Weighing Interpretations in Science, Biblical Studies, and Life

Weighing Interpretations in Science, Biblical Studies, and Life
Author: Matthew B. Joss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2023
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666918024

This book describes how we find and compare different theories in science, Biblical studies, and everyday life. It offers a new method of diagramming arguments that helps investigators discuss and assess competing interpretations, demonstrating its usefulness with detailed test cases from Biblical studies.

Paul the Storyteller

Paul the Storyteller
Author: Christoph Heilig
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467469076

An incisive study of Paul’s use of stories and narratives in his letters Paul is often thought of as a crafter of numerous and complex arguments, but some scholars, such as N. T. Wright and Richard Hays, have shown that narratives are vitally important in his letters. Through careful examination of the texts, Christoph Heilig demonstrates that Paul is indeed a talented teller of stories—not only explicit narratives but also implicit stories. In this volume, after a decade of research and writing, Heilig presents his definitive report on narrative in Paul. While Richard Hays and N. T. Wright have argued that Paul’s letters contain implicit narratives, Heilig stresses that a sound methodology requires beginning with text-linguistic investigation of explicit narratives. As Heilig argues, focusing on explicit narratives repeatedly redirects our attention to implicit (“almost”) stories. On this basis, he shows that Hays’s “narrative substructures” and Wright’s “worldview” narratives can also be fruitfully integrated into a narratological approach. Paul is a different kind of storyteller than the gospel writers, for example, but at countless points miniature narratives play a crucial role for Paul’s communicative goals. Students and scholars of the New Testament will welcome Heilig’s expert guidance through a hotly debated area of Pauline studies.

God's Two Books

God's Two Books
Author: Kenneth James Howell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is an analysis of how 16th- and 17th-century astronomers and theologians in Northern Protestant Europe used science and religion to challenge and support one another. It argues that these schemes can solve the enduring problem of how theological interpretation and investigation interact.

Being a Christian in Science

Being a Christian in Science
Author: Walter R. Hearn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780830818983

Walter R. Hearn describes what scientists really do and addresses hard questions Christians face about divided loyalties, personal conflicts and loneliness.

The Weighing Interpretations in Science, Biblical Studies, and Life

The Weighing Interpretations in Science, Biblical Studies, and Life
Author: Matthew Joss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Bible and science
ISBN: 9781666918038

"This book describes how we find and compare different theories in science, Biblical studies, and everyday life. It offers a new method of diagramming arguments that helps investigators discuss and assess competing interpretations, demonstrating its usefulness with detailed test cases from Biblical studies"--

Science, Creation and the Bible

Science, Creation and the Bible
Author: Richard F. Carlson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830838899

Physicist Richard Carlson and biblical scholar Tremper Longman address the long-standing problem of how to relate scientific description of the beginnings of the universe with the biblical creation passages found in Genesis. Experts in their respective fields, these two authors provide a way to resolve seeming conflicting descriptions.

Body, Soul, and Human Life

Body, Soul, and Human Life
Author: Joel B. Green
Publisher: Paternoster Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

"Are humans composed of a material body and an immaterial soul? This view is commonly held by Christians, yet it has been undermined by recent developments in neuroscience. How much of Christian theology is built on views of humanity that modern science has proved to be untenable? Exploring what Scripture and theology teach about issues such as being in the divine image, the importance of community, sin, free will, salvation, and the afterlife, Joel Green argues that a dualistic view of the human person is inconsistent with both science and Scripture"--Publisher description (cf OCLC)

Happiness, Well-being and the Meaning of Life

Happiness, Well-being and the Meaning of Life
Author: Vincent Brümmer
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789039002711

The rapid cultural changes which are so characteristic for our time, have had a far reaching effect not only on the universal human research for happiness, well-being and a meaningful existence in our world, but also on the way in which these concepts are understood and misunderstood in contemporary culture. For religious believers their faith determines the ideals of happiness, well-being and meaningfulness which they strive to attain in their lives. But are these ideals timelessly the same for all time and for all people or are they too subject to historical change and cultural variation ? Social scientists examine the way in which these ideals are culturally pluriform and subject to empirical change in religious and cultural communities and traditions. But what do these concepts mean for social scientists ? Do they use them in the same way as religious believers and theologians do ? In December 1992, the Center for Theological Exploration Inc. sponsored its fourth (and final) Consultation on Science and Religion at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. For that occasion a distinguished international group of theologians and social scientists were invited to discuss these issues. Most of the contributions to this volume were originally presented as papers at that consultation.

The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaparadigm Shift to a Conscious Universe

The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaparadigm Shift to a Conscious Universe
Author: Dr. Alan Ross Hugenot
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1457546949

"Alan Hugenot" lectures on “the Leading-Edge Science of the Afterlife,… he concluded that the entire universe is conscious and that this explains both near-death experiences and certain paradoxes of quantum theory…. As someone with a physics degree, I know that Hugenot’s….basic idea of a conscious universe is neither crazy nor new…. Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum physics, was an avid student of Hindu philosophy, and believed something similar." Gideon Lichfield, April 2015 Atlantic Monthly “The existence of a hidden field (Bohm’s implicate order) of non-physical consciousness, occupying as yet undiscerned additional dimensions, which are outside the visible reality (Bohm’s explicate order) as defined by 3-D plus time, has now been proven scientifically by the following collated data: Recent repeated replication of John Bell’s theory of non-locality, Studies of the Near-Death experience, and After-death communications demonstrated in triple blind laboratory experiments testing evidential mediumship This hidden field (implicate order) of non-physical consciousness, also provides the matrix upon which the explicate order of observed reality is continually manifested." Alan Hugenot “Our challenge is to discover, through careful science, how we can interface with this matrix of consciousness. Viewing psi phenomena as belonging to aspects of reality, about which we as yet simply know very little, is the only honest way for any scientist to proceed. Healthy scientific skepticism must be open to new discoveries; and so allow open examination of the scientific data developed by rigorous para-normal research. Honest, open minded inquiry will bring both new discoveries of truth and new laws of physics beyond the limits of the Newtonian paradigm. Alan Hugenot