The order of things explorations in scientific theology /
Alister McGrath's scientific theology project is widely acknowledged to be one of the most exciting developments in modern theology. His groundbreaking three-volume work "A Scientific Theology" (2001-3) explored how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be us...
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Taking the Enlightenment seriously
- Renewing the quest for reliable knowledge
- On developing a scientific theology
- Introducing the essays
- Alister McGrath's scientific theology
- A review article by Dr. Benjamin Myers, University of Queensland
- Is a "scientific theology" intellectual nonsense? engaging with Richard Dawkins
- The universal scope of the natural sciences
- Darwinism and the impossibility of theology
- Faith and evidence in science and theology
- Theology as a virus of the mind?
- Does theology impoverish our view of the universe?
- A university sermon on natural theology
- Towards the restatement and renewal of a natural theology : a dialogue with the classic English tradition
- Natural theology : an autobiographical reflection
- Natural theology as discernment
- The golden age of English natural theology
- The Boyle lectures and the problem of heterodoxy
- William Paley and the divine watchmaker
- The challenge of Darwinism for natural theology
- Incarnation, Trinity, and natural theology
- Responding to Barth : natural theology as a specifically Christian undertaking
- Tradition, interpretation and the discovery of God : natural theology and Meno's paradox
- Cognitive and perceptual approaches to natural theology
- Stratification : levels of reality and the limits of reductionism
- Stratification in Nicolai Hartmann
- Stratification in Roy Bhaskar
- Stratification, emergence, and the failure of reductionism
- Mathesis universalis : Heinrich Scholz and the flawed quest for methodological uniformity
- The evolution of doctrine : a critical examination of the theological validity of biological models of doctrinal development
- Nature as a source of theological models
- The notion of doctrinal development
- "Universal Darwinism" and the development of culture
- Are human ideas and values outside the Darwinian paradigm?
- Darwinianism, Lamarckianism, or what? : the indeterminate mechanism of cultural evolution
- Cultural evolution : an historical case study
- Directing evolution : Antonio Gramsci and the manipulation of cultural development
- The memetic approach to intellectual evolution
- Doctrinal development : are there islands of theological stability?
- Contingency, history and adaptation in the evolutionary process
- Contingency, history and adaptation in the development of doctrine
- Chalcedon, metaphysics, and spandrels : evolutionary perspectives on the Chalcedonian definition of faith
- Assimilation in the development of doctrine : the theological significance of Jean Piaget
- Piaget on "reflective abstraction"
- Assimilation to Jewish religious norms : ebionitism
- Assimilation to Roman cultural norms : pelagianism
- Assimilation to Anglo-Saxon cultural norms : Christ as hero
- The achievement of equilibration : factors encouraging theological accommodation
- A working paper : the ordering of the world in a scientific theology
- A working paper : iterative procedures and closure in systematic theology
- The church as the starting point for a scientific dogmatics
- Starting from the visible reality of the church
- Can theology be empirical? : John Locke versus John Dewey
- The church as an empirical social reality
- Stanley Hauerwas on seeing the church
- Transignification and transvaluation : the church and new ways of seeing things.