No God, no science? : theology, cosmology, biology /
No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology. This book argues that the doctrine of creation...
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Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication,
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Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Illuminations: theory and religion
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Summary: |
No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology. This book argues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the world; brings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to bear on the nature of science; offers a provocative analysis of the theoretical and historical relationship between theology, metaphysics, and science; and, presents an original critiqu |
Carrier Form: | xviii, 435 pages ; 26 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781405158015 (hardback) : 1405158018 (cloth) |
Index Number: | BT40 |
CLC: |
Q11 B913 |
Call Number: | B913/H233 |
Contents: | Discourse on method -- A brief history of the cosmos -- The scientific and theological revolution -- Unnatural "theology" -- Darwin the theologian -- The mystery of the missing organism -- Deus creator omnium -- What the world is -- Saving the appearances. |