RT Article
T1 Substance or System as Foundational Metaphor for a Contemporary Christian World View?
JF Theology and science
VO 15
IS 3
SP 352
OP 366
A1 Bracken, Joseph A. 1930-
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1639441174
AB Natural scientists increasingly employ the notion of system, i.e. organized groups of individual entities in dynamic interrelation, as a controlling metaphor in their analysis of physical reality, thereby reflecting a new emphasis on ecology and a holistic approach to reality. A.N. Whitehead’s understanding of the reciprocal cause-and-effect relation between constituent actual entities and the governing structure of the “society” to which they belong provides philosophical grounding for this new methodology and removes the danger of regarding systems as completely deterministic rather than open-ended and self-organizing. Likewise, a systems-oriented approach to the Christian doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation and Eschatology clears up residual ambiguities in the traditional understanding of those same beliefs.
K1 Deacon, Terrence
K1 emergence theory
K1 Eschatology
K1 Hoffmeyer, Jesper
K1 Incarnation
K1 Kauffman, Stuart
K1 Panpsychism
K1 reciprocal causation
K1 Trinity
K1 universal intersubjectivity
K1 Whitehead, A.N
DO 10.1080/14746700.2017.1335501