God and natural order : physics, philosophy, and theology / Shaun C. Henson.
In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept wit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1 [edition] |
| Series: | Routledge studies in religion ;
36. |
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| Summary: | In God and Natural Order: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology, Shaun Henson brings a theological approach to bear on contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on the ordered or disordered nature of the universe. Henson engages arguments for a unified theory of the laws of nature, a concept with monotheistic metaphysical and theological leanings, alongside the pluralistic viewpoints set out by Nancy Cartwright and other philosophers of science, who contend that the nature of physical reality is intrinsically complex and irreducible to a single unifying theory. Drawing on the wor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317915010 1315851210 9781315851211 1317915011 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2019) |