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Physics, philosophy, and theology : a common quest for understanding / edited by Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger, and George V. Coyne.

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Physics, philosophy, and theology : a common quest for understanding / edited by Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger, and George V. Coyne.
Publication
Vatican City : Vatican Observatory, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Russell, Robert J.
  • Stoeger, William R.
  • Coyne, George V., 1933-2020
  • Specola vaticana
Description
419 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
It89- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject
  • Russell, Robert J
  • Stoeger, William R
  • Coyne, G. V
  • Specola vaticana
  • Religion and science > 1946- > Congresses
  • Religion and science
  • Cosmology
  • Quantum theory
  • Religion and Science
  • Quantum Theory
Note
  • Primarily the result of a study week held at the Papal Summer Residence at Castel Gondolfo from 21 to 26 September 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Ways of relating science and theology / I.G. Barbour -- Natural science and belief in a creator: historical notes / E. McMullin -- The Newtonian settlement and the origins of atheism / M.J. Buckley -- Is a natural theology still possible today? / W.N. Clarke -- Christian belief and the fascination of science / O. Pedersen -- Scientific rationality and Christian logos / M. Heller -- Creation in the Hebrew Bible / R.J. Clifford -- Knowledge and experience in science and religion: can we be realists? / J. Soskice -- Physics, philosophy, and myth / M.B. Hesse -- Observation, revelation, and the posterity of Noah / N. Lash.
  • Contemporary cosmology and its implications for the science-religion dialogue / W.R. Stoeger -- Models of God for an ecological, evolutionary era: God as mother of the universe / S. McFague -- On creating the cosmos / T. Peters -- How to draw conclusions from a fine-tuned universe / J. Leslie -- The Omega Point Theory: a model of an evolving God / F.J. Tipler -- The quantum world / J. Polkinghorne -- Quantum physics in philosophical and theological perspective / R.J. Russell -- Creation of the universe as a quantum process / C.J. Isham.
ISBN
  • 0268015767
  • 0268015775 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 21372876
  • SCSB-10461929
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library