The God of Chance and Purpose: Divine Involvement in a Secular Evolutionary World - Hardcover

McCall, Bradford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1725283840 ISBN 13: 9781725283848

Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This brief title will pursue a triangulation of chance, divine involvement, and theology through a fundamentally Peircean lens--at least epistemologically and semiotically. The argument proceeds over five distinct chapters, and a conclusion that constitutes a sixth chapter. In Part I, I discuss the Modern Synthetic theory in evolutionary biology. In particular, I refer to what I have labeled the secular evolutionary worldview (SEW). Also in Part I, I dismiss the French physicist Pierre-Simon de Laplace's claim that a sufficiently informed intelligence could forecast everything that is going to happen in the whole universe--and, working backwards, tell you everything that did happen, not by direct citation and rebuke, but rather by implicit argumentation and demonstration of the God of Chance. In Part II of this book, I explore the God of chance and purpose, with theological assists provided by Philip Clayton and Alister McGrath over two chapters. So then, we live in a world of both chance and purpose. One may even go so far as to state that this world is designed for both chance and purpose.

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Bradford McCall holds a PhD in comparative theology from Claremont School of Theology, four MAs in theology and philosophy, and a BSc in biology. He has authored or edited numerous books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1725283840
• ISBN 13: 9781725283848
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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