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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787013903321

Autore

Lakkis Stephen

Titolo

A new hope : Wolfhart Pannenberg and the natural sciences on time / / by Stephen Lakkis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6902-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

230.44092

Soggetti

Future life - History of doctrines - 20th century

Pantheism

Theological anthropology - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; Bibliography; In dex of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Theology and historiography often see the future as a realm open to new experiences and unexpected events. Yet for classical physics, the future was the result of the universe's predictable development. Given enough information about current states, we could use the laws of nature to uncover the universe's future. Modern space-time theory, with its picture of an invariant four-dimensional universe, only makes this problem more acute. Room for radically novel events, for miracles and new hope ...