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

• Autore: Peacocke A. R (Arthur Robert)
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.55
• Soggetto topico: Creation; Religion and science
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Creation and the world of science
• ISBN: 1-383-04153-9; 1-280-75517-2; 0-19-151512-4; 1-4294-5578-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777034103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II