- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
- Faithfulness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
- Priest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
- Do Your Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020