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9780198266587

Divine and Contingent Order

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198266587

  • ISBN10:

    0198266588

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-12-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines the implications for our understanding of the universe of the Judaeo-Christian claim that it is contingent: freely created by God out of nothing, and having an existence, freedom, and rational order of its own while still dependent on God.The author argues that this claim made possible the development of western empirical science, but that Newtonian physics obscured the connection between the rational order of nature and the Christian doctrine of creation. He then shows how modern relativity and quantum theories have once again drawn attention to the significance of contingence, and imply that the universe is found to be consistently rational only if it is dependent on a creative rationality beyond it.

Table of Contents

Determinism and Creation
1(25)
God and the Contingent Universe
26(36)
Theological and Scientific World-Views
62(23)
Contingence and Disorder
85(58)
From Contingence to Necessity
85(12)
From Necessity to Contingence
97(16)
Disorder
113(15)
Man's Priestly and Redemptive Role in the World
128(15)
Notes 143(18)
Index 161

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