God of Covenant and Creation

Scientific Naturalism and its Challenge to the Christian Faith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Av Larry S. Chapp, Dr Larry S. Chapp, Larry Chapp

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-05-19
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567033000

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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.

‘According to Larry Chapp, theology is left with two dire options in the aftermath of naturalism's apparent cultural triumph. "Provide modernity with an intellectually cogent theological vision or perish, along with that same culture, in the wasteland of our nihilism." Chapp's important book is grounds for hope that theology may live to see another day and that the pervasive nihilism may not have the last word. He correctly diagnoses the intellectual and cultural dangers posed by so-called scientific naturalism, lifting the lid on its alleged metaphysical neutrality and exposing this naturalism for what it fundamentally is: a bad theology which doesn't know itself. And more importantly still, he restores theology to its proper cosmological scope. Not only does ‘creation' become intellectually compelling in Chapp's deft hands, it elicits wonder and praise for its Creator and restores what is human in us. This is a hopeful development indeed and a sign of an indispensible book.' - Michael Hanby, John Paul II Institute, Washington D.C., USA