Wrestling with the Divine: Religion, Science, and Revelation

by Christopher C. Knight

Overview

Christopher Knight uses the notion of revelation to ask whether scientifically literate people need to be as simplistic in their religion as they are sophisticated in their science.

Knight extends the dialogue begun in John Polkinghorne's and Arthur Peacocke's work to explore new possibilities. Their stress on natural processes as the form of divine immanence and the locus of divine action opens the way to Knight's rethinking the psychology of religious experience as a medium of divine revelation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800632984
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/24/2001
Series:	Theology and the Sciences
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Christopher C. Knight is Senior Research Associate at the Von Hugel Institute, St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, England. He is author of Wrestling with the Divine (2001, 978-0- 8006-3298-4), also in the Theology and the Sciences series.

Table of Contents

Preface

Science and Theology in Dialogue

Divine Action and Pansacramental Naturalism

The Easter Experiences: An Incarnationist Approach

Revelatory Experience and "Mere" Psychology

Revelation, Reference, and Rationality

Revelation as "Data"

The Puzzle-Solving Nature of Theological Language Use

Puzzle Solutions and the Theology of Nature

Structure not Substance: A Radically Modified Realism

Structural Realism and the Language of Theology

Psychology, Reference, and the Faiths of the World

Afterword

Notes

Index