11. Ecology Topic: H. Paul Santmire's The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecolo...
a being separate from -
or transcendent to - the world, who chooses to intervene in its affairs at
will. Furthermore, this motif expresses a fundamental theological bias towards
only those beings considered rational, spiritual, or moral. This
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12. General Term: Post-secular Thought
of God or the notion of the transcendent is a hallmark
of modern philosophy. Philosophical discussions of theology were determined by
secular assumptions, which resulted in the rejection of God. However, the legacy
of this project is now
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13. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: A Classification of Theories of Divine A...
at which God - as a transcendent , immaterial world cause -
interacts particularly with causative factors in the material world?
i) sceptical naturalism - Willem B
Drees has surveyed the field with characteristic insight, but is
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14. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Body-of-God Theories of Divine Action
at
which God - as a transcendent , immaterial world cause - interacts particularly
with causative factors in the material world?
The use of the image of the
world-as-the-body-of-God is the one which makes strongest use of the analogy of
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15. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Polkinghornes View of Divine Action
at
which God - as a transcendent , immaterial world cause - interacts particularly
with causative factors in the material world?
John Polkinghorne is the
scientist-theologian who has made the boldest attempt to characterise
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16. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Quantum-Based Proposals on Divine Action
at
which God - as a transcendent , immaterial world cause - interacts particularly
with causative factors in the material world?
One important approach to asserting
particular providence through gaps in the causal order is to follow
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17. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Does God Collapse the Wave Function?
we could postulate a transcendent world observer - a divine
mind whose observations collapse the wave functions on our behalf. In effect
this would be the quantum-mechanical version of Bishop Berkeleys idealism .
This is memorably
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18. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Many-Worlds Interpretation
to the notion of a
transcendent world observer. But one wonders which option requires the larger
act of faith!
Topic Index
More:
The Rediscovery of the Observer
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19. Intelligent Design Topic: Getting Acquainted With the ID Vocabulary
or
atheism (there is no transcendent God as
envisioned by any of the theistic religions).
I use the term minimal
naturalism (it could also be called metaphysical
naturalism, but that name has additional connotations) to
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20. Intelligent Design Topic: Must All the Design in the Natural World Be Front-...
type of designer (mundane or transcendent ) produced the information in question, but how far that information can be traced back. With the Cambrian explosion the information trail goes dead in the Cambrian. So too with the book of Hebrews it goes
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