In Defence of Stillness: On Entropy, Heat Death, and Doxology
Recent theological interpretations of entropy are almost univocally negative. Entropy is used as a stand-in for disorder, corruption, and evil. Responding to three reasons to correlate entropy and evil, this paper will argue instead that entropy is a good-but-fallen creaturely reality with a role to...
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2024
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Theology and science
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 378–392 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science NBC Doctrine of God |
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heat death
B Providence B figural interpretation B Entropy B second law of thermodynamics B Doxology |
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