Title: The transformation of the scientific world view.
Authors: Heim, Karl, 1874-1958.
Publisher: SCM Press
Year: 1953
Subjects: Religion and science
Contents: The starting-point for the analysis of faith and natural science -- The subject-matter of the analysis -- The absolute object -- Materialism as a religious faith -- The reduction of matter into energy and light -- From light to complementarity -- From physics to philosophy -- Faith in absolute time and absolute space and its disruption by the theory of relativity -- Calculations in terms of a fixed world-centre as a religious faith -- The disruption of this faith in a fixed world center -- The special relativity theory: a fruit of the disruption of faith in a fixed world-centre -- The general relativity theory: a final consequence -- Practical conclusion -- Absolute determinism in natural events and the a-casual concept used in modern physics -- The concept of causal necessity -- The debate about causality within modern physics -- The necessity of natural laws as explained by the theory of probability -- The dispute concerning ultimate consequences for our world-view -- Consequences for the belief in God -- The problem of miracles in the light of modern natural science -- The Thomist conception of miracles -- The voluntary character of miraculous experience -- The significance of God's self-revelation for miraculous experiences -- The riddle of life -- The non-objective background of the objective world -- The problem of a mechanistic or a vitalistic interpretation of the process of life -- The experimental solution of the problem of life -- The problem of transplantation in the growing organism -- Mechanism or wholeness-tendency? -- The non-objective point of reference of the life-process.