| Wrestling with the Divine Contributor(s): Knight, Christopher C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0800632982 ISBN-13: 9780800632984 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Even people who acknowledge the differences between scientific and religious language often fall back into an apologetic stance in their dialogue. Knight uses the notion of revelation to ask whether scientifically literate people need to be as simplistic in their religion as they are sophisticated in their science. Knight extends the dialogue begun in John Polkinghorne's and Arthur Peacocke's work to explore new possibilities. Their stress on natural processes as the form of divine immanence and the locus of divine action opens the way to Knight's rethinking the psychology of religious experience as a medium of divine revelation. Knight employs the paradigmatic instance of revelation and the early Christian experience of the risen Jesus to investigate the psychological basis of revelatory experience. Knight addresses its reverentiality, authentication, implications for propositional and historical models of revelation. Advancing to a new notion yields: an affirmation of the sacramental and revelatory potential of the created order and a new understanding of natural theology that opens up to other faiths of the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Christian Theology - General - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 231.74 |
| LCCN: 2001025853 |
| Series: Theology & the Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.03" W x 9.02" (0.56 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christopher Knight uses the notion of revelation to ask whether scientifically literate people need to be as simplistic in their religion as they are sophisticated in their science. Knight extends the dialogue begun in John Polkinghorne's and Arthur Peacocke's work to explore new possibilities. Their stress on natural processes as the form of divine immanence and the locus of divine action opens the way to Knight's rethinking the psychology of religious experience as a medium of divine revelation. |