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Introduction: A Christian Theology of Science |
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The Difference between And and Of Naming the Uneasy History of Science and Christian Theology |
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Failed Strategies of War and Peace between Science and Religion The Challenge of Making a New Start |
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1 Starting Definitions of Christian Theology and of Science |
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1.1 What Is Christian Theology? |
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1.3 Prescriptive Theology and Descriptive Science |
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1.4 Christian Theology and Science? |
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2 Viewing Christian Theology through the Truth Lens of Science |
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2.1 Empiricism and Christian Theology |
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2.2 Rationalism and Christian Theology |
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2.3 Physical Reductionism and Christian Theology |
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2.4 Are Modern Science and Christian Theology Incompatible? |
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3 Christian Theology as a First Truth Discourse |
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3.1 Secularization and Interpretation |
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3.2 The Primary Interpretive Commitments of Christian Theology |
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3.2.2 God as the Source of All Created Essence and Existence |
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3.3 Theocentric Foundations versus Egocentric Foundations |
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4 Viewing Science through the Truth Lens of Christian Theology |
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4.1 Christian Theology and Empiricism |
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4.2 Christian Theology and Rationalism |
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4.3 Christian Theology and Physical Reductionism |
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4.3.1 Nominalism and Physical Reductionism |
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4.3.2 Voluntarism and Physical Reductionism |
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4.3.3 Pure Matter and Physical Reductionism |
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4.4 Physical Reductionism Is a Useful and Dangerous Abstraction |
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5 The Remarkable Reversal--Revisiting History |
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5.1 Modern Scientific Historiography and Christian Theology |
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5.2 The Social Sciences and Christian Theology |
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5.3 "Science and Religion" and Christian Theology after the 1870s |
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5.3.1 Functional Demarcation |
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5.4 The Unremarkable Remarkable Reversal |
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6 Thinking "After" Science but Nor "After" Christian Theology |
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6.2 Not "After" Christian Theology |
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7 Rediscovering Christian Theological Epistemology |
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7.1 The Fall, the Foundations of Science, and Two Theological Anthropology Trajectories |
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7.3 Can Fallen Humanity Know Nature? |
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7.4 Complexity Issues regarding Natural Light and Divine Light |
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7.5 Distinguishing and Integrating Natural Light and Divine Light |
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7.6 An Integrative Zone for "Science and Religion" Today? |
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7.8 Christian Theological Epistemology and Post-Victorian Science |
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8 Myth and History--the Fall and Science |
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8.1 Myth and History in Christian Theology |
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8.4 The Myth of Secular Progress Falters |
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8.5 Ricoeur on the Four Basic Mythic Archetypes |
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8.5.1 The Mythos of Original Violence |
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8.5.4 The Mythos of Exile |
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8.6 Ricceur on Myth, Time, and Power |
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8.7 What Stands and Falls with the Edenic Fall? |
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8.8 On Finding What You Are Looking for--the "Myth" of Epistemic Neutrality |
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8.9 Eden and the Shibboleth Dynamic |
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8.10 Myth and History--Adam and the Fall |
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8.11 Myth and Christian Theological Epistemology |
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9 Recovering an Integrative Zone |
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9.1 The "Myth" of the Autonomy of Science from Theology |
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9.2 Obstacles to Recovering the Integration of Knowledge and Understanding |
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9.3 Christian Theology's Need for an Integrative Zone for Knowledge and Understanding |
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9.4 Rejecting the Sublimation of Understanding into Knowledge |
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9.5 Obstacles to Integrating Christian Theological Understanding with Scientific Knowledge |
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9.6 What a Working Integrative Zone for Christian Theology and Modern Science Might Look Like |
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9.7 A Confident and Uncomfortable Stance |
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Epilogue: The Future? |
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Glossary |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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