parsifal schreef:Het is op zich een goed boek, nuttig voor iedereen die geinteresseerd is in deze materie.
Verwacht echter wel een boek van een wetenschapper. Tussen de regels door is het standpunt van McGrath zelf wel te vinden, maar er worden ook visies beschreven zonder dat daar een waardeoordeel aan gegeven wordt.
In dit kader zou ik ook graag verwijzen naar de boeken: "The Soul of Science" en "Total Truth" van Nancy Pearcey en het werk van Francis Schaeffer.
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This groundbreaking three-volume work by one of the world's best-known theologians is the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation between theology and science ever undertaken. Drawing on both his firsthand experience of scientific research and his vast knowledge of the Christian tradition, Alister McGrath explores how the natural sciences can be used by the Christian faith.
The first volume - "Nature" - sets out a vision for a "scientific theology" in which the working assumptions of the natural sciences are critically appropriated as a theological resource. It then deals at length with the important status of nature, a concept that has rarely been given the serious consideration it deserves. Responding to the view that the term "nature" is merely a social construct, McGrath gives the concept a proper grounding in the Christian doctrine of creation, exploring in the process the use of natural theology in contemporary Christian thought.
"Reality", the much-anticipated second part of McGrath's comprehensive project, provides a detailed and thorough defense of theological realism against radical challenges from Western philosophy. Drawing on both his firsthand experience with scientific research and his vast knowledge of the Christian tradition, McGrath sets out a sophisticated affirmation of theological realism that challenges head-on counterarguments lodged by modern and postmodern critics. McGrath shows how a true and reliable view of the world finds a solid foundation in natural theology, and he demonstrates the implications of this position for every aspect of Christian thought.
"Theory" is the final volume in a truly groundbreaking work by one of the world's best-known theologians. As a whole, A Scientific Theology is the most extended and systematic exploration of the relation between theology and science ever undertaken. Now complete, it will surely become a standard entry into modern Christian thought. In Theory Alister McGrath deals with the question of how reality is represented in Christian theology and the natural sciences. Building on the insights of thinkers like Martin Heidegger and Jurgen Habermas, McGrath argues that theory is to be conceived in terms of the "communal beholding of reality." Thusly understood, theory is primarily a response to an experienced reality, which, for the Christian community, demands theological expression. In the course of unpacking the implications of this perspective, McGrath addresses such subjects as the explanatory dimensions of theology, the place of metaphysics in Christian theology, and the nature of revelation itself.