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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450911003321

Autore

Peacocke A. R (Arthur Robert)

Titolo

Creation and the world of science [[electronic resource] ] : the re-shaping of belief / / Arthur Peacocke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-75517-2

0-19-151512-4

1-4294-5578-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Disciplina

261.55

Soggetti

Creation

Religion and science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; I. THE TWO BOOKS; II. COSMOS, MAN, AND CREATION; III. CHANCE AND THE LIFE-GAME; IV. NATURE'S HIERARCHIES-'THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE'; V. THE 'SELFISH GENE' AND 'WHAT MEN LIVE BY'; VI. EVOLVED MAN AND GOD INCARNATE; VII. MAN IN CREATION; VIII. CREATION AND HOPE; APPENDICES; SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION; INDEX OF NAMES; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Arthur Peacocke's 1978 Bampton Lectures were published as Creation and the World of Science, a key work in initiating the explosion of interest in the relation of religion and theology to the sciences. This new reprinting, with a special supplement bringing up to date the references and the exposition of the author's current views, makes it available again both to a new generation of students and investigators and to the wider public, as an eminently readable and. accessible account of contemporary issues in the relation of science and religion. - ;A. R. Peacocke's Creation and the World of Sc