In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific WorldPhilip Clayton, Arthur Robert Peacocke Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004 - 322 páginas 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 |
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Panentheistic Interpretations of the GodWorld Relationship | 17 |
Three Varieties of Panentheism | 19 |
A Postmodern Revelation | 36 |
Complementary Approaches to the Debate on Panentheism | 48 |
A Panentheistic Metaphor | 62 |
Panentheism in Metaphysical and Scientific Perspective | 73 |
Scientific Perspectives on the GodWorld Relation | 93 |
Purpose through Emergent Complexity | 95 |
Panentheism in the Eastern Orthodox Perspective | 169 |
The Cosmic Vision of Saint Maximos the Confessor | 184 |
WESTERN CHRISTIAN | 197 |
A Relational and Evolving Universe Unfolding within the Dynamism of the Divine Communion | 199 |
A FieldOriented Approach | 211 |
God in Relation | 222 |
A Starting Point for a Sophianic Theology of Creation | 233 |
Afterword | 247 |
God in and beyond Space and Time | 109 |
Emergence of Humans and the Neurobiology of Consciousness | 121 |
On Panentheism and Epistemology | 131 |
Articulating Gods Presence in and to the World Unveiled by the Sciences | 137 |
Theological Perspectives on the GodWorld Relation | 155 |
The Divine Energies according to Saint Gregory Palamas | 157 |
A Constructive Systematic Evaluation | 249 |
Contributors | 265 |
Endnotes | 272 |
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