Research Catalog

Title

Chaos and complexity : scientific perspectives on divine action / Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Arthur R. Peacocke, editors.

Publication

Vatican City State : Vatican Observatory ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences ; Notre Dame, Ind. : Distributed (except in Italy and Vatican City State) by University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Russell, Robert J.
• Murphy, Nancey C.
• Peacocke, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
• Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

Description

416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This collection of fifteen research papers explores the implications of chaos and complexity in physical, chemical, and biological systems for philosophical and theological issues regarding God's action in the world. It resulted from the second of five international research conferences being co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome, and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The overarching goal is to contribute to constructive theology as it engages current research in the natural sciences and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing theoretical research in the natural sciences."--Jacket.

Series Statement

A series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" ; 2nd v.

Uniform Title

A series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" ; 2nd v..

Alternative Title

Scientific perspectives on divine action

Subject

• God > providence
• Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems
• Providence and government of God > Congresses
• Chaotic behavior in systems > Congresses
• Technological complexity > Congresses
• Religion and science > Congresses
• Providence and government of God > Christianity > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers resulting from a conference at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, Calif., August 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chaos / James P. Crutchfield, J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, and Robert S. Shaw -- Chaos : a mathematical introduction with philosophical reflections / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert John Russell -- Understanding complexity / Bernd-Olaf Küppers -- Chaos, probability, and the comprehensibility of the world / Michael Heller -- Chance and law in irreversible thermodynamics, theoretical biology, and theology / Arthur R. Peacocke -- The metaphysics of divine action / John Polkinghorne -- The discovery of chaos and the retrieval of the Trinity / Denis Edwards -- Divine providence and instrumentality : metaphors for time in self-organizing systems and divine action / Stephen Happel -- Reflections on chaos and God's interaction with the world from a trinitarian perspective / Jürgen Moltmann -- The God of nature / Langdon Gilkey -- Gaps for God? / Willem B. Drees -- Describing God's action in the world in light of scientific knowledge of reality / William R. Stoeger -- God's interaction with the world : the implications of deterministic "chaos" and of interconnected and interdependent complexity / Arthur R. Peacocke -- Particular providence and the God of the gaps / Thomas F. Tracy -- Divine action in the natural order : Buridan's ass and Schrödinger's cat / Nancey Murphy -- Ordinary and extraordinary divine action : the nexus of interaction / George F.R. Ellis.

ISBN

0268008124

OCLC

• 34303797
• SCSB-12286536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library