The world in the Trinity
Subtitle: open-ended systems in science and religion
By: Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781451482058; 9781451487558
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Religion and science; Religion and Science
Description: "Utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and rationally plausible to a contemporary, scientifically influenced society. This account opens new possibilities for rethinking the God-world relationship, the Trinity, incarnation, creation, and eschatology within the context of a broader ecological and cosmological system. In re-describing these articles constitutive of Christian belief, the author is conscious of the vital importance of retaining the inherent power and meaning of these concepts"--Provided by publishers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language and reality; title: The "inside" and the "outside" of everything; title: Panentheism: hierarchically ordered systems of existence and activity; title: Other approaches to panentheism in the current religion-and-science debate; title: "Incarnation" as key to the argument for panentheism; title: A systems-oriented approach to the Trinity; title: Tradition and traditioning: church as both system and institutional entity?; title: Miracles and the problem of evil; title: Resurrection and eternal life.