Divine action and modern science
Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world. Nicholas Saunders examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing notion of divine action and identifies several different theological approaches to the p...
| Subtitles: | Divine Action & Modern Science |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2002.
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| In: | Year: 2002 |
| Reviews: | Book review: Nicholas Saunders, Divine Action and Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii and 234 pages. 23.00 (2005) (Schoen, Edward L.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Omnipotence
/ Law of nature
B God / Causality / Indeterminism / Quantum theory / Chaos theory |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521801560 |
| Summary: | Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world. Nicholas Saunders examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing notion of divine action and identifies several different theological approaches to the problem. He considers their theoretical relationships with the laws of nature, indeterminism, and probabilistic causation. His book then embarks on a radical critique of current attempts to reconcile special divine action with quantum theory, chaos theory and quantum chaos. As well as considering the implications of these problems for common interpretations of divine action, Saunders also surveys and codifies the many different theological, philosophical and scientific responses to divine action. The conclusion reached is that we are still far from a satisfactory account of how God might act in a manner that is consonant with modern science despite the copious recent scholarship in this area. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511610033 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511610035 |