By Ian G. Barbour
ISBN-10: 0060603836
ISBN-13: 9780060603830
A accomplished exam of the foremost concerns among technological know-how and faith in brand new international.
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Boundary Questions 2. Methodological Parallels IV. INTEGRATION 1. Natural Theology 2. Theology of Nature 3. Systematic Synthesis 2 MODELS AND PARADIGMS I. THE STRUCTURES OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION 1. Theory and Data in Science 2. Belief and Experience in Religion 3. Story and Ritual in Christianity II. THE ROLE OF MODELS 1. Models in Science 2. Models in Religion 3. Personal and Impersonal Models 4. Christian Models III. THE ROLE OF PARADIGMS 1. Paradigms in Science 2. Paradigms in Religion 3. Paradigms in Christianity IV.
This is a nonrealist position. It does not assume a universal truth or an underlying universal experience; it sees each cultural system as self-contained. By minimizing the role of beliefs and truth claims, the linguistic view avoids conflicts between science and theology that can occur in the propositional view, yet it escapes the individualism and subjectivity of the expressive view. The three movements we have been considering—neo-orthodoxy, existentialism, and linguistic analysis—all understand religion and science to be independent and autonomous forms of life and thought.
The Role of God 2. God’s Action in the World 3. Christian Process Theology 4. The Problem of Evil and Suffering 9 GOD AND NATURE I. CLASSICAL THEISM 1. The Monarchical Model 2. Primary and Secondary Causes II. SOME ALTERNATIVES 1. God’s Self-Limitation 2. Existentialism 3. God as Agent 4. The World as God’s Body III. PROCESS THEISM 1. God as Creative Participant 2. Problems in Process Theology IV. CONCLUSIONS Notes Index of Names Copyright About the Publisher Acknowledgments I am grateful to Lord Gifford who established in his will of 1885 the lectureship that bears his name.
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