The Dialogue Between Religion and Science: Which God?
As exemplified by three cases, difficulties in the dialogue between religion and science not infrequently arise from differing views of God's omnipotence and omniscience. From the side of theology, reflections on the biblical and church-related sources of those views, on Auschwitz and theproble...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2000
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Year: 2000, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 99-113 |
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Theology
B Omniscience B divine causation B Omnipotence B linked time modes B Science B interpreting the Bible B dialogue between religion and science B God |
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| Summary: | As exemplified by three cases, difficulties in the dialogue between religion and science not infrequently arise from differing views of God's omnipotence and omniscience. From the side of theology, reflections on the biblical and church-related sources of those views, on Auschwitz and theproblem of theodicy, on God as Creator of the universe, and on how to read and interpret the Bible show that a view of a God who self-limits almightiness and all-knowing in order to grant freedom and functional integrity to a Creation about which God cares can be multiply justified. Such a view is not dissonant with regard to a self-organized, open universe, producing “unexpected” emergent features as seen by science |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00262 |