The God of covenant and creation : scientific naturalism and its challenge to the Christian faith
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The God of covenant and creation : scientific naturalism and its challenge to the Christian faith
T & T Clark, 2011
- : hbk
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This is a new exciting attempt to reconcile theology and science in a contemporary 'theology of nature'. Larry Chapp develops a true 'theology of nature' that begins and ends with strictly confessional Christian warrants. He begins by showing how modern naturalism arose out of a theological matrix and how it lost its way specifically as naturalism as soon as it rejected that theological matrix. Indeed, modern naturalism is not so much a-theological as it is a rival theology to that of the Church. All claims of ultimacy, including those of natural science, have inherently theological orientations embedded within them - however unconsciously. Therefore, what confronts us in the modern world is not so much a choice between a non-theological naturalism and a theological naturalism. Rather, what confronts us is a choice between two rival theologies - one agnostic and a-theistic in its implications while the other is revelocentric and Christian.
Table of Contents
- Section I: The Triumph of Mechanism
- Chapter One: The Classical and Medieval Worldview: The Theophanic Cosmos
- Chapter Two: The Dissolution of the Medieval Synthesis: The Seeds of Mechanism
- Chapter Three: The Divine Mechanic and the World of "Mere Matter"
- Section II: The Retrieval of a Christian Cosmology
- Chapter Four: The Recovery of a Christian Concept of "Form": Balthasar's Trilogy and the Development of a Trinitarian Ontology of Love as the Foundation for "Truth".
- Chapter Five: Nature without Naturalism and Creation without Creationism: The Christian Theological Paradox.
- Chapter Six: A Specifically "Christian" Cosmology? Why Science is a Latently Theological Enterprise
- Chapter Seven: Capitalism, Liberalism, and Science: Why Modern Science Does Not Play Well with Others.
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