Systems theory and theology
Subtitle: the living interplay between science and religion
By: edited by Markus Ekkehard Locker
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781606087398
Subjects: Religion and science; System theory
Description: The contributions to the collection explore the interplay between systems theory, religion and theology, and the symbolic expressions and philosophical foundations of these academic disciplines. This endeavor is rooted in the oeuvre of the late Austrian physicist Alfred Locker (1922-2005), who firmly believed that systems theory would finally emerged, some sixty years after Bertalanffy's seminal work on General System Theory, as a bridge-building metatheory between the sciences and religion. The studies contained in this collection enter into a critical evaluation and reassessment of the dominant postulates of scientific and theological systems and their interaction, including treatments of paradoxes (A. Locker), the inner sciences (Zwick), systems of meaning (Krieger), philosophy (Murphy), theology (Sedmak), isomorphies of religious symbols (Zwick), and the bridging of science and religion (A. Locker).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224).
Table of contents: title: A concise introduction to general and trans-classical systems theory / Alfred Locker; title: Systems theory and the axis of faith : creation and evolution, resurrection and life everlasting / Alfred Locker; title: Edenology : a science of Paradise? / Otto Rössler; title: Personal knowledge and the inner sciences / Martin Zwick; title: Symbolic structures as symbols : on the near isomorphism of two symbolic structures / Martin Zwick; title: Boundary discourse religious communication / David Krieger; title: Disruptions : systems and investigations / Clemens Sedmak; title: Portal, system, and sacred order : America / Peter Murphy; title: Perceiving freedom and meaning in nature : operationalizing trans-classical systems theory for converging scientific and religious knowing / Alfred Locker; title: Scripture and trans-science : parables as "systems of the Kingdom / Alfred Locker.