All That Is

by Arthur Peacocke

Overview

During the last year of his life, Arthur Peacocke worked to formulate a final comprehensive statement of his proposal for reconciling religious faith and the results of the sciences today. Strikingly frank about the need for Christian theologians and religious persons generally to face the dramatic impasse between religion and the naturalistic assumptions of contemporary science, Peacocke formulated a "theistic naturalism" that harmonizes core theological commitments with the science-based worldview of evolution and emergence. His groundbreaking "Essay in Interpretation," which sketches the interrelations between God, nature, and humanity, will prove a nascent classic in the field and a touchstone for further reflection. Ten leading thinkers were invited to respond to Peacocke's new proposal. Led by editor Philip Clayton, they include: Donald M. Braxton, Willem B. Drees. Philip Hefner, Christopher C. Knight, Nancey Murphy, Ann Pederson, Karl E. Peters, Robert John Russell, and Keith Ward. In the last weeks and months of his life, Peacocke drew together a final set of reflections and replies to their chapters. Peacocke's "Nunc Dimittis," his personal theological reflections in the days before his death, completes this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451403923
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	571 KB

Table of Contents

Contributors     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Editor's Introduction   Philip Clayton     xi
A Naturalistic Christian Faith for the Twenty-First Century: An Essay in Interpretation   Arthur Peacocke
Preface     3
Prologue: Naturalism, Theism, and Religion     5
Philosophical and Theological Consequences of the Scientific Perspective
Emergentist Monism     12
Theistic Naturalism     17
Panentheism     21
The Consequences for Theology of the Reappraisal of the Natural
The Application of an "Emergentist-Naturalistic-Panentheistic" Perspective     26
Jesus of Nazareth-A Naturalistic Interpretation     29
Jesus the Christ-A Naturalistic "Incarnation"?     36
The Eucharist-A Natural Enactment     42
God's Interaction with the World     45
Transforming Grace     48
Conclusion     55
Responses
Arthur Peacocke's Theology of Possibilities   Philip Hefner     59
Some Words in Favor of Reductionism, Pantheism, Theism, and More   Willem B. Drees     70
Emergence, Naturalism, and Panentheism: An Eastern Christian Perspective   Christopher C. Knight     81
Empirical Theology and a "Naturalistic Christian Faith"   Karl E. Peters     93
Sacrament and Sacrifice: The Feedback Loops of Religious Community   Donald M. Braxton     104
The Juxtaposition of Naturalistic and Christian Faith: Reappraising the Natural from within a Different Theological Lens   Ann Pederson     119
Arthur Peacocke: Postmodern Prophet   Nancey Murphy     130
Arthur Peacocke on Method in Theology and Science and His Model of the Divine/World Interaction: An Appreciative Assessment   Robert John Russell     140
Personhood, Spirit, and the Supernatural   Keith Ward     152
On Divine and Human Agency: Reflections of a Co-Laborer   Philip Clayton     163
Reflections on the Responses   Arthur Peacocke     176
Nunc Dimittis   Arthur Peacocke     191
"God"     195
A Short Life of Jesus     196
God's Interaction with the World     199
Notes     201