RT Article
T1 Emergence from Physics to Theology: Toward a Panoramic View
JF Zygon
VO 41
IS 3
SP 675
OP 688
A1 Clayton, Philip 1956-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827958618
AB Abstract. At its best, the emergence debate provides a helpful model of what religion-science scholarship can and should involve. (At its worst it represents the faddishness and bandwagon effects to which our field is also prone.) Those involved in the debate must pay close attention to concrete theories and results in the natural sciences. They rely on the careful conceptual distinctions that philosophers of science draw concerning complexity, novelty, and organization. The resulting views about human mentality and consciousness are tested against these results and checked for their adequacy to the phenomena of human experience. Emergentist theories of nature and personhood have entailments for one's theory of religion and for theological reflection; conversely, theological accounts may constrain one's interpretation of emergent phenomena. In my response to the four symposiasts I draw out these deeper dimensions of the emergence debate.
K1 transcendence versus immanence
K1 theory of evolution
K1 Theological Anthropology
K1 Physicalism
K1 philosophy of science
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Neuroscience
K1 Stuart Kauffman
K1 God-world relation
K1 Emergence
K1 Divine Action
K1 Terrence Deacon
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00768.x