Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Process

Furthering his contribution to the science and religion debate, David Ray Griffin draws upon the cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead and proposes a radical synthesis between two worldviews sometimes thought wholly incompatible. He argues that the traditions designated by the names "scientific naturalism" and "Christian faith" both embody a great truth--a truth of universal validity and importance--but that both of these truths have been distorted, fueling the conflict between the visions of the scientific and Christian communities. Griffin contends, however, that there is no inherent...

Current Biblical interpretation is in a muddle state. Can the historicity of Scripture be placed in question but its authority and significance still be upheld? Can we be truly Christian while calling the reliability of biblical revelation into doubt? Gerhard Maier provides a Christian understanding of the science of biblical hermeneutics: the inspiration and authority of Scripture, the role of the canon, the historical nature of Scripture, current discussion of revelation and criticism, etc.

Citing the importance of the subject Maier says, "Against long-standing and still virulent...

Process theology has been a major theological innovation of the last hundred years, and its influence on American theology has been pervasive. But process thought is far from being simply an American phenomenon. Throughout the last few decades, some of the most exciting work in process theology has been undertaken in Asia and Europe. Now that process theology is a truly international movement, all theologians need to reconsider this school of thought.

In this book, world-recognized expert in process thought Roland Faber presents a systematic exploration of process theology's roots...

You'll find it in the first verse essay of SOUNDINGS , beginning with a statement, followed by two questions:

God, who is Ultimate Reality and Truth,
would not bring into existence
anything less than real or true, it would seem.
With this in mind, could the newly created universe-
the early space-time continuum-
have been anything other than it was?
Could the primordial light and elements,
with their forces of electromagnetism and gravity,
...