The Life and Works of a Bottom-Up Thinker
A brief account is given of the author's life as a physicist and then a priest. The twin foundations of the author's theological endeavors have been a respect for traditional Christian thinking, though not exempting it from revision where this is needed, and a style of argument termed bott...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
2000
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Zygon
Year: 2000, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 955-962 |
Further subjects: | B
chaos theory
B John Polkinghorne B Nicene Christianity B Science and religion B EPR effect B bottom-up thinking B Realism B Divine Action B world faiths B Natural Theology B Eschatology B Dualism |
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Summary: | A brief account is given of the author's life as a physicist and then a priest. The twin foundations of the author's theological endeavors have been a respect for traditional Christian thinking, though not exempting it from revision where this is needed, and a style of argument termed bottom-up thinking, which seeks to proceed from experience to understanding. The diversity of the world faith traditions is perceived as a major source of perplexity. A revised and modest natural theology and the issue of divine action have been at the top of a science and theology agenda. A defense is sketched in realist terms of the metaphysical strategy of using an ontological interpretation of the unpredictabilities of chaos theory to support a notion of top-down causality through active information. The success of Christian theology as a resource of total explanation depends on a credible account of eschatological hope. Reference is made to practical experience of ethics in the public square. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9744.00325 |