenotic presence invites creatures to participate in the self-giving love of God through both general and special divine action in a top-down-through-bottom-up mode. Creatio continua is God’s own journey of fulfilling the eschatological promise for creation. This redemptive presence of God in creation is a Trinitarian co-protesting against the power of death, sin, and evil, considering the cosmic dimensions of the eschatological hope promised in the resurrection of Jesus. The new creation is the ultimate fulfillment of creaturely freedom and contingency divinely granted in creatio ex nihilo. In arguing this, Shin engages in a comparative and critical study of natural and cosmic theodicy advanced by Catherine Keller, Arthur Peacocke, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Robert Russell.

Creation in Paul and Philo

Author : Jonathan D. Worthington
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161508394
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Creation in Paul and Philo written by Jonathan D. Worthington and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's creative activity in the beginning is important to many aspects of Paul's theology. Jonathan Worthington explores Paul's protology by analyzing his interpretation of scripture concerning creation, mainly the beginning of Genesis. By examining Paul's exegetical manoeuvres within 1-2 Corinthians and Romans, and by comparing these with the contemporary but more detailed treatments of the same texts by Philo of Alexandria in his formal commentary on Genesis 1-2, De Opificio Mundi, the author uncovers an approach to creation that is fundamental to both ancient interpreters. Paul's interpretation of creation, like Philo's in his commentary, contains three interwoven aspects: the beginning of the world, the beginning of humanity, and God's intentions before the beginning. Recognizing this basic hermeneutical interplay between the Beginning and the Before facilitates a more appropriate comparison between Paul and Philo as well as a more adequate treatment of difficult and debated passages in both interpreters regarding creation.

Ex Auditu - Volume 03

Author : Thomas W Gillespie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498232574
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Ex Auditu - Volume 03 written by Thomas W Gillespie and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex Auditu began as the journal incorporating the papers of the Fredrick Neumann Symposium of Princeton Theological Seminary. After the first four volumes the journal began publishing the papers from the North Park Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture. The intent from the first has been to provide a forum for doing interdisciplinary theology from a biblical perspective for the benefit of the Church. Each annual publication focuses on a topic crucial to the life of today's Church. Additionally, each issue contains an annotated bibliography and a sermon, which makes it a practical guide for pastors. EDITOR: Dr. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of New Testament North Park Theological Seminary EDITOR EMERITUS: Dr. Klyne R. Snodgrass, Paul W. Brandel Professor of New Testament Studies at North Park Theological Seminary ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Dr. D. Christopher Spinks, Acquisitions Editor at Wipf and Stock Publishers. EDITORIAL BOARD: Terence E. Fretheim, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN; Richard B. Hays, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC; Jon R. Stock, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR; Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT; John Wipf, Wipf and Stock Publishers, Eugene, OR SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: Individuals: U.S.A. and all other countries (in U.S. funds)-$20.00 / Students-$12.00 Institutions: $30 in the U.S., and $40 for international shipments (in U.S. funds) To subscribe: Send pertinent information to Wipf and Stock Publishers at [email protected] and indicate your preferred method of payment. Back issues are available through Wipf and Stock Publishers. Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture at North Park DETAILS: For more information about the symposium click here. INQUIRIES: Other inquiries should be addressed to one of the following: Dr. Dennis Edwards, Associate Professor of New Testament North Park Theological Seminary 3225 W. Foster Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 Telephone: (773) 244-6238 / Email [email protected] Chris Spinks, Acquisitions Editor Wipf and Stock Publishers 199 W. 8th Ave., Ste. 3 Eugene, OR 97401 Telephone: (541) 344-1528 / Fax: (541) 344-1506 / Email: [email protected]

Climate Crisis and Creation Care

Author : Christina Nellist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527575381
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Climate Crisis and Creation Care written by Christina Nellist and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the interconnectedness of all creatures in relation to our planetary boundaries. Through our constant consumption of resources, we have had a distinctly negative impact on the world around us—affecting everything from the weather, food availability, sea levels and the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers ecological, theological and economically sustainable solutions to a global crisis.

Barth's Ontology of Sin and Grace

Author : Shao Kai Tseng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429680783
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Barth's Ontology of Sin and Grace written by Shao Kai Tseng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent Barth studies it has been argued that a key to understanding the theologian’s opposition to natural theology is his rejection of substantialist ontology. While this is true to an extent, this book argues that it is a mistake to see Barth’s ‘actualistic ontology’ as diametrically opposed to traditional substantialism. Probing into Barth’s soteriological hamartiology in Church Dogmatics, III-IV, a largely neglected aspect of these volumes in recent debates on his understanding of being and act, it shows how his descriptions of sin, nature, and grace shed light on the precise manners in which his actualistic ontology operates on both a substance grammar of being and a process grammar of becoming, while rejecting the metaphysics underlying both grammars. Looking at issues such as original sin, universal salvation and human will, Barth is shown to be radically redefining the relationship between humans, their actions and the divine. This book argues that human ‘nature’ is the total determination of the human being ‘from above’ by God’s grace in Christ, while the existential dimension of the human being is also totally determined ‘from below’ by the Adamic history of sin. This serves to demonstrate Barth’s endeavours in eliminating the vestiges of natural theology within the Western tradition handed down from Augustine. By exploring these issues this book offers a fresh insight into Barth’s relationship with his theological forbears. As such, it will be vital reading for any scholar of Barth studies, the problem of evil, and theological ontology.

Creation and Providence

Author : Leo Scheffczyk
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Creation and Providence written by Leo Scheffczyk and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1970 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Semantic Web Programming

Author : John Hebeler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118080602
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Semantic Web Programming written by John Hebeler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next major advance in the Web-Web 3.0-will be built on semantic Web technologies, which will allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Written by a team of highly experienced Web developers, this book explains examines how this powerful new technology can unify and fully leverage the ever-growing data, information, and services that are available on the Internet. Helpful examples demonstrate how to use the semantic Web to solve practical, real-world problems while you take a look at the set of design principles, collaborative working groups, and technologies that form the semantic Web. The companion Web site features full code, as well as a reference section, a FAQ section, a discussion forum, and a semantic blog.

Creation and Transcendence

Author : Paul J. DeHart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567698718
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Creation and Transcendence written by Paul J. DeHart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a creative scholarly argument revisiting the substance, understanding, and implications of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo for contemporary theology and philosophy. Paul J. DeHart examines the special mode of divine transcendence (God's infinity) and investigates areas where accepting an infinite God presents challenging questions to Christian theology. He discusses what "saving knowledge" or "faith" would have to look like when confronted by such an unlimited conception of deity, and ponders how the doctrine of God's trinity can be brought into harmony with radical notions of transcendence, as well as ways the doctrine of creation itself is threatened when the radical otherness of the creator's mind is not maintained. DeHart engages with a diverse range of figures: Jean-Luc Marion, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Kathryn Tanner, John Milbank and Rowan Williams, to illustrate his conviction. This volume deals with deep conceptual issues, indicating that creation ex nihilo remains a lively topic in contemporary theology.