No God, No Science [electronic resource] : Theology, Cosmology, Biology

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanby, Michael, 1966-

Series:

Illuminations--theory and religion.

Illuminations: Theory & Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creationism.

Evolution (Biology).

Philosophical theology.

Philosophy.

Religion and science.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2013.

Summary:

No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology presents a work of philosophical theology that retrieves the Christian doctrine of creation from the distortions imposed upon it by positivist science and the Darwinian tradition of evolutionary biology. Argues that the doctrine of creation is integral to the intelligibility of the worldBrings the metaphysics of the Christian doctrine of creation to bear on the nature of scienceOffers a provocative analysis of the theoretical and historical relationship between theology, metaphysics, and sciencePresents an original critique and interpretation o

Contents:

No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Primary Sources and Translations; Introduction; Part I In the Beginning; 1 Discourse on Method; A Most Basic Distinction; The Impossible Necessity of Metaphysics; Theology and Science Within and Without Limits; Notes; References; Further Reading; 2 A Brief History of the Cosmos; Cosmos, Mythos, Logos: Plato and the Challenge of Cosmology; Aristotle and the Actual World; The Generosity of Plotinus; Christology, Creation, and Cosmology; Notes; References; Further Reading

Part II The Eclipse of the Universe3 The Scientific and Theological Revolution; The Seeds of Revolution; Nature Imitates Art: The Ontological Foundations of Modern Science; Revolutionary Theology; Contemplating Action and Ontological Sophistry; Notes; References; Further Reading; 4 Unnatural "Theology"; Why Natural Theology Is Not Natural; Why Natural Theology Is Not Theology; Notes; References; Further Reading; 5 Darwin the Theologian; Paley's Long Shadow: The Providence of the Tangled Bank; Summing Up So Many Contrivances: A Critique of Darwinian Naturalism; The Incredible Darwin; Notes

ReferencesFurther Reading; 6 The Mystery of the Missing Organism; How the Gene Killed the Organism; Inheritance and the Form of History; Genesis and Epigenesis: The Rise of a New Developmentalism; On Practicing Metaphysics Without a License; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part III Creation Without Creationism; 7 Deus Creator Omnium; De Genesi ad Litteram: Creation as a Consequence of Christology; Trinity and Transcendence; What Creation Is Not; Notes; References; 8 What the World Is; Ever Ancient, Ever New: Creation and Causality; The Phenomenology of Creation: The Inside View

The Metaphysics of Creation: The Outside ViewNotes; References; Further Reading; 9 Saving the Appearances; Seeing Creation; The World and Science in Action; The Structure of Theological Revolutions: The Rational Superiority of Creation; Notes; References; Epilogue: Evolution of the Last Men; Notes; References; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-118-32321-1