| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Religion ; 36 |
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Routledge studies in religion ; 36.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 God as Unifier: Scientific Unification and Its Theological Alliances; 2 God as Pluralist: Philosophical Challenges to Scientific Unification; 3 Wolfhart Pannenberg's Trinitarian Creation; 4 Material Limits; 5 Methodological Limits; 6 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory. Drawing on the wor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2019) |
| Subject |
Religion and science.
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RELIGION -- General.
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Religion and science
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317915010 |
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1315851210 |
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9781315851211 |
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1317915011 |
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