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The “Book of Nature” TraditionScience and the Prerequisites for the Possibility of SpiritualityIntroducing Science into SpiritualityThe Mathematical Laws of Nature and the Ascent to God as TranscendentThe Expanded Experience of Nature and the Immanence of God in the WorldScience and Creation ex nihiloQuantum Mechanics and Special RelativityBiological Evolution and God's Action as CreatorChristian Spirituality in Light of Humanity's Evolutionary OriginsThe Cosmological Far Future and the Experience of Resurrection FaithConclusion
This book provides a new introduction to the study of Christian spirituality, exploring it through the human sciences and ranging from philosophy and hermeneutics to psychology, history, sociology and anthropology. Systematic and progressive, it introduces the key approaches and shows how they relate to the understanding, study and practice of spirituality. Covering a vast amount of ground - from traditional themes such as images of God, spiritual direction and pilgrimage to more contemporary issues, such as place and space, cyberspace and postcolonialism - the author takes an ecumenical, inclusive stance, allowing the book to be used in a wide variety of courses and across denominations.
This article examines the application of the Anatomy Act (1832) at Oxford University, circa 1885-1929. For the first time it retraces the economy of supply in dead bodies, sold by various black-market intermediaries and welfare agencies, transported on the railway to Oxford. Both pauper cadavers and body parts were used to train doctors in human anatomy at a time when student demand always exceeded the economy of supply. An added problem was that the trade in dead bodies was disrupted by a city coroner for Oxford in a bid to improve his professional standing. Disputes about medico-legal authority over the pauper corpse meant that the Anatomy Department failed to convince the local poor in the city center to sell their loved ones' remains for dissection on a regular basis. Adverse publicity was a constant financial headache for anatomists. Consistently, they had to pay higher prices for cadavers than their competitors did. Often bodies were purchased in surrounding Midlands towns. This context explains why the Anatomy Department at Oxford failed at the business of anatomy in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras.
The term postmodern is generally used to refer to current work in philosophy, literary criticism, and feminist thought inspired by Continental thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida. In this book, Nancey Murphy appropriates the term to describe emerging patterns in Anglo-American thought and to indicate their radical break from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity.The book examines the shift from modern to postmodern in three areas: epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Murphy contends that whole clusters of terms in each of these disciplines have taken on new uses in the past fifty years and that these changes have radical consequences for all areas of academia, especially in philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and ethics. The term postmodern is generally used to refer to current work in philosophy, literary criticism, and feminist thought inspired by Continental thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida. In this book, Nancey Murphy appropriates the term to describe emerging patterns in Anglo-American thought and to indicate their radical break from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity. The book examines the shift from modern to postmodern in three areas: epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Murphy contends that whole clusters of terms in each of these disciplines have taken on new uses in the past fifty years and that these changes have radical consequences for all areas of academia, especially in philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and ethics.
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Packed in this little book, very neatly and in perfect order, are the conceptual foundations of the theories which dominate 20th century physics: electromagnetic theory, relativity theory and quantum theory. The underlying theme throughout the book is the concept of field.
It is not at all clear that the notion of Divine action makes any sense, or what sort of sense it makes. If it makes no sense, the Christian faith may for a while cling on to a tenuous and marginal existence as a set of legends outlining an optical policy of life. But it will eventually evaporate to take its place with the great legends of Greek and Roman mythology, its policy of life at last becoming as quaint and archaic as that of ancient Athens. It is therefore a matter of vital importance to examine the idea of Divine action, starting again from first principles, to discover what may be said of it in view of the many difficulties raised in the modern age.
Challenged by Lynn White's sharp criticism of Christianity's responsibility for earth's ecological crisis, both Ian Barbour and Philip Hefner have proposed theological anthropologies based upon the imago Dei that supports an ecological ethic. Russell, while supporting the ecological ethic, turns not to anthropology but rather to eschatology and the proleptic vision of a new creation.
When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.
This book presents an up-to-date study of the interaction between the fast-growing discipline of artificial intelligence and other human endeavors. The volume explores the scope and limitations of computing, and presents a history of the debate on the possibility of machines achieving intelligence. The authors offer a state-of-the-art survey of Al, concentrating on the ''mind'' (language understanding) and the ''body'' (robotics) of intelligent computing systems.
The Issue of Self-implicationSpirituality as a Field of StudyThree Approaches to the Study of Christian SpiritualityThe theological approachThe anthropological approachInteraction of the approachesThe Issue of Self-implicationThe critical use of experiencePersonal experience as dataThe transformative potential of the study of spirituality
In this volume, the second of his three-volume reinterpretation of Christian theology, Paul Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his systemâthe doctrine of the Christ. Man's predicament is described as the state of "estrangement" from himself, from his world, and from the divine ground of his self and his world. This situation drives man to the quest for a new state of things, in which reconciliation and reunion conquer estrangement. This is the quest for the Christ.
Biology, Ethics and the Origins of Life
- F. J. Ayala
Cosmos as Creation: Theology and Science in Consonance
- P. Hefner
Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language
- S. McFague
The letter and the spirit: spirituality as an academic discipline
- McGinn
On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics
- N. C. Murphy
- G. F. Ellis
The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational
- R. Otto
Should I baptize my robot? What interviews with some prominent scientists reveal about the spiritual quest
- Palmer
Creation and the World of Science
- A. R. Peacocke
The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis
- W. M. Richardson
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
- R. R. Ruether
Science and Religion: A Critical Survey
- H. III Rolston
Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
- R. J. Russell
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology
- R. J. Russell
- K. Wegter-McNelly
The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology
- H. P. Santmire
God, Creation, and Contemporary Physics
- M. W. Worthing
- Polkinghorne
The importance of the natural sciences to Christian spirituality as an academic discipline B
- R J Russell
- Forthcoming
The study of Christian spirituality: contours and dynamics of a discipline
- Schneiders