The order of things
Subtitle: explorations in scientific theology
By: Alister E. McGrath.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781405125567; 9781405125550
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal; Natural theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taking the Enlightenment seriously; title: Renewing the quest for reliable knowledge; title: On developing a scientific theology; title: Introducing the essays; title: Alister McGrath's scientific theology; title: A review article by Dr. Benjamin Myers, University of Queensland; title: Is a scientific theology intellectual nonsense? : engaging Richard Dawkins; title: The universal scope of the natural sciences; title: Darwinism and the impossibility of theology; title: Faith and evidence in science and theology; title: Theology as a virus of the mind?; title: Does theology impoverish our view of the universe?; title: A university sermon on natural theology; title: Towards the restatement and renewal of a natural theology : a dialogue with the classic English tradition; title: Natural theology : an autobiographical reflection; title: Natural theology as discernment; title: The golden age of English natural theology; title: The Boyle lectures and the problem of heterodoxy; title: William Paley and the divine watchmaker; title: The challenge of Darwinism for natural theology; title: Incarnation, Trinity, and natural theology; title: Responding to Karl Barth : natural theology as a specifically Christian undertaking; title: Tradition, interpretation and the discovery of God : natural theology and menos paradox; title: Cognitive and perceptual approaches to natural theology; title: Stratification : levels of reality and the limits of reductionism; title: Stratification in Nicolai Hartmann; title: Stratification in Roy Haskar; title: Stratification, emergence, and the failure of reductionism; title: Mathesis universalis : Heinrich Scholz and the flawed quest for methodological uniformity; title: The evolution of doctrine : a critical examination of the theological validity of biological models of doctrinal development; title: Nature as a source of theological models; title: The notion of doctrinal development; title: Universal darwinism and the development of culture; title: Are human ideas and values outside the Darwinian paradigm?; title: Darwinianism, Lamarckianism, or what? : the indeterminate mechanism of cultural evolution; title: Cultural evolution : an historical case study; title: Directing evolution : Antonio Gramsci and the manipulation of cultural development; title: The memetic approach to intellectual evolution; title: Doctrinal development : are there islands of theological stability?; title: Contingency, history and adaptation in the evolutionary process; title: Contingency, history and adaptation in the development of doctrine; title: Chalcedon, metaphysics, and spandrels : evolutionary perspectives on the chalcedonian definition of faith; title: Assimilation in the development of doctrine : the theological significance of Jean Piaget; title: Piaget on reflective abstraction; title: Assimilation to Jewish religious norms : ebionitism; title: Assimilation to Roman cultural norms : pelagianism; title: Assimilation to Anglo-Saxon cultural norms : Christ as hero; title: The achievement of equilibration : factors encouraging theological accommodation; title: A working paper : the ordering of the world in a scientific theology; title: A working paper : iterative procedures and closure in systematic theology; title: The church as the starting point for a scientific dogmatics; title: Starting from the visible reality of the church; title: Can theology be empirical? : John Locke versus John Dewey; title: The church as an empirical social reality; title: Stanley Hauerwas on seeing the church; title: Transignification and transvaluation : the church and new ways of seeing things.