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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
Develops a new theology of science on the basis of the insights of modern theologians such as von Balthasar
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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/Bibliography