Divine action and modern science / / Nicholas Saunders [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Saunders Nicholas <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 231.7
• Soggetto topico: Religion and science
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Motivations; CHAPTER TWO Theological approaches to divine action; CHAPTER THREE The laws of nature and miracles; CHAPTER FOUR Determinism and SDA; CHAPTER FIVE Divine action and quantum theory; CHAPTER SIX Does God cheat at dice?; CHAPTER SEVEN Chaos Theory and divine action; CHAPTER EIGHT Whole-part models of SDA; CHAPTER NINE Is SDA really tenable?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the world. Nicholas Saunders examines the Biblical motivations for asserting a continuing notion of divine action and identifies several different theological approaches to the problem. He considers their theoretical relationships with the laws of nature, indeterminism, and probabilistic causation. His book then embarks on a radical critique of current attempts to reconcile special divine action with quantum theory, chaos theory and quantum chaos. As well as considering the implications of these problems for common interpretations of divine action, Saunders also surveys and codifies the many different theological, philosophical and scientific responses to divine action. The conclusion reached is that we are still far from a satisfactory account of how God might act in a manner that is consonant with modern science despite the copious recent scholarship in this area.
• Altri titoli varianti: Divine Action & Modern Science
• Titolo autorizzato: Divine action and modern science
• ISBN: 1-107-13039-5; 1-280-43041-9; 1-139-14704-8; 0-511-18048-9; 0-511-06335-0; 0-511-05702-4; 0-511-33099-5; 0-511-61003-3; 0-511-07181-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450513903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II