The Tao of Physics

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John Polkinghorne

"In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientists-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university and discusses the role of revelation in religion.". "The author examines two related concepts in depth. The first is the divine self-limitation involved in creation that leads to an important reappraisal of the traditional claim that God does not act as a cause among causes. The other is the nature of time and God's involvement with it, an issue that Polkinghorne shows can link metascience and theological understandings. In the final section of the book, the author reviews three centuries of the science and theology debate and assesses the work of major contemporary contributors to the discussion: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Torrance, and Paul Davies. He also considers why the science-theology discussion has for several centuries been a particular preoccupation of the English."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mary Midgley

This work exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.

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Suke Wolton

Just how critical is contemporary social theory? These essays challenge the claims of the main currents of social and cultural studies: identity theory, feminism, social construction, gay studies, criminology and comparative religion. With contributions from G. A. Cohen, Internet innovator Keith Teare and a new generation of Marxists, this collection puts the theory of alienation back into critical thinking. Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory argues that without understanding the way that alienated social relations are necessarily mystified, social theory cannot penetrate beneath immediate appearances.

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Herman Dooyeweerd

Dooyeweerd would be the first to disclaim originality, or that his is a final system, but rather declares that his is a development of Christian philosophy on the biblical foundations of John Calvin and Abraham Kuyper. As such, his philosophy is of major importance and of far-reaching implications. Dooyeweerd discusses in this work the pretended autonomy of theoretical thought ; the sense of history and the historicistic world- and life-view ; the relationship between philosophy and theology and concludes it with a chapter on the question: What is a human person?