Robert John Russell Versus the New Atheists

Abstract. This essay compares Robert John Russell's work in his recent book Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science (2008) to that of the authors known collectively as “the new atheists.” I treat the latter as recent contributors to the modern trad...

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1. VerfasserIn: Murphy, Nancey C. 1951- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Zygon
Jahr: 2010, Band: 45, Heft: 1, Seiten: 193-212
weitere Schlagwörter:B Daniel Dennett
B Atheism
B Alasdair MacIntyre
B Richard Dawkins
B Tradition
B Divine Action
B Sam Harris
B Naturalism
B Christopher Hitchens
B Robert John Russell
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. This essay compares Robert John Russell's work in his recent book Cosmology from Alpha to Omega: The Creative Mutual Interaction of Theology and Science (2008) to that of the authors known collectively as “the new atheists.” I treat the latter as recent contributors to the modern tradition of scientific naturalism. This tradition makes claims to legitimacy on the basis of its close relations to the natural sciences. The purpose of this essay is to show up the poverty of the naturalist tradition's scientific credentials by contrasting it with Russell's careful account of positive relations between science and Christian theology.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01066.x