In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being : Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World

by Clayton, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780802809780
• ISBN10: 0802809782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-02
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Mary Ann Meyers
Summaries of the Contributions to This Volume	x
Introduction: ``In whom we live and move and have our being''?	xviii
Arthur Peacocke
Naming a Quiet Revolution: The Panentheistic Turn in Modern Theology	1	(18)
Michael W. Brierley
I. Panentheistic Interpretations of the God-World Relationship
Three Varieties of Panentheism	19	(17)
Niels Henrik Gregersen
Panentheism: A Postmodern Revelation	36	(12)
David Ray Griffin
Theistic Naturalism and the Word Made Flesh: Complementary Approaches to the Debate on Panentheism	48	(14)
Christopher C. Knight
The World as the Body of God: A Panentheistic Metaphor	62	(11)
Keith Ward
Panentheism in Metaphysical and Scientific Perspective	73	(22)
Philip Clayton
II. Scientific Perspectives on the God-World Relation
Teleology without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity	95	(14)
Paul Davies
God in and beyond Space and Time	109	(12)
Russell Stannard
Emergence of Humans and the Neurobiology of Consciousness	121	(10)
Robert L. Herrmann
The ``Trinitarian'' World of Neo-Pantheism: On Panentheism and Epistemology	131	(6)
Harold J. Morowitz
Articulating God's Presence in and to the World Unveiled by the Sciences	137	(20)
Arthur Peacocke
III. Theological Perspectives on the God-World Relation
Eastern Orthodox
God Immanent yet Transcendent: The Divine Energies according to Saint Gregory Palamas	157	(12)
Kallistos Ware
The Universe as Hypostatic Inherence in the Logos of God: Panentheism in the Eastern Orthodox Perspective	169	(15)
Alexei V. Nesteruk
The Cosmic Vision of Saint Maximos the Confessor	184	(15)
Andrew Louth
Western Christian
A Relational and Evolving Universe Unfolding within the Dynamism of the Divine Communion	199	(12)
Denis Edwards
Panentheism: A Field-Oriented Approach	211	(11)
Joseph A. Bracken
Panentheism and Pansyntheism: God in Relation	222	(11)
Ruth Page
The Logos as Wisdom: A Starting Point for a Sophianic Theology of Creation	233	(16)
Celia E. Deane-Drummond
IV. Afterword
Panentheism Today: A Constructive Systematic Evaluation	249	(16)
Philip Clayton
Contributors	265	(7)
Endnotes	272	(47)
Index	319