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Does religious belief impact philosophical analysis? [PDF]

, 2016
One popular conception of natural theology holds that certain purely rational arguments are insulated from empirical inquiry and independently establish conclusions that provide evidence, justification, or proof of God’s existence.
Tobia, Kevin P.
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Moderating Natural Theology: A Heuristic Interrogative Approach

Religions
This article proposes an underappreciated value for traditional natural theology and its familiar arguments for the existence of God, without endorsing the soundness or the rational cogency of these arguments.
Paul K. Moser
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Panentheistic Elements in Wolfhart Pannenberg's Notion of God [PDF]

, 2017
In his exposition, Pannenberg dialectically explores the possibility of a redefinition of the notion of God and rejects the anthropomorphic analogies and the Greek understanding of God as nous in order to emphasize the idea of God as Spirit and thus ...
Isaias, D'Oleo Ochoa
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution and Natural Theology

Religions, 2020
Alfred Russel Wallace’s conception of evolution and its relation to natural theology is examined. That conception is described as intelligent evolution—directed, detectably designed, and purposeful common descent.
Michael A. Flannery
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Hesitations About Special Divine Action: Reflections on Some Scientific, Cultural and Theological Concerns [PDF]

, 2015
The new interest in special divine action has led to a close reading of the great debates and discussions of the early modern period in an attempt to understand contemporary resistance to the notion of divine action, and to develop strategies for ...
McGrath, Alister E.
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Is there Verification in Theology?

Open Theology, 2017
Critical realism (CR) has served as a benchmark in science-theology dialogue as a way of determining similar rational structures in these disciplines.
Allen Paul L.
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Balancing the transcendence and immanence of God in Nürnberger’s theology

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
Klaus Nürnberger has provided an invaluable contribution to theology over the course of his career, and he continues to do so. His recent writings focus on a model of theology that takes seriously the truth claims made by the natural sciences.
Wessel Bentley
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Patterns of Speciation and Extinction and the Divine Valuing of Creation [PDF]

, 2012
The near-universal concern over the current rate of species extinction must be contextualized, given the occurrence ofprevious mass extinctions during the course of Earth\'s natural history.
Bouma, Rolf
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Prigogine and Pannenberg: Theological and Scientific Perspectives on Contingency and Irreversibility [PDF]

, 2002
The author demonstrates how Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine\'s pioneering work on dissipative structures and non-equilibrium thermodynamics might be used to answer theological questions about contingency and irreversibility that theologian Wolfhart ...
Henry, Stephen G.
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Science and Theology: A Working Synthesis [PDF]

, 2008
Theologians and scientists, working independently, have provided worldviews that lead to questions about the meaning of existence and human life. When these disciplines interact, opportunity exists for more profound insight.
Frank, Marie-Thérèse, Jardin, Pascal, Stern, Marie   +2 more
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