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ASTROPHYSICS AND CREATION: PERCEIVING THE UNIVERSE THROUGH SCIENCE AND PARTICIPATION

Zygon, 2017
I explore how the notion of divine creation could be made understandable in a worldview dominated by empirical science. The crucial question concerns the empirical basis of belief in creation.
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COSMOLOGY FROM ALPHA TO OMEGA: RESPONSE TO REVIEWS

Zygon, 2010
I gratefully acknowledge and respond here to four reviews of my recent book, Cosmology from Alpha to Omega. Nancey Murphy stresses the importance of showing consistency between Christian theology and natural science through a detailed examination of my ...
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LOVE IN THE “UNIDIVERSE”: A SALESIAN PERSPECTIVE ON CHANCE

Zygon, 2009
The notion of the universe evolving through an interplay of law and chance raises numerous theological questions. In particular, scientific evidence of chance confronts images of God and divine action within this emerging worldview.
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Callimachus and Arcadian metamorphoses: Hy. 1, 29-32 and Hy. 1, 37-41

Aitia
One of the most relevant characteristics of Callimachus’ hymnic poetry is, among other aspects, its manifest heterogeneity of forms and themes in each of the six poems that compose the collection.
Sandra M.ª Plaza Salguero
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Divine Action in the World of Physics: Response to Nicholas Saunders

Zygon, 2000
Nicholas Saunders claims that, in my view, divine action requires and is confined to indeterminacies at the quantum level. I try to make clear that, in speaking of “gaps” in physical causality, I mean that the existence of intentions entails that ...
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Considering the Place of Apophaticism within Science-Engaged Theology

Zygon
Despite its firm embeddedness in the Christian tradition, apophatic theology has been strangely absent in the science-and-religion dialogue. Given that the apophatic theologian eschews the idea that we can fully comprehend God, or positively articulate ...
Mikael Leidenhag
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A HEURISTIC SCIENCE‐BASED NATURALISM AS A PARTNER FOR THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURAL WORLD

Zygon, 2015
After a few general observations on scientific activity, the author briefly comments on different versions of naturalism. Subsequently, he suggests that the birth of evolutionary biology and its successive developments may show how the natural world ...
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ISLAM AND SCIENCE: THE NEXT PHASE OF DEBATES

Zygon, 2015
This article reviews the new developments that have occurred in the past ten to fifteen years in the field of Islam and science: (1) the emergence of a “new generation” of thinkers, Muslim scientists who accept modern science's fundamental methodology ...
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THE DIVINE SPIRIT AS CAUSAL AND PERSONAL

Zygon, 2013
Theists in general and Christians in particular have good grounds for affirming divine action in relation to twenty‐first‐century science. Although humans cannot perceive with their five senses the causation—both divine and creaturely—at work in our ...
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SCIENCE AND SERIOUS THEOLOGY: TWO PATHS FOR SCIENCE AND RELIGION'S FUTURE?

Zygon, 2010
Although they take different approaches, both Taede A. Smedes and Kevin Sharpe have challenged the theology‐and‐science enterprise and raised important questions about theological and scientific assumptions behind this work.
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