| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" |
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Series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action."
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| Contents |
Chaos / James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, Robert S. Shaw -- Chaos: a mathematical introduction with philosophical reflections / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert John Russell -- Understanding complexity / Bernd-Olaf Kuppers -- Chaos, probability, and the comprehensibility of the world / Michael Heller -- Chance and law in irreversible thermodynamics, theoretical biology, and theology / Arthur R. Peacocke -- The metaphysics of divine action / John Polkinghorne -- The discovery of chaos and the retrieval of the trinity / Denis Edwards -- Divine providence and instrumentality: metaphors for time in self-organizing systems and divine action / Stephen Happel -- Reflections on chaos and God's interaction with the world from a Trinitarian perspective / Jurgen Moltmann -- The God of nature / Langdon Gilkey -- Gaps for God? / Willem B. Drees -- Describing God's action in the world in light of scientific knowledge of reality / William R. Stoeger -- God's interaction with the world: the implications of deterministic "chaos" and of interconnected and interdependent complexity / Arthur R. Peacocke -- Particular providence and the God of the gaps / Thomas F. Tracy -- Divine action in the natural |
| Note |
Papers resulting from a conference at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, Calif., August 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Chaotic behavior in systems -- Religious aspects.
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Technological complexity.
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Religion and science.
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| Added Author |
Russell, Robert J.
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Murphy, Nancey C.
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Peacocke, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
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Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
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| Added Title |
Scientific perspectives on divine action. |
| ISBN |
0268008124 |
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