Philosophy, Science and Divine Action

F. LeRon Shults, Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Institute of Religion, Philosophy and History, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.Nancey Murphy, Ph.D. (1980) in Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley; Th.D. (1987) Graduate Theological Union, is Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA. She has published on Anglo-American postmodern philosophy; theology and science; and neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and Christian anthropology.Robert John Russell, Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science in Residence, Graduate Theological Union, and Founder and Director, The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, USA.

• A Philosophical Introduction to “Divine Action”, F. LeRon Shults ... 1Chapter One Five Models of God and Evolution, Ian G. Barbour ... 17Chapter Two The Sound of Sheer Silence: How does God Communicate with Humanity?, Arthur Peacocke ... 53Chapter Three The Metaphysics of Divine Action, John Polkinghorne ... 97Chapter Four Describing God’s Action in the World in Light of Scientific Knowledge of Reality, William R. Stoeger ... 111Chapter Five Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action, Wesley J. Wildman ... 141Chapter Six Constraint and Freedom in the Movement from Quantum Physics to Theology, Philip Clayton ... 191Chapter Seven Creation, Providence and Quantum Chance, Thomas F. Tracy ... 227Chapter Eight Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridan’s Ass and Schrödinger’s Cat, Nancey Murphy ... 263Chapter Nine Ordinary and Extraordinary Divine Action: The Nexus of Interaction, George F.R. Ellis ... 305Chapter Ten Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics: A Fresh Assessment, Robert John Russell ... 351Appendix: Overview of the CTNS/VO Series ... 405About the Authors ... 427Index ... 429