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E-book Faith Seeking Understanding

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The debate between faith and science is an ongoing and quickly evolving field of study, which touches many areas of investigation. This collection of essays informs readers about some of the discourses and themes that are currently driving the faith-science debate. The aim is not to provide a uniform or exhaustive meta-narrative on faith and science nor to focus on micro-level specifics, but rather to create a sense of and interest in newly evolving areas of scholarly interest. Some of the topics addressed include biblical hermeneutics and science, immanence and transcendence, human origins, faith and technology, faith and bioethics, faith and medicine and the question of meaning. Contributors to this volume come from different Christian backgrounds and confessional traditions. While differences in opinion are readily apparent, they all agree that faith and science can complement and enrich each other in a variety of ways.J.M. Vorster starts off the discussion by reflecting on how science and faith can enrich each other. The Belgic Confession, which explains the core doctrines of faith in the reformed theological tradition, commences with the affirmation of the existence of a spiritual being, which we call God. It continues to say that God is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good and the overflowing fountain of all good. God reveals himself to humankind by way of his word in nature and his written word. This confession calls nature ‘God’s most beautiful book’. Although science cannot lead us into a personal and reconciled relationship with God, it testifies to God’s governance of all things. From this angle of approach, the chapter ventures to construct bridges between the faith community and natural scientists to serve the faith-science dialogue. These bridges can aid a profitable discourse. It includes the post-positivist assumption about the metatheories of theology and natural sciences that honour the plausibility of theology as a science; the mutual hypothesis that there was an origin in the development of the universe and everything it contains; the mutual hypothesis that there is movement and direction in all spheres of reality and the growing hypothesis in cosmology that reality is steering to an end. Vorster contends that the reformed faith and the knowledge produced by natural sciences can be reconciled to a large extent when scholars from both camps cross these bridges within the context of God’s revelation in Scripture and the beautiful book of nature. Within this framework, issues such as life and death, evil and suffering, hope and beauty can be explored. Furthermore, the reformed faith can be enriched by findings from the natural sciences and should therefore constantly engage in the faith-science dialogue to explore new knowledge about God and to develop theology in light of this new knowledge within the context of God’s revelation in Scripture.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

234.2 VOR f

Penerbit

South Africa : AOSIS Publishing., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

194 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781776342297

Klasifikasi

234.2

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Faith and Hope

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