CONTENTSPrefaceA Note on the LanguagePart 1: Natural Evolution1. God's Interaction with the World: The Implications of Deterministic "Chaos" and Models from whole-part Constraints and Personal Agency2. Biological Evolution and Christian Theology: Yesterday and Today3. Chance, Potentiality, and God4. Complexity, Emergence, and Divine CreativityPart 2: Humanity Evolving in the Presence of God5. Articulating God's Presence in and to the World Unveiled by the Sciences6. Natural Being and Becoming: The Chrysalis of the Human7. The Nature and Purpose of Man in Science and Christian TheologyPart 3: Theological Evolution-The Reshaping of Belief8. Science and the Future of Theology9. Public Truth in Religion10. The Incarnation of the Self-Expressive Word of God11. DNA of Our DNA12. The Challenges and Possibilities of Western TheismEpilogue13. Wisdom in Science and Education-and Robert Grosseteste, a Medieval Scientist TheologianNotesIndex
Arthur Peacocke (Author)
Dr. Arthur Peacocke, physical biochemist, Anglican priest, and the 2001 Templeton Prize Laureate died on Saturday, October 21, 2006, at age 81.Peacocke began his adult life, in his words, as a "mild" agnostic, but slowly became an adherent of Christianity. Seeking an alternative to automatic acceptance of scriptural authority of the church, however, he began a thorough study of theology, with the encouragement of a professor, Geoffrey Lampe. In 1960, he received a Diploma in Theology and in 1971, a Bachelor of Divinity from Birmingham University.It was at this time that his scientific and theological pursuits tangibly merged with the publication of Science and the Christian Experiment, which he wrote while still a full-time scientist. In 1973, the book won the prestigious Lecomte du Noüy Prize, the first global recognition of Peacocke as a leader in the new discipline of science and religion. That same year, he became Dean of Clare College, Cambridge, allowing him to pursue more fully his interdisciplinary vocation. In 1982 he received a Doctor of Divinity from Oxford and in 1985 became the founder and director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religious Beliefs in Relation to the Sciences, including Medicine, at Oxford.Among his major publications in this area are Creation and the World of Science (1979), which established further his international reputation, Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion (1984), Theology for a Scientific Age (1990, 2nd edition 1993, including his 1993 Gifford Lectures), God and the New Biology (1994), From DNA to DEAN: Reflections and Explorations of a Priest-Scientist (1996), God and Science: A Quest for Christianity Credibility (1996), and Paths from Science Towards God: The End of All Our Exploring (2001).Peacocke had an international reputation for his succinct, no-nonsense method of challenging dominant religious orthodoxies in writing and speech. In an interview with England's Chu