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020 _a9780192139535192139533
041 _aeng
050 _aBL240.2
_b.P34 1971
100 _aPeacocke, A. R.
245 0 _aScience and the Christian experiment,
_b/
_cA. R. Peacocke
260 _aLondon, New York:
_bOxford University Press,
_c1971
300 _axiii, 214 p
_b;
_c23 cm.
505 _aIntroduction -- Chapter I. The scientific and theological enterprises -- 1. Attitudes and presuppositions -- 2. The vision of unity -- 3. The scientific and theological enterprises compared -- a. Abstraction and personal involvement -- b. The new and the traditional -- c. The dynamic and the static -- d. Authority and intellectual integrity -- Part I. The Scientific perspective -- Chapter 2. From matter to man -- 1. The inorganic worl and its development -- 2. The living matter and its origin -- 3. From living matter to man -- Chapter 3. Distinctive features of the processes of inorganic and biological evolution -- 1. 'Evolution -- the cosmic process' -- 2. Continuity -- 3. By Natural law -- 4. Emergence and creativity -- 5. Mechanism and vitalism -- 6. Directions in evolution -- 7. The Significance of the presence of man in the universe -- 8. Conclusion -- Part II. The Theological Enterprise in the perspective of science -- Chapter 4. Introduction to part II. The Christian Experiment -- Chapter 5. God and the cosmos -- 1. Creation -- 2. God as immanent and as 'Holy Spirit' -- 3. Continuity, regularity, and vitalism -- 4. Order and mind -- and a cosmic disclosure -- 5. Creation a costly process: structural relations and pain -- Chapter 6. Man, evolution, and Christ -- 1. Man in the context of evolution -- a. Man as a person, and psychosomatic unity -- b. Man evolving: an unfulfilled paradox -- 2. The Christian view of man and his fulfillment in Christ, as God incarnate -- a. Man, his sin and 'Fall' -- b. The impact of Jesus Christ: on the understanding of nature, God and man -- c. Jesus the Christ: on the understanding of nature, God and man -- c. Jesus the Christ as 'One person in two natures' -- 3. Christ and evolution -- a. Evolution to man: in the light of Jesus Christ -- b. Man, Christ and God: in the light of evolution -- c. Christian humanism d. God as triune -- Chapter 7. Matter in the theological and scientific perspectives -- 1. The existence of Christian view of matter -- 2. What is the role of the matter in sacrament, in general in the Eucharist in particular? -- 3. How does the scientific perspective affect our understanding of matter? -- 4. A sacramental view of the cosmos -- Postscript -- Chapter 8. Man in a Scientific World -- 1. Man in control -- 2. Man's work -- 3. Man's hope.
650 _aReligion and science.Science.Christianity.
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