Arthur Robert Peacocke

Being and Becoming - Natural, Divine and Human

Theology for a Scientific Age

"Enlarged edition."Originally published: Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : B. Blackwell, 1990, in series: Signposts in theology. Includes bibliographical references (p. [350]-432) and index. Contents: The theological and scientific enterprises -- 'Science and religion' -- Attitudes to science and theology -- Science and theology today: a critical-realist perspective -- The relation between science and theology -- pt. I. Natural being and becoming -- What's there? -- What's going on? -- Who's there? -- What does it all mean? -- pt. II. Divine being and becoming -- Asking 'why?' : the search for intelligibility and meaning -- 'God' as response to the search for intelligibility and meaning -- The concept of God : implications of scientific perspective -- God's interaction with the world -- pt. III. Human being and becoming -- God's communication with humanity -- Natural human being : the perspectives of the sciences and their implications for theology -- The long search and Jesus of Nazareth -- Divine being becoming human -- Divine meaning and human becoming -- L'Envoi : the divine means for and the end of human becoming.

Being and Becoming--natural, Divine, and Human

Philip Clayton

Foreword by Mary Ann Meyers Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the doctrine of panentheism -- the belief that the world is contained within the Divine, although God is also more than the world. Here for the first time leading scientists and theologians meet to debate the merits of this compelling new understanding of the God-world relation. Atheist and theist, Eastern and Western, conservative and liberal, modern and postmodern, physicist and biologist, Orthodox and Protestant -- the authors explore the tensions between traditional views of God and contemporary science and ask whether panentheism provides a more credible account of divine action for our age. Their responses, which vary from deeply appreciative to sharply critical, are preceded by an overview of the history and key tenets of panentheism and followed by a concluding evaluation and synthesis. Contributors: Joseph A. Bracken Michael W. Brierley Philip Clayton Paul Davies Celia E. Deane-Drummond Denis Edwards Niels Henrik Gregersen David Ray Griffin Robert L. Herrmann Christopher C. Knight Andrew Louth Harold J. Morowitz Alexei V. Nesteruk Ruth Page Arthur Peacocke Russell Stannard Keith Ward Kallistos Ware

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