Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion: Moving Forward from Natural Theology

ISBN-13: 9780367373191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 233 str.

Rodney Holder

Opis

This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible.

Spis treści

1 Theology as a Scientific Discipline: The Place of Natural Theology and Ramified Natural Theology; 2 Reason and Religion: The Rôle of Natural Theology; 3 Natural Theology and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological and Design Arguments; 4 Moving on from Natural Theology: Why We Need Ramified Natural Theology; 5 Pascal’s Pensées and Butler’s Analogy: Foreshadowing Ramified Natural Theology; 6 The Rationality of Belief in Miracles; 7 Ramified Natural Theology and Evidence for Christian Claims about Christ: Jesus’ Miracles; 8 Jesus and Prophecy; 9 Ramified Natural Theology in Action: Outline of the Argument for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; 10 On the Third Day he Rose Again: Bayesian Methodologies Applied to the Resurrection of Jesus; 11 Towards a Fuller Picture: The Fruits of Ramified Natural Theology; Bibliography

O autorze

Rodney Holder was Course Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, UK, before retiring in 2013, and is a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He has published widely in the fields of science and religion and natural theology including the book Big Bang, Big God: A Universe Designed for Life? (2013) and articles in peer reviewed journals such as The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Theology and Science, and Philosophia Christi.