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Creator God, Evolving World
Author(s): Cynthia Crysdale (Author), Neil Ormerod (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 0800698770
- ISBN-13: 9780800698775
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
In this lively and clearly written book, the authors present a clear case for the compatibility of cosmological and evolutionary science and classic belief in God as Creator. This book presents refreshingly novel elements, such as drawing on Bernard Lonergan s notion of finality in order to argue for a directed, but indeterminate Universe in line with current evolutionary thinking. It also, by situating the discussion in a historical context, achieves the complex task of building up insights from physics, biology, metaphysics, theology and ethics in a way that makes it much more manageable for the general reader. Above all this is a book that helps challenge stereotypes set up in the clash between science and Christian religion and allows for a more nuanced classically informed theology to emerge. Such a classic theological position is arguably more robust in the face of profound moral challenges compared with theologies that simply adapt to scientific premises. –Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame
In this lively and clearly written book, the authors present a clear case for the compatibility of cosmological and evolutionary science and classic belief in God as Creator. This book presents refreshingly novel elements, such as drawing on Bernard Lonergan s notion of finality in order to argue for a directed, but indeterminate Universe in line with current evolutionary thinking. It also, by situating the discussion in a historical context, achieves the complex task of building up insights from physics, biology, metaphysics, theology and ethics in a way that makes it much more manageable for the general reader. Above all this is a book that helps challenge stereotypes set up in the clash between science and Christian religion and allows for a more nuanced classically informed theology to emerge. Such a classic theological position is arguably more robust in the face of profound moral challenges compared with theologies that simply adapt to scientific premises. –Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame
About the Author
Cynthia Crysdale is professor of Christian ethics and theology at the School of Theology at Sewanee: University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today (1999), and editor of Lonergan and Feminism (1994).
