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Divine and Contingent Order

Divine and Contingent Order

Torrance, Thomas F.

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0567043215
ISBN13: 9780567043214
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Jul 20 2005
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.47
Language: English

This book examines the implications of the Judaeo-Christian claim for our understanding of the universe that it is contingent: freely created by God out of nothing, and having an existence, freedom, and rtional order of its own while still dependent on him.

Professor Torrance argues that this claim made possible the development of western empirical science, but that Newtonian physics obscured the connection between the rational order of nature and the Christian doctrine of creation. He shows how modern relativity and quantum theories have once againd rawn attention to the significance of contingence, and imply that the universe is found to be consistently rational only if it is dependent on a creative rationality beyond it.

He considers finally the disorderly elements in the universe, both physical and moral, and argues that the doctrine of incarnation as well as of creation is necessary to deal with the intellectual problems which they raise.

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