The Christian Frame of Mind: Reason, Order, and Openness in Theology and Natural Science

by Torrance, Thomas F.; Neidhardt, W. Jim

• ISBN13: 9781610971676
• ISBN10: 1610971671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

An exhilarating exploration by one of the century's premier theologians of the relationship between science and theology.This collection of essays, which focuses on the themes central to Thomas F. Torrance's life-long work of integrating Judeo-Christian theology and natural science, illuminates the distinctive contribution of the Christian frame of mind to human life and thought particularly in the rise of modern science.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition	p. vii
Preface to the 1985 Edition	p. viii
Introduction	p. xi
The Greek Christian Mind
Saint Basil of Caesarea: Grace, Man, and Reason in a Contingent Creation	p. 1
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: The ôAssumptionö and ôRedemptionö of Man's Fallen Mind	p. 6
Saint John Chrysostom: The ôScriptural Mindö and the ôEconomy of Godö	p. 11
The Concept of Order in Theology and Science
The Presupposition of Order and Its Place in Rational Activity	p. 17
ôThe Kind of Order that Ought to Beö-Theology	p. 19
ôThe Kind of Order that Ought to Beö-Science	p. 21
The Convergence of Science and Theology	p. 24
Case Studies in Convergence-Contingency and Inertia	p. 29
The Word of God-the Ground of Created Rationality	p. 33
Man, Mediator of Order
The Image of Man: Greek and Roman Dualism	p. 35
The Image of Man: The Hebrew Unitary Perspective	p. 36
Hebrew Thought, the Incarnation, and the Concept of ôPersonö	p. 37
Incarnation and Creation: Contingency, Rationality, and the Place of Man in the Universe	p. 41
Unresolved Issues in Modern Scientific Culture	p. 42
On the Boundary: Man as Priest of Creation and Mediator of Order	p. 59
Theological and Scientific Inquiry
Experimental Science and ôCreation out of Nothingö	p. 65
Turning Points in the Advance of Science	p. 66
Fundamental Issues in Theology and Science
The Problems and Promise of the Search for a Unified Field of Knowledge	p. 87
New Wine in Old Wineskins: Unitary Thinking Supplants Rationalist Dichotomies	p. 88
The Atonement and the ôRe-orderingö of Creation	p. 102
Realism and Openness in Scientific Inquiry
The Relations of Kataphatic, Apophatic, and Kataleptic Elements in Theological Epistemology	p. 107
Revolution in the Rational Structure of Science	p. 110
Open-structured Thought-forms in Science	p. 114
Theological and Scientific Inquiry	p. 119
The University within a Christian Culture
Pressures Impinging on the University	p. 125
What a University Is and Ought to Be: Negative Considerations	p. 128
What a University Is and Ought to Be: Positive Considerations	p. 130
Particular Features and Functions of a University	p. 133
Theology, Cultural Unity and the Reemergence of the Universitas	p. 142
Appendix: ôThe Theology of Lightö: A University Sermon	p. 147
Annotated Bibliography	p. 157
Index of Names	p. 163
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