Creator God, Evolving World - Tapa blanda

This scientifically informed work makes a major contribution to contemporary theological understanding of evolution. Relying especially on important ideas of Bernard Lonergan, it skillfully debunks both atheistic and religious distortions of Darwin s science. --John F. Haught, Georgetown University

In this lively and clearly written book, the authors present a clear case for the compatibility of cosmological and evolutionary science and classic belief in God as Creator. This book presents refreshingly novel elements, such as drawing on Bernard Lonergan s notion of finality in order to argue for a directed, but indeterminate Universe in line with current evolutionary thinking. It also, by situating the discussion in a historical context, achieves the complex task of building up insights from physics, biology, metaphysics, theology and ethics in a way that makes it much more manageable for the general reader. Above all this is a book that helps challenge stereotypes set up in the clash between science and Christian religion and allows for a more nuanced classically informed theology to emerge. Such a classic theological position is arguably more robust in the face of profound moral challenges compared with theologies that simply adapt to scientific premises. --Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

In this lively and clearly written book, the authors present a clear case for the compatibility of cosmological and evolutionary science and classic belief in God as Creator. This book presents refreshingly novel elements, such as drawing on Bernard Lonergan s notion of finality in order to argue for a directed, but indeterminate Universe in line with current evolutionary thinking. It also, by situating the discussion in a historical context, achieves the complex task of building up insights from physics, biology, metaphysics, theology and ethics in a way that makes it much more manageable for the general reader. Above all this is a book that helps challenge stereotypes set up in the clash between science and Christian religion and allows for a more nuanced classically informed theology to emerge. Such a classic theological position is arguably more robust in the face of profound moral challenges compared with theologies that simply adapt to scientific premises. --Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

Cynthia Crysdale and Neil Ormerod here present a robust theology of God in light of supposed tensions between Christian belief and evolutionary science. Those who pit faith in an almighty and unchanging God over against a world in which chance is operative have it wrong on several accounts, they insist. Creator God, Evolving World clarifies a number of confused assumptions in an effort to redeem chance as an intelligible force interacting with stable patterns in nature.

A proper conception of probabilities and regularities in the worlds unfolding reveals neither random chaos nor a predetermined blueprint but a view of the universe as the fruit of both chance and necessity. By clarifying terms often used imprecisely in both scientific and theological discourse, the authors make the case that the role of chance in evolution neither mitigates Gods radical otherness from creation nor challenges the efficacy of Gods providence in the world.