The Doctrine of Creation and Modern Science

Abstract. In contrast to Christian theology that has ignored science, this essay suggests that a credible doctrine of God as creator must take into account scientific understandings of the world. The introduction of the principle of inertia into seventeenth-century science and philosophy helped chan...

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1. VerfasserIn: Pannenberg, Wolfhart 1928-2014 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 1988
In: Zygon
Jahr: 1988, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 3-21
weitere Schlagwörter:B theory field
B emergent evolution
B Creation
B spirit of God
B God
B Contingency
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. In contrast to Christian theology that has ignored science, this essay suggests that a credible doctrine of God as creator must take into account scientific understandings of the world. The introduction of the principle of inertia into seventeenth-century science and philosophy helped change the traditional idea of God as creator (which included divine conservation and governance) into a deist concept of God. To recapture the idea that God continually creates, it is important to affirm the contingency of the world as a whole and of all events in the world. Reflecting on the interrelationship of contingency and natural law provides a framework for relating scientific theories of a universal field, the concept of emergent evolution, and the theological concept of eternal divine spirit active in all creation.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00615.x