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In Metaphysics as Christology, Jonael Schickler presents a major
contribution to both philosophy and theology. First he examines the
key philosophical problems with which Kant and Hegel grappled, and
finds in the work of Rudolf Steiner the essence of a solution to
them; he claims that Steiner returned to Hegel's philosophical
problems but was better able to solve them. Schickler uses these
philosophical debates about knowledge and truth to understand the
significance of Christ. Building on the work of Hegel, Schickler
argues that Christ has made possible the developments in human
consciousness that restore humanity's relationship to the
surrounding world. This is a bold and rigorous work that opens up
new directions in both philosophy and theology. Fraser Watts
contributes the Foreword and George Pattison an extensive Preface.
This title was first published in 2002: Many people are now
interested in the relationship between religion and science, but
links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively
neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian
theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue
in both directions. Current scientific topics like consciousness
and artificial intelligence are examined from a religious
perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and activity
in the world are then examined in the light of psychology. This
accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers students
and general readers alike important insights into new areas of the
"science and religion" debate.
Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the
lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the
'laws of nature' indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what
is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both
science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth
coverage of an important but neglected topic. Including
perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the
backing of the International Society for Science and Religion
(ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of
history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology,
and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions.
This book presents a celebration, survey and critique of the
theological work of arguably the most important and most
widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and
theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by
Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, this book
draws together contributors from among the most important voices in
the science-theology dialogue today to focus on key aspects of
Polkinghorne's work, with Polkinghorne providing responses. Anybody
exploring contemporary aspects of the science-religion debate will
find this book invaluable.
Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the
lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the
'laws of nature' indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what
is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both
science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth
coverage of an important but neglected topic. Including
perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the
backing of the International Society for Science and Religion
(ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of
history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology,
and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions.
This title was first published in 2002: Many people are now
interested in the relationship between religion and science, but
links between Christian belief and psychology have been relatively
neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between Christian
theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching the dialogue
in both directions. Current scientific topics like consciousness
and artificial intelligence are examined from a religious
perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and activity
in the world are then examined in the light of psychology. This
accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers students
and general readers alike important insights into new areas of the
"science and religion" debate.
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion
and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have
been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between
Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching
the dialogue in both directions. Current scientific topics like
consciousness and artificial intelligence are examined from a
religious perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and
activity in the world are then examined in the light of psychology.
This accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers
students and general readers alike important insights into new
areas of the 'science and religion' debate. Fraser Watts is
Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science at the
University of Cambridge, UK, and author of many books including
Christians and Bioethics (SPCK); Science Meets Faith (SPCK),
Psychology for Christian Ministry (Routledge), and The Psychology
of Religious Knowing (CUP).
This book presents a celebration, survey and critique of the
theological work of arguably the most important and most
widely-read contributor to the modern dialogue between science and
theology: John Polkinghorne. Including a major survey by
Polkinghorne himself of his life's work in theology, this book
draws together contributors from among the most important voices in
the science-theology dialogue today to focus on key aspects of
Polkinghorne's work, with Polkinghorne providing responses. Anybody
exploring contemporary aspects of the science-religion debate will
find this book invaluable.
In Metaphysics as Christology, Jonael Schickler presents a major
contribution to both philosophy and theology. First he examines the
key philosophical problems with which Kant and Hegel grappled, and
finds in the work of Rudolf Steiner the essence of a solution to
them. He claims that Steiner returned to Hegel's philosophical
problems but was better able to solve them. Schickler uses these
philosophical debates about knowledge and truth to understand the
significance of Christ. Building on the work of Hegel, Schickler
argues that Christ has made possible the developments in human
consciousness that restore humanity's relationship to the
surrounding world. This is a bold and rigorous work that opens up
new directions in both philosophy and theology. Fraser Watts
contributes the Foreword and George Pattison an extensive Preface.
Many people are now interested in the relationship between religion
and science, but links between Christian belief and psychology have
been relatively neglected. This book opens up the dialogue between
Christian theology and modern scientific psychology, approaching
the dialogue in both directions. Current scientific topics like
consciousness and artificial intelligence are examined from a
religious perspective. Christian themes such as God's purposes and
activity in the world are then examined in the light of psychology.
This accessible study on psychology and Christian belief offers
students and general readers alike important insights into new
areas of the 'science and religion' debate. Fraser Watts is
Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science at the
University of Cambridge, UK, and author of many books including
Christians and Bioethics (SPCK); Science Meets Faith (SPCK),
Psychology for Christian Ministry (Routledge), and The Psychology
of Religious Knowing (CUP).
This introduction to psychology has been devised for those training for and working in the clergy. Ideal both as a professional handbook and a textbook, it covers social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, as well as the psychology of religion. It carefully considers the processes of personal change and growth central to religion. eBook available with sample pages: 0203398246
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a
critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and
spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first
such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts
recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking
different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents
a broad view of psychology; whatever kind of psychology you are
interested in, you will find it covered here, from biological to
social, and from experimental to psychoanalytic. It focuses
particularly on the varied concepts that psychologists have
employed to make sense of religion and subjects them to critical
examination. The book is also concerned with practical
applications, helping those engaged in religious ministry. It will
be of interest to undergraduates and general readers, as well as
specialists in religious studies, psychology, and philosophy of
religion.
The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are
involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct
knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith'
possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people
come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at
personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at
religious insights. The psychological processes involved in
religious knowing are described in the terminology of contemporary
cognitive psychology.
This comprehensive introduction to psychology has been devised for those training for and working in the clergy. Ideal both as a professional handbook and a textbook, it covers social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, as well as the psychology of religion. It carefully considers the processes of personal change and growth central to religion.
There has recently been much interest in the relationship between
science and religion, and how they combine to give us a 'binocular'
perspective on things. One important phenomenon which has been
neglected in recent work is the concept of spiritual healing. This
edited collection explores a variety of approaches to spiritual
healing from different religious points of view, identifying both
what it is and how it works. The authors also explore the
biological and psychological processes, open to scientific enquiry,
through which healing may be mediated. As such, this book indicates
the central proposition that religious and scientific perspectives
answer different questions about healing, and there is not
necessarily any conflict between them.
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a
critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and
spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first
such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts
recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking
different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents
a broad view of psychology; whatever kind of psychology you are
interested in, you will find it covered here, from biological to
social, and from experimental to psychoanalytic. It focuses
particularly on the varied concepts that psychologists have
employed to make sense of religion and subjects them to critical
examination. The book is also concerned with practical
applications, helping those engaged in religious ministry. It will
be of interest to undergraduates and general readers, as well as
specialists in religious studies, psychology, and philosophy of
religion.
Here is a book that takes people on a personal journey, a journey
that is both spiritual and psychological: a three-fold journey that
leads you, the reader, to face issues about yourself, raises
challenges about relationships, and points towards what is above
and beyond. Fraser Watts draws on his own Christian tradition in a
way that is relevant to spiritual people everywhere, whatever
tradition they belong to, or if they are of no religious tradition
at all. It is a book to be read reflectively, giving some time to
make connections between what is gently written in the pages and
your own experience of life; if you let it, Living Deeply will help
you join up a spiritual perspective with your own psychological
issues.Such a journey could change a life. Perhaps it will change
yours, helping you to see what deeper issues are at stake as you
journey through life, and give you a spiritual compass to respond
to life's challenges. This book will help you,indeed, to be living
more deeply.
The last 20 years have seen the development of a growing body of
psychological literature on the long-neglected subject of
forgiveness. Forgiveness has been widely regarded as a purely
religious construct, and its associations with a 'neurotic;
Christianity perhaps led to its exile from the consulting room.
However, recently it has been advocated in many different secular
contexts as offering an appropriate and healthy means of release
from the wrongdoing on social, interpersonal and individual levels.
'Forgiveness in Context' represents a comprehensive volume dealing
with a whole range of contextual issues in which forgiveness may be
embedded, and continues to address the idealism which has sometimes
influenced discussions on the subject. The book continually engages
the reader on both psychological and theological levels in a
sustained dialogue that has not permeated any of the books already
available on forgiveness to the extent we propose here. Although
some of the chapters have a more psychological 'flavour', whilst
others are theological in tone, it is central to the ethos of this
book that it should weave psychology and theology together
throughout all chapters.
This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences
in people's understanding of their environment. The contributors
consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place
connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact
with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship
experiences. The volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to
discuss the psychological links between place and religious
experiences.The chapters within provide insights for understanding
how people's experiences with geographical places and the sacred
serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and
psychological adjustment in everyday life.
'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of
topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a
reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the
genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary
narratives ...'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always
need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the
one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the
lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is
being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes
arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to
consider how the broader context influences bottom-up processes;
that involves looking at how the whole influences the parts.
Neither approach is satisfactory on its own. There is always a need
to integrate the consideration of how parts influence wholes with
how wholes influence parts.This book arises from a concern that in
the public dissemination of biology the need to integrate these
different perspectives is not coming across well. In
popularisations, simplistic micro explanations always seem to
arouse most interest and to capture the headlines. That risks
distorting and simplifying the complexity of biological processes,
and can mislead people. In this book we are urging a concerted
attempt to come to grips with the interactive complexity of
biology, and to find ways of conveying it to the public accessibly
and effectively.We are particularly concerned with how biology is
communicated to the public. Too often, what comes over to the
public is a crude, out-of-date, simplistic, mono-causal,
reductionist biology. Why so? Why is biology so misrepresented? Who
is responsible? It is partly the media, of course, but we suggest
that biologists themselves are often partly responsible. When it
comes to communication with the public, they tend to over-simplify
in a way that distorts.Related Link(s)
'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of
topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a
reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the
genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary
narratives ...'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always
need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the
one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the
lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is
being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes
arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to
consider how the broader context influences bottom-up processes;
that involves looking at how the whole influences the parts.
Neither approach is satisfactory on its own. There is always a need
to integrate the consideration of how parts influence wholes with
how wholes influence parts.This book arises from a concern that in
the public dissemination of biology the need to integrate these
different perspectives is not coming across well. In
popularisations, simplistic micro explanations always seem to
arouse most interest and to capture the headlines. That risks
distorting and simplifying the complexity of biological processes,
and can mislead people. In this book we are urging a concerted
attempt to come to grips with the interactive complexity of
biology, and to find ways of conveying it to the public accessibly
and effectively.We are particularly concerned with how biology is
communicated to the public. Too often, what comes over to the
public is a crude, out-of-date, simplistic, mono-causal,
reductionist biology. Why so? Why is biology so misrepresented? Who
is responsible? It is partly the media, of course, but we suggest
that biologists themselves are often partly responsible. When it
comes to communication with the public, they tend to over-simplify
in a way that distorts.Related Link(s)
This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences
in people's understanding of their environment. The contributors
consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place
connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact
with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship
experiences. The volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to
discuss the psychological links between place and religious
experiences.The chapters within provide insights for understanding
how people's experiences with geographical places and the sacred
serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and
psychological adjustment in everyday life.
The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to
consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical
and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading
scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the major
themes. The volume embodies and develops the recent revival of
interest in natural theology as a topic of serious critical
engagement. Frequently misunderstood or polemicized, natural
theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence
throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the
classical Greek theology of the philosophers to twenty-first
century debates in science and religion. Of interest to students
and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this authoritative
handbook draws on the very best of contemporary scholarship to
present a critical overview of the subject area. Thirty eight new
essays trace the transformations of natural theology in different
historical and religious contexts, the place of natural theology in
different philosophical traditions and diverse scientific
disciplines, and the various cultural and aesthetic approaches to
natural theology to reveal a rich seam of multi-faceted theological
reflection rooted in human nature and the environments within which
we find ourselves.
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