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AN AUGUSTINIAN PHILOSOPHER BETWEEN DUALISM AND MATERIALISM: ERNAN MCMULLIN ON HUMAN EMERGENCE

open access: yesZygon, 2013
In claiming the independence of theology from science, Ernan McMullin nevertheless saw the danger of separating these disciplines on questions of mutual significance, as his accompanying article “Biology and the Theology of the Human” in this edition of
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Panentheisms, Creation and Evil

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2019
Can panentheism cope with the problem of evil? This problem is often understood as one for classical theists, who maintain that the cosmos, together with its evils, was created by an all-powerful and benevolent God.
Attfield Robin
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DOES SCIENCE CLARIFY GOD'S RELATION TO THE WORLD?

open access: yesZygon, 1991
. Central to the work of Arthur Peacocke on science and religion is the intention to develop a reasonable faith within an intelligible framework of meaning. Showing the inadequacy of reductionism is necessary for this purpose.
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ERNAN MCMULLIN ON CONTINGENCY, COSMIC PURPOSE, AND THE ATEMPORALITY OF THE CREATOR

open access: yesZygon, 2013
This article reviews, and offers supportive reflections on, the main points of Ernan McMullin's provocative 1998 article, “Cosmic Purpose and the Contingency of Human Evolution,’’ reprinted in this issue of Zygon.
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BIOLOGY AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE HUMAN

open access: yesZygon, 2013
We will consider two Christian responses to the enormous advances in recent years in the connected sciences of genetics, evolutionary biology, and biochemistry, a dualist one by Pope John Paul II and an “emergentist” one by Arthur Peacocke.
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FROM DNA TO DEAN

open access: yesZygon, 1991
. In this broadly intellectual autobiographical essay, Arthur Peacocke describes how his educational background at Oxford led him eventually to physicochemical studies on DNA and other biological macromolecules and how biological complexity and the ...
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Los desafíos de la ciencia: quehacer nuevo de la teología

open access: yesCuestiones Teológicas, 2020
Los avances en el conocimiento científico del cosmos y de toda la realidad natural, desde Darwin y llegando a Einstein, Hubble y Hawking le están planteando interrogantes al pensamiento teológico cristiano.
Adolfo Galeano A. OFM
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Toward a New Understanding of Nature, Reality, and the Sacred: A Syllabus

open access: yesZygon, 1998
Adjustments in the understanding of the relation of religion and science since the Enlightenment require new considerations in epistemology and metaphysics. Constructionist theories of knowledge and process theories of metaphysics better provide the new
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THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL NORMS IN HUMAN SYSTEMS

open access: yesZygon, 2009
Terrence Deacon has described three orders of emergence; Arthur Peacocke and others have suggested four levels of human systems and sciences; and Philip Clayton has postulated an additional, transcendent, level.
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DIVINE AGENCY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

open access: yesZygon, 2009
Many contemporary thinkers seeking to integrate theistic belief and scientific thought reject what they regard as two extremes. They disavow deism in which God is understood simply to uphold the existence of the physical universe, and they exclude any ...
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