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 Publications ; Berkeley, Calif. : Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1997.

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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

Description

416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Series on "Scientific perspectives on divine action" 2nd v.

Alternative Title

• Scientific perspectives on divine action.
• Scientific perspectives on divine action

Subject

• Providence and government of God > Congresses
• Chaotic behavior in systems > Congresses
• Technological complexity > Congresses
• Religion and science > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers resulting from a conference at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 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, Robert S. Shaw -- Chaos: a mathematical introduction with philosophical reflections / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert John Russell -- Understanding complexity / Bernd-Olaf Kuppers -- 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 / Jurgen 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 Schrodinger's cat / Nancey Murphy -- Ordinary and extraordinary divine action: the nexus of interaction / George F.R. Ellis.

ISBN

0268008124 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002283235

OCLC

• 38214293
• SCSB-12187644

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library