Name: Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity (en Inglés)
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Author: McCall, Bradford ; Clayton, Philip
ISBN: 9781725278523

portada Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity (en Inglés)

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bradford McCall

Prefacio de

Philip Clayton

Editorial

Pickwick Publications

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

284

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781725278523

Categorías

Religión y ciencia
Cristianismo
Teología

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity (en Inglés)

Bradford McCall (Autor) · Philip Clayton (Prefacio de) · Pickwick Publications · Tapa Blanda

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What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.