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Author | : David Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-05-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567614336 |
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Does matter matter? The scientific picture of the end of the physical Universe has undergone dramatic changes since the turn of the 21st century, with its future characterized by accelerated expansion and futility. Yet Christian theology has been largely silent on this, despite the interest in eschatology in popular culture and in theology itself. What can Christian theology learn from and contribute to the scientific picture of the future of the Universe? Can the biblical narratives of creation and new creation have a fruitful dialogue with scientific discoveries? David Wilkinson shows what a fruitful dialogue this can be. Critiquing the folk eschatology of the Left Behind series, the misguided faith of the scientific optimists and the lack of scientific engagement of the theologians of hope, Wilkinson argues for a rediscovery of the theological theme of new creation and the centrality of bodily resurrection.
Author | : George Francis Rayner Ellis |
Publisher | : Templeton Foundation Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781890151904 |
Download The Far-future Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Will our universe continue to expand 100 billion years from now? Does human life and all intelligence inevitably come to an end as the universe evolves? Could our present space be converted catastrophically in to a new kind of space governed by different physical laws? Can we construct a theology of the future universe? Would the continuation of the universe for eternity be a good thing? The Far-Future Universe presents eighteen provocative essays offering speculations on various scenarios for the future, from the perspectives of cosmology, physics, biology, humanity and theology. Other contributors consider global time, artificial intelligence, religious ideas about the end of the world, and the nature of existence. Stimulating, challenging and exciting, these visions of the far future are a starting point for further reflection and speculation.
Author | : David Wilkinson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567045463 |
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This book argues that the Christian understanding of new creation speaks powerfully to both theologians and scientists.
Author | : Robert John Russell |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0268091773 |
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According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of “time and eternity” is central to the relation between God and the world in two ways. First, it involves the notion of the divine eternity as the supratemporal source of creaturely time. Second, it involves the eternity of the eschatological New Creation beginning with the bodily Resurrection of Jesus in relation to creaturely time. The key to Russell's engagement with these issues, and the purpose of this book, is to explore Wolfhart Pannenberg’s treatment of time and eternity in relation to mathematics, physics, and cosmology. Time in Eternity is the first book-length exposition of Russell’s unique method for relating Christian theology and the natural sciences, which he calls “creative mutual interaction” (CMI). This method first calls for a reformulation of theology in light of science and then for the delineation of possible topics for research in science drawing on this reformulated theology. Accordingly, Russell first reformulates Pannenberg’s discussion of the divine attributes—eternity and omnipresence—in light of the way time and space are treated in mathematics, physics, and cosmology. This leads him to construct a correlation of eternity and omnipresence in light of the spacetime framework of Einstein’s special relativity. In the process he proposes a new flowing time interpretation of relativity to counter the usual block universe interpretation supported by most physicists and philosophers of science. Russell also replaces Pannenberg’s use of Hegel’s concept of infinity in relation to the divine attributes with the concept of infinity drawn from the mathematics of Georg Cantor. Russell then addresses the enormous challenge raised by Big Bang cosmology to Christian eschatology. In response, he draws on Pannenberg’s interpretation both of the Resurrection as a proleptic manifestation of the eschatological New Creation within history and the present as the arrival of the future. Russell shows how such a reformulated understanding of theology can shed light on possible directions for fundamental research in physics and cosmology. These lead him to explore preconditions in contemporary physics research for the possibility of duration, copresence, retroactive causality, and prolepsis in nature.
Author | : John Polkinghorne |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781563383120 |
Download The End of the World and the Ends of God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this provocative collection of essays, scientists, theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars look at eschatology through their various lenses.
Author | : J. Richard Middleton |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441241388 |
Download A New Heaven and a New Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years, more and more Christians have come to appreciate the Bible's teaching that the ultimate blessed hope for the believer is not an otherworldly heaven; instead, it is full-bodied participation in a new heaven and a new earth brought into fullness through the coming of God's kingdom. Drawing on the full sweep of the biblical narrative, J. Richard Middleton unpacks key Old Testament and New Testament texts to make a case for the new earth as the appropriate Christian hope. He suggests its ethical and ecclesial implications, exploring the difference a holistic eschatology can make for living in a broken world.
Author | : Frank J. Tipler |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1997-09-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0385467990 |
Download The Physics of Immortality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is there a higher power in the universe? What happens to us when we die? Leading physicist Frank J. Tipler tackles these questions and more in an astonishing and profoundly important book that scientifically proves the existence of God and the physical resurrection of the dead.
Author | : Joseph A. Bracken |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802828118 |
Download World Without End Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marjorie Suchocki's ground-breaking work "The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context (SUNY, 1988) serves as the backdrop for a series of essays by distinguished Christian philosophers and theologians on the usefulness of process thought for the articulation of a contemporary Christian Eschatology in the light of postmodernism and contemporary natural science.
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Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861018 |
Download Revelation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author | : Gene L. Green |
Publisher | : Langham Publishing |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 178368724X |
Download All Things New Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Christian faith presents a distinctive vision of last things: that God in Christ aims to reconcile the world to himself, and through his Spirit and a new people, to set all things to right. This good news is for all nations and peoples, but for too long the Christian doctrine of eschatology has focused on debates and arguments rooted solely in the Western church. In All Things New, leading theologians and biblical scholars from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America offer readers a glimpse of how Christians around the globe are perceiving and describing the Christian hope. The result is a remarkably refreshing and distinctive vision of eschatology guaranteed to raise new questions and add new insights to the global church’s vision of the eschaton.