Science And Theology: The New Consonance

by Peters,Ted

• ISBN13: 9780813332598
• ISBN10: 0813332591
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How can we think about God's action in a quantum world of indeterminacy? in a world that began with a Big Bang? in a world in which life evolved and is continually evolving? in a world governed by entropy and heading toward its eventual heat death? These are some of the most perplexing questions that have arisen from the rapid scientific and technological advances of the twentieth century.Science and Theology: The New Consonancegrapples with these seeming conundrums by asking both scientists and religious thinkers to reflect upon possible solutions. In this exciting, new edited volume, physicists think about the connection between physics and faith and biologists discuss evolution, ethics, and the future. Complementing these viewpoints, theologians address these same issues from a religious standpoint.Chapter authors include Nobel Prizewinning physicist and inventor of the laser, Charles Townes, along with Pope John Paul II. The resulting interplay between science and theology presses toward consonance, encouraging comparisons, crossovers, and complementarity.

Author Biography

Ted Peters is a professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and a research scholar at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Science and Theology: Toward Consonance	p. 11
Physics and Faith
Logic and Uncertainties in Science and Religion	p. 43
From Physicist to Priest	p. 56
Is the Universe Absurd?	p. 65
Does the "God Who Acts" Really Act in Nature?	p. 77
Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics	p. 103
Evolution, Ethics, and Eschatology
So Human an Animal: Evolution and Ethics	p. 121
Human Life: Creation Versus Evolution?	p. 137
Evolution and the Living God	p. 149
Evolution and the Human Person: The Pope in Dialogue	p. 153
Biological Evolution and the Human Soul: A Theological Proposal for Generationism	p. 162
Biocultural Evolution and the Created Co-Creator	p. 174
A Map of Scientific Knowledge: Genetics, Evolution, and Theology	p. 189
The Greening of Science, Theology, and Ethics	p. 211
Evolution, Tragedy, and Hope	p. 228
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 245
Credits	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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