Science and Providence: God's Interaction with the World PDF

John Carlton Polkinghorn, britischer theoretischer Physiker, religiöser Denker, Schriftsteller und anglikanischer Priester, geboren 1930 Als Präsident des Queen's College Cambridge von 1988 bis 1996 verfasste Polkinghorne fünf Bücher über Physik und sechsundzwanzig Bücher über die Beziehung zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion. Zu seinen Büchern gehören Quantum World 1989, Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Connection 2005, Exploring Truth: The Intertwining of Science and Religion 2007, Questions of Truth 2009, A Polkinghorn Reader (herausgegeben von Thomas J. Ord) und Bereitstellung wichtiger Zusammenfassungen von Polkinghorns Büchern zu den einflussreichsten Büchern, wurde 1997 zum Ritter geschlagen und erhielt 2002 einen Templeton-Preis in Höhe von 1 Million Pfund Sterling für seine herausragenden Beiträge zur Bekräftigung der spirituellen Dimension des Lebens.

Science and Providence: God's Interaction with the World pdf von John Polkinghorne

Internationally renowned priest-scientist Dr. John C. Polkinghorne examines whether a personal, interacting God is a credible concept in today's scientific age. Encouraging the belief that there is a compatibility between the insights of science and the insights of religion, this book, previously published in the United Kingdom, focuses on the viewpoint that the world is one in which both human beings and God have the freedom to act.A modern understanding of the physical world is applied to questions of prayer and providence, such as: Do miracles happen? Can prayer change anything? Why does evil exist? Why does God allow suffering? Why does God need us to ask him?God's involvement in time is considered, from both a temporal and an eternal perspective. The roles of incarnation and sacrament are discussed in terms of whether or not they have a credible place in today's worldview. And the Final Anthropic Principle (FAP) is presented, with its attempt at a physical eschatology, showing it to be an inadequate basis for hope. Real hope can reside only with God, Polkinghorne concludes.