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Author : Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Science, Chance, and Providence written by Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science, Chance, and Providence written by Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Hickman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387101X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Chance or Providence written by Louise Hickman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in some sort of providence is widespread, even among those who do not profess any kind of conventional religious faith. The belief that some sort of benevolent divine force directs the events of the universe is one that has shaped our philosophical and theological convictions, together with our economic and social political landscape. The 2013 conference of the Science and Religion Forum was convened to discuss some of the most pressing questions that arise from a consideration of providence: Is a belief in providence compatible with freedom? What of the suffering of non-human creatures? Should providence be thought of as general or as special intervention? How might a belief in providence be squared with the challenges raised by scientific naturalism and the theory of evolution? This book presents chapters that originated from that conference, and explores a variety of responses to these critical questions. Insights from both science and theology are drawn together by some of the leading thinkers in this field. The result is a contribution to the theology of providence which will be of substantial value to all those interested in the conversation between science and religion.
Author : John C. Polkinghorne
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599470845
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Science and Providence written by John C. Polkinghorne and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned priest-scientist Dr. John C. Polkinghorne examines whether a personal, interacting God is a credible concept in today's scientific age. Encouraging the belief that there is a compatibility between the insights of science and the insights of religion, this book, previously published in the United Kingdom, focuses on the viewpoint that the world is one in which both human beings and God have the freedom to act. A modern understanding of the physical world is applied to questions of prayer and providence, such as: Do miracles happen? Can prayer change anything? Why does evil exist? Why does God allow suffering? Why does God need us to ask him? God's involvement in time is considered, from both a temporal and an eternal perspective. The roles of incarnation and sacrament are discussed in terms of whether or not they have a credible place in today's worldview. And the Final Anthropic Principle (FAP) is presented, with its attempt at a physical eschatology, showing it to be an inadequate basis for hope. Real hope can reside only with God, Polkinghorne concludes.
Author : William G. Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781376135152
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Chance and Providence Gods Action in a World Governed by Scientific Law written by William G. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Grosvenor Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chance and Providence written by William Grosvenor Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William G Pollard
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781298022028
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Chance and Providence Gods Action in a World Governed by Scientific Law - Scholar's Choice Edition written by William G Pollard and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Margo Todd
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Providence, chance and the new science in early Stuart Cambridge written by Margo Todd and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert John Russell
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475685
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)
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.
Author : John C. Polkinghorne
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781599470849
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Science and Providence written by John C. Polkinghorne and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned priest-scientist Dr. John C. Polkinghorne examines whether a personal, interacting God is a credible concept in today's scientific age. Encouraging the belief that there is a compatibility between the insights of science and the insights of religion, this book, previously published in the United Kingdom, focuses on the viewpoint that the world is one in which both human beings and God have the freedom to act. A modern understanding of the physical world is applied to questions of prayer and providence, such as: Do miracles happen? Can prayer change anything? Why does evil exist? Why does God allow suffering? Why does God need us to ask him? God's involvement in time is considered, from both a temporal and an eternal perspective. The roles of incarnation and sacrament are discussed in terms of whether or not they have a credible place in today's worldview. And the Final Anthropic Principle (FAP) is presented, with its attempt at a physical eschatology, showing it to be an inadequate basis for hope. Real hope can reside only with God, Polkinghorne concludes.
Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030757978
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
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.
Author : Karl W. Giberson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190277173
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Abraham's Dice written by Karl W. Giberson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is "God's will","karma", or "fate," we want to believe that nothing in the world, especially disasters and tragedies, is a random, meaningless event. But now, as never before, confident scientific assertions that the world embodies a profound contingency are challenging theological claims that God acts providentially in the world. The random and meandering path of evolution is widely used as an argument that God did not create life. Abraham's Dice explores the interplay between chance and providence in the monotheistic religious traditions, looking at how their interaction has been conceptualized as our understanding of the workings of nature has changed. This lively historical conversation has generated intense ongoing theological debates, and provocative responses from science: what are we to make of the history of our universe, where chance and law have played out in complex ways? Or the evolution of life, where random mutations have challenged attempts to find purpose within evolution and convinced many that human beings are but a "glorious accident"? The enduring belief that everything happens for a reason is examined through a conversation with major scholars, among them holders of prestigious chairs at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and the University of Basel, as well as several Gifford lecturers, and two Templeton prize winners. Organized historically, Abraham's Dice provides a wide-ranging scientific, theological, and biblical foundation to address the question of providence and divine action in a world shot through with contingency.
Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628929863
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Evolution, Chance, and God written by Brendan Sweetman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are difficult to keep separate from each other. Evolution, Chance, and God introduces the reader to the main themes of this debate and to the theory of evolution, while arguing for a particular viewpoint, namely that evolution and religion are compatible, and that, contrary to the views of some influential thinkers, there is no chance operating in the theory of evolution, a conclusion that has great significance for teleology. One of the main aims of this book is not simply to critique one influential contemporary view that evolution and religion are incompatible, but to explore specific ways of how we might understand their compatibility, as well as the implications of evolution for religious belief. This involves an exploration of how and why God might have created by means of evolution, and what the consequences in particular are for the status of human beings in creation, and for issues such as free will, the objectivity of morality, and the problem of evil. By probing how the theory of evolution and religion could be reconciled, Sweetman says that we can address more deeply key foundational questions concerning chance, design, suffering and morality, and God's way of acting in and through creation.
Author : Jonathan Doye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Chance, Providence and Free Will written by Jonathan Doye and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William G. Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Chance and providence : God s action in a world governed by scientific thought written by William G. Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William G. Pollard
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294779001
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Chance and Providence Gods Action in a World Governed by Scientific Law - Primary Source Edition written by William G. Pollard and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Terrance L. Tiessen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083087660X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Providence and Prayer written by Terrance L. Tiessen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the view that God does not intervene in the world to the view that God is the only effective agent in the working of his will, Terrance Tiessen identifies ten views of providence and adds his own.
