Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr
Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr

Author: Christopher B. Kaiser

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9004474110

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This volume documents the role of creational theology in discussions of natural philosophy, medicine and technology from the Hellenistic period to the early twentieth century. Four principal themes are the comprehensibility of the world, the unity of heaven and earth, the relative autonomy of nature, and the ministry of healing. Successive chapters focus on Greco-Roman science, medieval Aristotelianism, early modern science, the heritage of Isaac Newton, and post-Newtonian mechanics. The volume will interest historians of science and historians of the idea of creation. It simultaneously details the persistence of tradition and the emergence of modernity and provides the historical background for later discussions of creation and evolution.

Theologies of Creation
Theologies of Creation

Author: Thomas Jay Oord

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1134659490

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Humans have long wondered about the origin of the universe. And such questions are especially alive today as physicists offer metaphysical theories to account for the emergence of creation. Theists have attributed the universe’s origin to divine activity, and many have said God created something from absolute nothingness. The venerable doctrine of creatio ex nihilo especially emphasizes God’s initial creating activity. Some contributors to this book explore new reasons creatio ex nihilo should continue to be embraced today. But other contributors question the viability of creation from nothing and offer alternative initial creation options in its place. These new alternatives explore a variety of options in light of recent scientific work, new biblical scholarship, and both new and old theological traditions.

Creation and Chaos Talk
Creation and Chaos Talk

Author: Eric M. Vail

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 160899791X

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Talk about chaos is pervasive. Biblical scholars, theologians, and scientists have been using the word chaos for some time, occasionally mingling ideas across disciplines around the shared word. Quite often, discussions of chaos center on the issues of creation's origin and nature, as well as on God's creative methods and relationship to creation. Eric M. Vail investigates the current uses of the word chaos in those areas. A new way of articulating creation out of nothing is offered as both helpful and appropriate in our current milieu. He suggests where we ought to focus our use of the word chaos in Christian discourse and argues that chaos is more fitting for naming where creation has gone awry rather than for naming that state out of which creation comes to be.

Illumination in Basil of Caesarea's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Illumination in Basil of Caesarea's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

Author: Timothy P. McConnell

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1451482779

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If Basil of Caesarea receives mention in a standard course of lectures on Christian theology or history it is as the first person to write a dedicated discourse on the Holy Spirit. The author argues that Basil did regard the Holy Spirit as fully divine and an equal Person of the Holy Trinity.

Problem and Promise in Colin E. Gunton's Doctrine of Creation
Problem and Promise in Colin E. Gunton's Doctrine of Creation

Author: William B. Whitney

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9004254625

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While much dialogue has focused on aspects of Colin Gunton’s Trinitarian theology, there has been a need for a full-scale study of Gunton's doctrine of creation that locates the significance of his understanding of creation within the wider spectrum of his theology. Problem and Promise demonstrates how Gunton's doctrine of creation cannot be read in abstraction from his Trinitarian theology and argues that creation remains a central feature in Gunton’s writing that holds lasting importance for understanding ethical and moral aspects of Gunton’s theology. William B. Whitney establishes how this Trinitarian account of creation goes beyond offering a theological description of the created realm and also provides the basis for understanding human involvement in creation through the enterprises of culture.

A Theology for the Church
A Theology for the Church

Author: Daniel L. Akin

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13: 080542640X

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Leading Baptist and evangelical thinkers examine eight key Christian doctrines, shaping a church theology that is both biblically sound and relevant today.

Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour
Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour

Author: Professor Christopher B Kaiser

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1409477665

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Foundations of science are specific conditions of the cosmos, of human intelligence, of cultural beliefs, and of technological structures that make the pursuit of modern science possible. Each of the four foundations of scientific endeavour can be studied as a topic on its own. The concurrent study of all four together reveals several tensions and interconnections among them that point the way to a greater unification of faith and science. This book explores four foundations of scientific endeavour and investigates some of the paradoxes each of them raises. Kaiser shows that the resolution of these paradoxes inevitably leads us into theological discourse and raises new challenges for theological endeavour. In order to address these challenges, Kaiser draws on the wider resources of the Judeo-Christian tradition and argues for a refocusing of contemporary theology from the perspective of natural science.

Echoes of Coinherence
Echoes of Coinherence

Author: W. Ross Hastings

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1532616848

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This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion. It modestly proposes that Trinitarian theology, and especially the coinherent natures of the Son in the incarnation, provides the metaphysic or “theory of everything” that manifests itself in the subject matter of science. The presence of the image of the triune God in humanity and of traces of this God in the non-human creation are discussed, highlighting ontological resonances between God and creation (resonances between the being of God and his creation), such as goodness, immensity-yet-particularity, intelligibility, agency, relationality, and beauty. This Trinitarian reality suggests there should be a similarity also with respect to how we know in theology and science (critical realism), something reflected in the history of ideas in each. These resonances lead to the conclusion that the disciplines of theology and science are, in fact, coinherent, not conflicted. This involves recognition of both the mutuality of these vocations and also, importantly, their particularity. Science, its own distinct guild, yet finds its place ensconced within an encyclopedic theology, and subject to first-order, credal theology.

Drama of the Divine Economy
Drama of the Divine Economy

Author: Paul M. Blowers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0191635936

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The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theological construction and religious devotion in the early church. While revisiting the polemical dimension of Christian responses to Greco-Roman philosophical cosmology and heterodox Gnostic and Marcionite traditions on the origin, constitution, and destiny of the cosmos, Blowers focuses more substantially on the positive role of patristic theological interpretation of Genesis and other biblical creation texts in eliciting Christian perspectives on the multifaceted relation between Creator and creation. Greek, Syriac, and Latin patristic commentators, Blowers argues, were ultimately motivated less by purely cosmological concerns than by the urge to depict creation as the enduring creative and redemptive strategy of the Trinity. The 'drama of the divine economy', which Blowers discerns in patristic theology and piety, unfolded how the Creator invested the 'end' of the world already in its beginning, and thereupon worked through the concrete actions of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit to realize a new creation.