Toward a Theology of Nature: Essays on Science and Faith - Softcover

Pannenberg, Wolfhart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664253849 ISBN 13: 9780664253844

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993

Synopsis

Toward a Theology of Nature Pannenberg poses theological questions to natural scientists that illuminate his personal position on issues dealing with theology and the natural sciences, especially physics, reviewing the relationship between natural law and contingency, the importance of the spirit in the phenomenon of life, field theory, language, and the theological account for the nature of God and God's creative activity. Full description

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From the Back Cover:

Systematic theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg, basing his discussion on more than three decades of dialogue between theologians and scientists, here poses theological questions to natural scientists that illuminate his personal position on issues dealing with theology and the natural sciences, especially physics.

Pannenberg says the scientific view of nature is incomplete and challenges scientists to incorporate the idea of God into their picture of nature. First he provides a commentary and critique of groundbreaking insights of post-World War II philosophers of science and offers insight on the sociology of knowledge, which open conversation between theologians and scientists. Then he presents theology as the "science of God," showing that the world we live in is "a creature of a creating God."

About the Author:

Wolfhart Pannenberg was a scholar whose work focused on religion and science. He has been called one of Germany's most important theologians of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0664253849
• ISBN 13: 9780664253844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180