The God of Chance and Purpose : Divine Involvement in a Secular Evolutionary World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCall, Bradford.

Contributor:

Haught, John F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Natural theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wipf and Stock [Imprint] Feb. 2022 Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publishers

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

This brief title will pursue a triangulation of chance, divine involvement, and theology through a fundamentally Peircean lens--at least epistemologically and semiotically. The argument proceeds over five distinct chapters, and a conclusion that constitutes a sixth chapter. In Part I, I discuss the Modern Synthetic theory in evolutionary biology. In particular, I refer to what I have labeled the secular evolutionary worldview (SEW). Also in Part I, I dismiss the French physicist Pierre-Simon de Laplace's claim that a sufficiently informed intelligence could forecast everything that is going to happen in the whole universe--and, working backwards, tell you everything that did happen, not by direct citation and rebuke, but rather by implicit argumentation and demonstration of the God of Chance. In Part II of this book, I explore the God of chance and purpose, with theological assists provided by Philip Clayton and Alister McGrath over two chapters. So then, we live in a world of both chance and purpose. One may even go so far as to state that this world is designed for both chance and purpose.

Contents:

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Tripartite Contemporary Relation of Science & Theology

Chapter 2: The Secular Evolutionary Worldview (SEW) Defined & Explicated

Chapter 3: The God of Chance

Chapter 4: The God of Contemporary Science

Chapter 5: A (Renewed) Natural Theology

Chapter 6: Conclusion

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ISBN:

9781725283855

1725283859

OCLC:

1298513993