God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History - Softcover

Poe, Harry Lee; Davis, Jimmy H.

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ISBN 10: 0830839542 ISBN 13: 9780830839544

Verlag: IVP Academic, 2012

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Book by Poe Harry Lee Davis Jimmy H

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"In this broad-ranging discussion of how nature works, Poe and Davis explore the mystery of divine action in a nonmechanistic world, using easy-to-understand language to explain fundamental scientific concepts."--Randy Isaac, executive director, American Scientific Affiliation

"Poe and Davis masterfully explain the necessity of God for a cohesive understanding of religion, science and history. They demonstrate persuasively that we do not live in a pointless universe without beginning or end. Rather, we see a growing richness and complexity that is consonant with God's progressive revelation through the Bible. God and the Cosmos presents this argument in a diverse panorama that includes Eastern religions, the Protestant Reformation and the latest discoveries of modern physics."--Robert Kaita, physicist, Princeton University

"This book will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered how the Christian God, a nonphysical being, can interact with the physical universe of matter and energy. In a wide-ranging, engaging and insightful study, Harry L. Poe and Jimmy H. Davis investigate what kind of a God and what kind of a world would allow, even encourage, such interaction without violation of the laws of nature. "The authors trace the development of complexity in the universe from the big bang to the emergence of self-conscious beings. They argue that fine-tuning in cosmology, quantum phenomena and chaotic systems in physics, epigenetics in biology, and the imaginative capabilities of the human person point to an open universe that invites interaction with cognitive agents, including God. Their valuable study is rooted in a healthy respect for mainstream science and a solid knowledge of the biblical text."--Robert C. Fay, professor emeritus, Cornell University

." . . the cumulative result of God and the Cosmos is refreshing in revealing an embrace of and engagement with mainstream science that is nevertheless uncompromising with regard to evangelical commitments and biblical fidelity. Poe and Davis are charting important pathways for the evangelical mind in the twenty-first century."--Amos Yong, Religious Studies Review, Volume 39, Number 2, June 2013

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Theologian Harry Lee Poe and chemist Jimmy H. Davis argue that God?s interaction with our world is a possibility affirmed equally by the Bible and the contemporary scientific record. In Part One, the authors conduct a comparative study of the Christian model with other religious and philosophical depictions to show that the biblical God interacts with the physical universe in a truly novel way.Part Two turns to scientific research to identify many ways that the universe, including human history itself, is constituted to allow for divine interaction with it. Rather than confirming that the cosmos is closed to the actions of the divine, advancing scientific knowledge seems to indicate that the nature of the universe is actually open to the unique type of divine activity portrayed in the Bible.

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• Verlag: IVP Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0830839542
• ISBN 13: 9780830839544
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 303