Creation and the world of science : the re-shaping of belief / Arthur Peacocke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacocke, A. R. (Arthur Robert), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arthur Peacocke's 1978 Bampton Lectures were published as 'Creation and the World of Science', a key work in initiating the explosion of interest in the relation and theology to the sciences. This new reprinting makes it available again to a new generation of students and investigators.

Contents:

CONTENTS; I. THE TWO BOOKS; II. COSMOS, MAN, AND CREATION; III. CHANCE AND THE LIFE-GAME; IV. NATURE'S HIERARCHIES-'THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE'; V. THE 'SELFISH GENE' AND 'WHAT MEN LIVE BY'; VI. EVOLVED MAN AND GOD INCARNATE; VII. MAN IN CREATION; VIII. CREATION AND HOPE; APPENDICES; SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION; INDEX OF NAMES; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04153-9

1-280-75517-2

0-19-151512-4

1-4294-5578-0

OCLC:

437109169