Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming--natural, Divine, and Human

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Fortress Press, 1993 - 438 страници
This second, expanded edition of Arthur Peacocke's seminal work now includes the author's Gifford Lectures, as well as a new part three, in which he deals roundly with the central corpus of Christian belief for a scientific age. "Distinctively theological commitments are being rethought in light of scientific apprehensions of nature".--Ted Peters, Zygon.
 

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2 Revelation and human experience
194
3 How does God communicate with humanity?
200
Natural Human Being the perspectives of the sciences and their implications for theology
211
foci of interest and hierarchies of complexity
212
2 The physical basis of human being Level 1
216
3 Human beings as living organisms Level 2
217
4 Human beings in the perspectives of sciences bridging the biological and the behavioural between levels 2 and 3
221
5 The sciences and human behaviour Level 3
230

Whos There?
70
1 Human personhood
71
2 Conditions for the emergence of persons
75
What Does It All Mean?
79
Divine Being and Becoming
83
Asking Why? The Search for Intelligibility and Meaning
85
God as Response to the Search for Intelligibility and Meaning
89
2 God in Christian belief
92
The Concept of God Implications of Scientific Perspectives
97
1 Divine being
99
2 Divine becoming
111
Gods Interaction with the World
133
2 How God might interact with the world in the perspectives of science
149
3 Models of Gods interaction with the world
164
special providence and miracles
175
Conclusion to Part II
182
Human Being and Becoming
187
Gods Communication with Humanity
189
6 The social sciences between levels 3 and 4
237
7 Human culture and its products Level 4
240
8 The theology of human being in the light of the sciences
243
9 The paradox of human becoming
246
The Long Search and Jesus of Nazareth
253
2 The religious quest
256
3 Who is Jesus of Nazareth?
259
Divine Being becoming Human
288
2 How could God communicate through Jesus?
293
3 Gods selfexpression in Jesus the Christ
298
Divine Meaning and Human Becoming
310
2 The divine meaning for human becoming
313
3 The divine initiative for human becoming
317
LENVOI the Divine Means for and the End of Human Becoming
336
Postscript
345
Notes
348
Index
431
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