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Scientific Theology: Nature

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Continuum International Publishing Group, Jan 23, 2007 - Religion - 352 pages
New in paperback of the first volume of McGrath's groundbreaking three volume work of Systematic Theology, "A Scientific Theology". Written by one of world's best-known theologians, these volumes together represent the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation beween Christian theology and the natural sciences yet produced. Thoroughly ecumenical, this will be a significant work for Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and evangelical readers. The work is marked throughout by a sustained and critical engagment with the history and philosophy of the natural sciences, and a passionate commitment to the legitimacy of theology as an academic discipline.

"Nature" sets out a vision for a "scientific theology", in which the working assumptions of the natural sciences are critically appropriated as a theological resource. It then moves on to deal at considerable length with the crucially important question of the status of nature, which ahs rearely been given the serious considertion that it deserves. Responding sympathetically to the growing consensus that "nature" is a socially mediated concept, McGrath sets out an approach to nature that establishes it as a theologically legitamate notion, and explores its positive and constructive role within a scientific theology.
  

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For quite some time I was a huge fan of Alister McGrath. His background in the sciences, his definitive work on Luther (_Luther's Theology of the Cross_) his historical work on Justification ...

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Contents

THE LEGITIMACY OF A SCIENTIFIC THEOLOGY
3
The ontological imperative for theological dialogue with
20
THE APPROACH TO BE ADOPTED
35
THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATURE
81
Images of nature
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THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION
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IMPLICATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF CREATION
193
of mathematics
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The ordering of creation
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THE PURPOSE AND PLACE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY
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Nature and natural theology
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Theodore Beza
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The place of natural theology within a scientific
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ANTICIPATING AN ENGAGEMENT WITH
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Index
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About the author (2007)

Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, UK, and the first Director of the newly-established Oxford Centre for Evangelism and Apologetics. He holds the Oxford degrees of Doctor of Divinity for his work on historical and systematic theology, and Doctor of Philosophy for his work on molecular biophysics.

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TitleScientific Theology: Nature
Volume 1 of A Scientific Theology, Alister E. McGrath
Volume 1 of A Scientific Theology: Nature, Alister E. McGrath
T & T Clark theology
AuthorAlister E. McGrath
Editionreprint
PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group, 2007
ISBN0567031225, 9780567031228
Length352 pages
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