Larry S. Chapp

The God of Covenant and Creation (eBook, PDF)

Scientific Naturalism and its Challenge to the Christian Faith

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Produktbeschreibung

Larry Chapp develops a true "theology of nature" that begins and ends with strictly confessional Christian warrants. He begins by showing how modern naturalism arose out of a theological matrix and how it lost its way specifically as naturalism as soon as it rejected that theological matrix. Indeed, modern naturalism is not so much a-theological as it is a rival theology to that of the Church. All claims of ultimacy, including those of natural science, have inherently theological orientations embedded within them - however unconsciously. Therefore, what confronts us in the modern world is not so much a choice between a non-theological naturalism and a theological naturalism. Rather, what confronts us is a choice between two rival theologies - one agnostic and a-theistic in its implications while the other is revelocentric and Christian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567331823
• Artikelnr.: 38228794

Autorenporträt

Larry S. Chapp, Ph.D. An expert in the theology of the late Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. His most recent publication "Deus Caristas Est and the Retrieval of a Christian Cosmology," appeared in the Fall, 2006 issue of Communio: International Catholic Review. Currently, he is Professor of Theology at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: The Triumph of Mechanism
Prologue to Section I
Chapter One: The Classical and Medieval
Chapter Two: The Dissolution of the Medieval Synthesis
Chapter Three: The "Newtonian Settlement": The Divine Mechanic and the World of "Mere Matter"
Chapter Four: Darwin's Revolution: The End of Teleology
Section II: The God of Covenant And Creation
Chapter Five: The Question of God
Chapter Six: Creaturely Being in a Trinitarian Context
Chapter Seven: The Abolition of Man
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