Strict Naturalism and Christianity: Attempt at Drafting an Updated Theology of Nature

Abstract. In the first part of this essay I sketch a view on cosmogenesis from the perspective of modern science, emphasizing, first, that the laws of nature are outcomes of the history of nature, not imposed on nature from outside of nature; and, second, that the universe, including human beings, i...

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Main Author: Brun, Rudolf B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2007
In: Zygon
Year: 2007, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 701-714
Further subjects:B Creation
B cosmogenesis
B Word of God
B theology of nature
B Evolution
B Naturalism
B Christianity
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