God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology

ISBN-13: 9781138546066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 244 str.

Shaun C. Henson

Opis

This book brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. God as Unifier: Scientific Unification and its Theological Alliances  2. God as Pluralist: Philosophical Challenges to Scientific Unification  3. Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Creation  4. Material Limits  5. Methodological Limits  6. Conclusions

O autorze

Shaun C. Henson teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, UK