The Future of Creation Order

Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-70880-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 347 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Reihe: New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion

Is the first work in 25 years to deal specifically with the concept of creation order
Brings together philosophers, theologians, physicists, biologists, and social scientists
Explicitly discusses the relation of all contributions to reformational philosophy

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Ridder, Jeroen

Glas, Gerrit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

-          Chapter 1: G. Glas & Jeroen de Ridder – Introduction

Part 1                    The Concept of Creation Order

-          Chapter 2: E. Stump – Natural Law, Metaphysics, and the Creator

-          Chapter 3: D.F.M. Strauss – Is the Idea of "Creational Order" Still Fruitful?

-          Chapter 4: H.G. Geertsema – Creation Order in the Light of Redemption

Part 2                    Creation order, emergence, and the sciences

-          Chapter 5: D.F.M Strauss – Christian Philosophy and Ma

thematics

-          Chapter 6: M.D. Stafleu – Properties, propensities and challenges: Emergence in and from the natural world

-          Chapter 7: A. Sikkema – Nuancing Emergentist Claims: Lessons from Physics

-          Chapter 8: D. Alexander – Order and Emergence in Biological Evolution

-          Chapter 9: J. van der Meer – Biology and the Philosophy of Emergence

-          Chapter 10:  G. Glas – Creation Order and the Sciences of the Person

-          Chapter 11: L. Jaeger – Beyond Emergence? Learning from Dooyeweerdian Anthropology

Part 3                    Creation order and the philosophy of religions

-          Chapter 12: N. Ansell – For the Love of Wisdom

-          Chapter 13: A. Verhoef – Theological Concerns about the Future of Creation Order

-          Chapter 14: H. Schaeffer – A Contribution to the Concept of Creation Order from a Lutheran Perspective

-          Chapter 15: J. van Kessel – Sophia as the foundation of creation order.

Chapter 16: A. Mosher – Out of the Ashes: A Case Study of  Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology and the Orders of Creation

Über Autor(innen)

Gerrit Glas MD PhD is psychiatrist and philosopher and holds the Dooyeweerd Chair for Christian philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main interests are at the interfaces between psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics and society. In 1993 he won the Van Helsdingen award for philosophy and psychiatry. He is editor-in-chief of Philosophia Reformata and a member of the board of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and the Big Questions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jeroen de Ridder PhD is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on social epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. In 2010, he was awarded a Veni research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a project on the epistemic effects of the commercialization of science. In 2015, he received a Vidi research grant from NWO for a project on the epistemology of liberal democracy. He is managing editor of Philosophia Reformata and a member of the board of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and the Big Questions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.