Sir John's Vision

What Do We Know? What Is There to Learn?
Herausgeber: Davies, Paul; Ward, Keith; Ellis, George R

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Produktbeschreibung

In 2017, the year marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Templeton, a group of scientists, scholars, and advisors who knew him personally gathered in Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. Their purpose: to discuss how the Foundation that bears his name could best extend his philanthropic vision into the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Templeton Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781599475554
• ISBN-10: 1599475553
• Artikelnr.: 52906019

Autorenporträt

Davies

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / vii
Introduction / xiii
section one
1. Extending Sir John’s Vision into the Twenty-First Century / 3
Paul C. W. Davies
2. From Cosmology to Life and Ethics / 11
George F. R. Ellis
3. Future Research in a Diversity of Domains in Science, Theology and
Spirituality / 27
Robert John Russell
4. John Marks Templeton: The Man Who Said No / 51
Owen Gingerich
Section Two
5. Psychological Science and Christian Faith: Insights and Enrichments from
Sustained Dialogue / 61
Malcolm Jeeves
6. Frontiers in Psychological Science / 83
David G. Myers
7. Religion, Spirituality and Health: What We Know, What We Need to Know 97
Harold G. Koenig
8. The Search for God in the Human Mind 111
Russell Stannard
9. The Evolving Process of Man’s Consciousness from a Scientific and
Spiritual Perspective / 122
Rebekah A. Dunlap
10. Can We Investigate Sir John’s Core Metaphysical Idea? An Infinite Mind
of Creative Love Manifest in the Ordered Universe and as a Source of Our
Nonmaterial Souls / 129
Stephen G. Post
Section Three
11. Has There Been Progress in Theological Understanding in the Modern
World? / 153
Keith Ward
12. From Spiritual Information to Communication and Transformation / 164
Niels Henrik Gregersen
13. The Philanthropic Vision of a Contrarian / 174
Philip Clayton
About the Contributors / 186