Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action

By Book, By Author, By Topic

Introduction

Chaos and Complexity

• Crutchfield, James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, and Robert S. Shaw. “Chaos.”
• Drees, Willem B. “Gaps for God?”
• Edwards, Denis. “The Discovery of Chaos and the Retrieval of the Trinity.”
• Ellis, George F. R. “Ordinary and Extraordinary Divine Action: The Nexus of Interaction.”
• Gilkey, Langdon. “The God of Nature.”
• Happel, Stephen. “Divine Providence and Instrumentality: Metaphors of Time in Self-Organizing Systems and Divine Action.”
• Heller, Michael. “Chaos, Probability, and the Comprehensibility of the World.”
• Kuppers, Bernd-Olaf. “Understanding Complexity.”
• Moltmann, Jurgen. “Reflections on Chaos and God’s Interaction with the World from a Trinitarian Perspective.”
• Murphy, Nancey. “Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridan’s Ass and Schrödinger’s Cat.”
• Peacocke, Arthur. “Chance and Law in Irreversible Thermodynamics, Theoretical Biology, and Theology.”
• Peacocke, Arthur. “God’s Interaction with the World: The Implications of Deterministic “Chaos” and of Interconnected and Interdependent Complexity.”
• Polkinghorne, John. “The Metaphysics of Divine Action.”
• Stoeger, William R.. “Describing God’s Action in the World in Light of Scientific Knowledge of Reality.”
• Tracy, Thomas F. “Particular Providence and the God of the Gaps.”
• Wildman, Wesley J. and Robert John Russell. “Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction with Philosophical Reflections.”

Evolutionary and Molecular Biology

• Ayala, Francisco J. “The Evolution of Life: An Overview.”
• Ayala, Francisco J. “Darwin’s Devolution: Design Without Designer.”
• Barbour, Ian G. “Five Models of God and Evolution.”
• Birch, Charles. “Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization, and Divine Action in Evolution.”
• Cela-Conde, Camilo J. and Gisele Marty. “Beyond Biological Evolution: Mind, Morals, and Culture.”
• Cela-Conde, Camilo J. “The Hominid Evolutionary Journey: A Summary.”
• Chela-Flores, Julian. “The Phenomenon of the Eukaryotic Cell.”
• Clifford, Anne M. “Darwin’s Revolution in the Origin of Species: A Hermeneutical Study of the Movement form Natural Theology to Natural Selection."
• Coyne, George V., S.J. “Evolution and the Human Person: The Pope in Dialogue."
• Davies, Paul. “Teleology Without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity."
• Drees, Willem B. “Evolutionary Naturalism and Religion."
• Edwards, Denis. “Original Sin and Saving Grace in Evolutionary Context."
• Ellis, George F. R. “The Thinking Underlying the New ‘Scientific’ World-views."
• Haught, John F. “Darwin’s Gift to Theology."
• Hefner, Philip. “Biocultural Evolution: A Clue to the Meaning of Nature."
• Pope John Paul II. “Message to the Vatican Observatory Conference on Evolutionary and Molecular Biology."
• Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Nonreducibility of Ethics to Biology."
• Peacocke, Arthur. “Biological Evolution - A Positive Theological Appraisal."
• Peters, Ted. “Playing God with Our Evolutionary Future."
• Russell, Robert John. “Special Providence and Genetic Mutation: A New Defense of Theistic Evolution."
• Stoeger, Willam R., S.J. “The Immanent Directionality of the Evolutionary Process, and its Relationship to Teleology."
• Tracy, Thomas F. “Evolution, Divine Action, and the Problem of Evil."
• Wildman, Wesley J. “Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action."

Neuroscience and the Person

• Arbib, Michael A. “Towards a Neuroscience of the Person."
• Arbib, Michael A. “Crusoe’s Brain: Of Solitude and Society."
• Barbour, Ian. “Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Nature: Theological and Philosophical Reflections."
• Brothers, Leslie A. “A Neuroscientific Perspective on Human Sociality."
• Clayton, Philip, “Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account."
• Ellis, George F. R. “Intimations of Transcendence: Relations of the Mind to God."
• Green, Joel B. “Restoring the Human Person: New Testament Voices for a Wholistic and Social Anthropology."
• Hagoort, Peter “The Uniquely Human Capacity for Language Communication: From POPE to [po:p] in Half a Second."
• Happel, Stephen “The Soul and Neuroscience: Possibilities for Divine Action."
• Jeannerod, Marc. ”The Cognitive Way to Action."
• Jeannerod, Marc “Are There Limits to the Naturalization of Mental States?"
• Kerr, Fergus. “The Modern Philosophy of Self in Recent Theology."
• LeDoux, Joseph E. “Emotions: How I’ve Looked for Them in the Brain."
• LeDoux, Joseph E. “Emotions: A View through the Brain."
• Meyering, Theo C. “Mind Matters: Physicalism and the Autonomy of the Person."
• Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action."
• Peacocke, Arthur. “The Sound of Sheer Silence: How Does God Communicate with Humanity?"
• Peters, Ted. “Resurrection of the Very Embodied Soul?"
• Stoeger, William R., S.J. “The Mind-Brain Problem, the Laws of Nature, and Constitutive Relationships."
• Watts, Fraser. “Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Consciousness.”
• Wildman, Wesley J. and Leslie A. Brothers. “A Neuropsychological-Semiotic Model of Religious Experiences."

Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature

• Alston, W. “Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the Laws of Nature.”
• Davies, Paul C. W. “The Intelligibility of Nature."
• Drees, Willem B. “A Case Against Temporal Critical Realism? Consequences of Quantum Cosmology for Theology."
• Ellis, George F. R. and William R. Stoeger. “Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology."
• Ellis, George F. R. “The Theology of the Anthropic Principle."
• Grib, Andrej A. “Quantum Cosmology, the Role of the Observer, Quantum Logic."
• Happel, Stephen. “Metaphors and Time Asymmetry: Cosmologies in Physics and Christian Meanings."
• Heller, Michael. “On Theological Interpretations of Physical Creation Theories."
• Isham, C.J. and J.C. Polkinghorne. “The Debate over the Block Universe."
• Lucas, John R. “The Temporality of God."
• Murphy, Nancey. “Evidence of Design in the Fine-Tuning of the Universe."
• Peters, Ted. “The Trinity In and Beyond Time."
• Polkinghorne, John. “The Laws of Nature and the Laws of Physics."
• Russell, Robert John. “Finite Creation without a Beginning: The Doctrine of Creation in Relation to Big Bang and Quantum Cosmologies."
• Stoeger, William R. “Contemporary Physics and the Ontological Status of the Laws of Nature."
• Ward, Keith. “God as a Principle of Cosmological Explanation."

Quantum Mechanics

• Berry, Michael. “Chaos and the Semiclassical Limit of Quantum Mechanics (Is the Moon There When Somebody Looks?)"
• Butterfield, Jeremy. “Some Worlds of Quantum Theory."
• Chiao, Raymond Y. “Quantum Nonlocalities: Experimental Evidence."
• Clarke, Chris. “The Histories Interpretation of Quantum Theory and the Problem of Human/Divine Action."
• Clayton, Philip. “Tracing the Lines: Constraint and Freedom In the Movement from Quantum Physics to Theology."
• Cushing, James T. “Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics: A “Free” Choice."
• Ellis, George F.R. “Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic World."
• Heller, Michael. “Generalizations: From Quantum Mechanics to God."
• McMullin, Ernan. “Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy."
• Polkinghorne, John. “Physical Process, Quantum Events, and Divine Agency."
• Redhead, Michael. “The Tangled Story of Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics."
• Russell, Robert John. “Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics: A Fresh Assessment."
• Shimony, Abner. “The Reality of the Quantum World."
• Stoeger, William R. “Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising from Quantum Theory."
• Tracy, Thomas F. “Creation, Providence, and Quantum Chance."

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