Albert the Great 13
anthropic principle 70–2
Aristotle 13
Atkins, Peter 6
Barbour, Ian: Issues in Science and Religion xiv
Bible 120
Acts 182
as historical narrative 35, 182
New Testament 13, 35, 158–9, 164
Old Testament 35
Proverbs 155
Revelation 47
Romans 118–19
worldview of 9
Boethius 44
Bricmont, Jean: Intellectual Impostures 23
Buddha 9
Burhoe, Ralph xiv Butler, Joseph 21
Carter, Brandon 70
Chalmers, Thomas 173
chaos theory 5, 58–9, 99–104, 110, 114
Christianity xiii, xv–xvi, 86–7, 88, 132–4, 142–3, 147–8, 148–53, 158–60, 163–70, 175–6
and agnostics 19
beliefs xvi, 12–13, 19, 35, 120, 147, 148
creeds 164
Eucharist xvii, 62, 149–52, 158, 176
and miracles 94–5
and philosophical systems 13, 21, 130, 154
and scientific discoveries 8, 11–12, 14, 66, 132–3
the Trinity 164, 165, 167–8, 183
Western 133–4, 135–6, 139–40, 141–3, 161
see also Jesus, revelation, theology
Confucius 9
Conway Morris, Simon: Crucible of Creation 82
Darwin, Charles 14, 66, 73, 74, 83, 85, 135
see also evolution
Dawkins, Richard 6, 66, 70, 73
Deane-Drummond, Celia 157
de Duve, C. 70
dissipative systems, and structures 52, 100, 102–4, 110, 185
Dobzhansky, Theodor 67
Donne, John: Anatomie of the World 95
Drees, Willem 34
Drummond, Henry 136
Dunn, J.G.: Christology in the Making 157–8
eschatology 48
evolution xvi, 14, 15–16, 24–6, 47, 49, 53, 59, 65–90, 135–6, 146–8, 167, 170, 172–3, 175
anthropic principle 70–2
chance and necessity 75–8, 81, 85
convergence 82
epic of evolution xvii, 15, 65–7, 83, 92, 132, 148, 152, 170
evolutionary epistemology 25
natural selection 14, 25, 66, 73–5, 76, 83, 85
propensities 81–2
existence of the world 11, 14, 15, 24, 39–43, 130–1
Farrer, Austin 111
Ferrar, Nicholas xvii
Frayn, Michael: Copenhagen 5
behaviour genetics 79–80
DNA xiii, xiv, 53, 54, 66–7, 73, 76, 105
God xv, xvi, xvii–xviii, 39–48, 56–9, 69–70, 71–3, 74–5, 84–153, 154, 163–8, 173–4, 180–1
as absent 14
as continuously creating 44, 46, 47, 55, 67, 80, 82–3, 86, 92, 105–6, 118, 129, 136–7, 146, 186
as Creator xv, 11, 43, 47, 55, 57, 67, 70, 71–3, 74–5, 77–8, 85–6, 88–9, 92, 103, 122, 135–8, 139, 146, 149, 154, 167
as eternal 43, 44, 45, 46, 129
existence of, proofs for 33, 71
as external to nature 135, 139, 142
and free will 44, 45, 59, 86, 87–9
as Ground of Being 39, 43, 129
as immanent xvii, 14, 58, 109, 129, 131, 132, 135–8, 143, 146, 163, 165, 166–7, 178, 185, 186
as ineffable 165
as influencing events 56–9, 75, 91, 92, 93–4, 102, 103–8, 110–11, 114, 119–20, 123–4, 130, 148, 180–1
interaction with humanity 46, 54, 61–2, 86, 87, 88, 115, 116–25, 130, 134, 164–7
and omnipotence 41, 43, 59, 86, 87, 89, 107–8, 122, 129, 141–2
and omniscience 41, 43, 45, 55, 58–9, 102–3, 104, 106, 109–10, 129, 141
and pain and suffering 83, 85–8, 89–90, 142
personal experience of 114–15, 116–25, 130
personal nature of 42–3, 45, 85, 114–15, 130, 140, 141
purposes of 81, 82–3, 88–90, 93, 109, 110, 114, 133, 141, 144–5, 146–8, 149, 152, 175–6
relation with the world xvii, 15, 28, 51–3, 55–8, 61, 72–3, 84–8, 91–115, 118, 119–21, 131, 134, 138–48, 154, 156–7, 159, 160–2, 163–5, 168–9, 170, 172
as suffering 86–7, 130, 142, 149
as transcendent 14, 56, 80–1, 131, 132, 135, 141, 143, 165, 167, 185, 187
as Ultimate Reality 12, 14, 39–40, 41, 42–3, 81, 86, 129, 130, 131, 132, 139, 170–1
uncreated energies of xvii, 160–2, 163, 164, 183
unity of 129, 167 see also miracles, panentheism, revelation
Gould, Stephen 6: Wonderful Life 81–2
Greenfield, Susan 6
Gregersen, N.H. 28–9
Habgood, John: Soundings xiv
Hawking, Stephen 34
Heisenberg uncertainty principle 5, 104–8
Heraclitus 96 Hildegard of Bingen: The Book of Divine Works 143
human beings 50–1, 59–64, 78–81, 83–4, 86, 87, 88–9, 117, 140–1, 146–7, 172–3, 175–6
brain 60, 62–3, 118, 120, 123–4, 173
communication between 62–4, 115, 118, 122–5, 147
and consciousness 83, 88, 118, 123, 147
and evolution 67, 70–1, 78, 146–7
human behaviour 79–81
as physical entities 50, 68, 117, 140
and rationality 166
relationship with God 51, 114–15, 116–25, 130
religious impulse 80
self-consciousness 50, 59, 83, 88–9, 147
soul 51
spiritual capacities of 50–1, 117, 122, 172
and the world 144–6, 172–3, 186
humanism 175
Hume, David 56
Illingworth, J.R. 147
immanence see God
inference to the best explanation (IBE) 26–30, 32, 37, 40, 66
Jacob, François 81
Jesus xvi, 12, 35, 134, 147, 148–53, 164–9, 176, 184 ‘the Christ’ 166, 184
as culmination of divine creative process 147–8, 168
as God incarnate 148–9, 150, 151, 157–8, 164, 165, 166, 167, 170, 176
historical 35, 152, 164, 166, 167
life, death and resurrection of 79, 164, 165, 166
as Messiah 13
and redemption through suffering 88, 142
relationship to God 48, 90, 147, 148–9, 166, 167
as the ‘Son of God’ 165, 166, 183
Kallistos, Bishop of Diokleia 143
Kepler, Johannes 11
Kingsley, Charles 7
The Water Babies 136
Livingstone, Sir Richard 10
Locke, John 20
Lorenz, Edward: ‘butterfly effect’ 100, 101
Lossky, Vladimir: The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church 160–2
Mascall, E. xiv
Maximus the Confessor 143
Meynell, Alice 169
Milton, John 44
as breaking laws of nature 56, 93
monism 49–50, 60, 62, 68, 93, 111, 117
Moore, Aubrey 136
theistic xvii, 51, 135–8, 159, 161, 163, 165, 186
Newton, Isaac 66
Newtonian systems 97, 98–9, 101–2
ontology 44, 55, 57, 101, 105, 106, 110, 111, 114, 117, 138, 168, 186
ontological gap 57, 58, 110, 115
Palamas, Gregory 143
panentheism xvii, 57–8, 87, 109, 110–14, 129, 138–43, 146, 157, 159, 160, 161, 163, 165, 187
Philo of Alexandria 159
Aristotelian 164
biblical 9
Chinese 9
pre-Socratic 9
Stoic 159
see also theology
physico-chemical systems xiii, 52, 68
Pinker, Steven 6
Poincaré, Henri 98
postmodernism xvi, 8, 11, 21–4, 27
and science 22–4
and theology 21
Prigogine, Ilya 68
quantum theory 26, 96–9, 104–8, 180–1, 187
Quick, Oliver 145
realism 22–3
scientific 22–3
religion xv, 7, 12–17, 34, 168–70
and authority 31–2
critical studies of 16
and evolution 65–6
framework for 65
‘new religions’ 12
and reason 19–21, 28, 29, 31–2
and revelation 117–25
and ‘special providence’ 92, 94–5, 110
and Western culture 19
see also theology
revelation 20, 32, 117–25, 148
mystical experiences 120, 122, 124
numinous experiences 122
and religious experience 120–1
special 119–21
within religious traditions 119, 120
St Augustine 44, 114, 139, 174
St Paul 13, 74–5, 87, 118–19, 143, 157, 159, 182
Saunders, Nicholas 107–8, 180–1
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 19
science 9–12, 14, 15–17, 22–6, 39–43, 46–7, 48–51, 52, 55, 56, 68–76, 93, 95–104, 139, 145–6, 179, 180
Greek 9–10
and human rationality 26–30
Muslim 10–11
Pythagoreans 10
rise of 9–12
scientific imperialism 6, 7, 11
and Western culture xvi, 5–6, 11–12, 30, 97
see also cosmology, evolution, genetics, philosophy, universe
science and theology xiii–xviii, 5–36, 65–6, 94–5, 99–114, 121–2, 129–34, 135–8, 152–3, 157, 159–60, 161, 170–4, 180–1
Center for Advanced Study in Religion and Science (CASIRAS) xiv
dialogue between 6–7, 14–15, 18–22, 23, 24, 30, 33–6, 94, 106
differences between 6, 7, 14, 15–16, 19–22
Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) xiv
‘natural theology’ 16
quest for meaning 7–9, 15–16, 18, 30–6, 37, 88, 127, 170–1
scientists and spirituality 6–9, 14, 44, 56, 57, 75, 94
sin 79
see also evil
Smethurst, A.F. xiv
Snow, C.P. 5
Sokal, Alan: Intellectual Impostures 23
Spencer, Herbert 74
Stoppard, Tom: Arcadia 5
Temple, Frederick 136
Thales 10
theism 51, 56–7, 130, 136, 138, 139, 142–3
Theissen, Gerd 12
theology 30–6, 59, 65–6, 67, 80, 129–34, 142, 154–62, 166–71, 172, 183
Christology 35
fideism 24
foundationalism 32
fundamentalism 24
and God as suffering 86–7, 142
inference to the best explanation (IBE) in 27–36, 37, 40, 66, 129–30 163, 165
‘natural theology’ (physico-theology) 16, 33, 120
occasionalism 105
see also science and theology
van Till, Howard 77
wave function 97, 105, 106, 180–1, 187
Wheeler Robinson, H. 51
Wilberforce, Samuel 14
Wilson, E.O. 80
Wisdom (Sophia) xvii, 156–8, 159, 162, 163, 164
Beatrice as divine Wisdom 8
wisdom literature 154–8
Virgil as human wisdom 165
Word (Logos) xvii, 111, 158–60, 162, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168–9, 175
world
anthropic principle 70–2
chance and necessity in 75–8, 81, 85, 136
complexity of 40–1, 47, 48–53, 54–6, 67, 69–70, 72–3, 83–4, 85, 93
flow of information in 53–4, 55, 74, 110–11, 119–20
and God 51–3, 69–70, 77, 81, 108–14, 136, 139–40, 145–8, 169, 175
interconnectedness of 54–6, 66–7, 76, 108–10, 139
origins of 67–72
pain and suffering in 83–4, 85, 87, 89, 142
predictability of 58–9, 95–108, 178, 187
as sacramental xvii, 136, 143, 144–53
whole–part influences in 50, 51–3, 60–1, 108–15, 119–20, 121, 124, 130, 138–9
World Council of Churches (WCC) 22, 31
Yarnold, G.D. xiv
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science xiv