Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
Title | Naturalism in the Christian Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Peter N. Jordan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2022-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009211986 |
A compelling contribution to 'science and religion' debates, showing how early modern thinkers reconciled naturalism with a providential world view.
Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
Title | Naturalism in the Christian Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Peter N. Jordan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Religion and science |
ISBN | 9781009211956 |
Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who - like the author of this book - recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of modern science, has a far richer relationship to religion than many have allowed. Peter Jordan now takes this recognition in fresh and exciting directions. Focusing on key thinkers in early modern England, who located causality within a divine and providential view of the cosmos, he shows how they were able to integrate ideas which today might be dichotomised as 'scientific' and 'religious'. His book makes a compelling contribution to current science and religion debates and their history.
The Image in Mind
Title | The Image in Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Taliaferro |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441148825 |
A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.
The Christian Imagination
Title | The Christian Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Leland Ryken |
Publisher | Shaw Books |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2011-12-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0307568849 |
The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
New Essays in Religious Naturalism
Title | New Essays in Religious Naturalism PDF eBook |
Author | Creighton Peden |
Publisher | Mercer University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780865544260 |
"The essays in this volume were selected from those presented at a Conference on American Religious Thought sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, at Highlands, North Carolina." "The Highlands Institute is a community of productive scholars with diverse theological and philosophical perspectives. The Institute contributes to the academic study of religion through interpretive, critical, and constructive reflections whose principal focus is on distinctively American religious thought. It fosters broad discussion of relevant options through its sponsorship of conferences, seminars, workshops, and publications." "The work of the Institute emphasizes (1) the interface between theology and philosophy, especially where theological efforts have utilized the American philosophical tradition; (2) the history and development of liberal religious thought in America; (3) themes pertinent to the "Chicago School" of theology, and (4) naturalism in American theology and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The God of Covenant and Creation
Title | The God of Covenant and Creation PDF eBook |
Author | Larry S. Chapp |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-05-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567331822 |
Larry Chapp develops a true "theology of nature" that begins and ends with strictly confessional Christian warrants. He begins by showing how modern naturalism arose out of a theological matrix and how it lost its way specifically as naturalism as soon as it rejected that theological matrix. Indeed, modern naturalism is not so much a-theological as it is a rival theology to that of the Church. All claims of ultimacy, including those of natural science, have inherently theological orientations embedded within them - however unconsciously. Therefore, what confronts us in the modern world is not so much a choice between a non-theological naturalism and a theological naturalism. Rather, what confronts us is a choice between two rival theologies - one agnostic and a-theistic in its implications while the other is revelocentric and Christian.
Naturalism and Religion
Title | Naturalism and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Otto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Naturalism |
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