Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action

This collection of thirteen essays assesses a series of five scholarly publications resulting from five international research conferences co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory (VO) and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) between 1991 and 2000. The overarching goal of this series was to advance the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences with special attention to the advance the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences with special attention to the theme of divine action and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements within science

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Critical appraisals of the Series as A Whole
Challenge and Progress in ôTheology and Scienceö: An Overview of the VO/CTNS Series	p. 3
Scientific Issues: Ground Covered and Horizons Unfolding	p. 57
Philosophical Analysis of Specific Issues In The Series
Toward a Theory of Divine Action That Has Traction	p. 85
Emergence, Downward Causation, and Divine Action	p. 111
The Divine Action Project, 1988-2003	p. 133
Theological Analysis of Specific Issues In The Series
Special Divine Action and the Quilt of Laws: Why the Distinction between Special and General Divine Action Cannot Be Maintained	p. 179
Some Reflections on 'Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action'	p. 201
Conceiving Divine Action in a Dynamic Universe	p. 225
Speical Divine Action and the Laws of Nature	p. 249
Divine Action in an Emergent Cosmos	p. 285
Does God Need Room to Act? Theo-Physical In/Compatibilism in Noninterventionist Theories Of Objectively Special Divine Action	p. 299
Reflections on the VO/CTNS Series on Divine Action from the Perspective of Theology and Science	p. 315
Resources for Further Research
Contributors	p. 333
Name Index	p. 335
Subject Index	p. 340
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