Chaos & Complexity: Scientific Perspectives On Divine Action (Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, Vol 2)

✍ Scribed by Robert J. Russell, Nancey Murphy, Arthur R. Peacocke (ed.)

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 427
Series: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action Second Volume
Edition: Second Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection of fifteen research papers explores the implications of chaos and complexity in physical, chemical, and biological systems for philosophical and theological issues regarding God's action in the world. It resulted from the second of five international research conferences being co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome, and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The overarching goal is to contribute to constructive theology as it engages current research in the natural sciences and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing theoretical research in the natural sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
A Series on "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action"......Page 4
Titlepage
......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 7
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
I. SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND:CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY......Page 43
CHAOS......Page 45
CHAOS: A MATHEMATICAL INTRODUCTIONWITH PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS......Page 59
II. CHAOS, COMPLEXITY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE......Page 101
UNDERSTANDING COMPLEXITY......Page 103
CHAOS, PROBABILITY, AND THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF THE WORLD......Page 117
CHANCE AND LAW IN IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS, THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, AND THEOLOGY1......Page 133
III. CHAOS, COMPLEXITY, AND DIVINE ACTION......Page 155
THE METAPHYSICS OF DIVINE ACTION......Page 157
THE DISCOVERY OF CHAOS AND THE RETRIEVAL OF THE TRINITY......Page 167
DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND INSTRUMENTALITY: Metaphors for Time in Self-Organizing Systems and Divine Action......Page 187
REFLECTIONS ON CHAOS AND GOD'S INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD FROM A TRINITARIAN PERSPECTIVE......Page 215
THE GOD OF NATURE......Page 221
IV. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHESTO DIVINE ACTION......Page 231
GAPS FOR GOD?......Page 233
DESCRIBING GOD'S ACTION IN THE WORLD IN LIGHT OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY......Page 249
GOD'S INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD: The Implications of Deterministic "Chaos" and of Interconnected and Interdependent Complexity1......Page 273
PARTICULAR PROVIDENCE AND THE GOD OF THE GAPS......Page 299
DIVINE ACTION IN THE NATURAL ORDER: Buridan's Ass and Schrodinger's Cat......Page 335
ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY DIVINE ACTION: The Nexus of Interaction......Page 369
LIST OF CONTRIBUTING PARTICIPANTS......Page 407
INDEX......Page 409
Backcover
......Page 427

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