- Books (essay collections)
- 5 books of essays
- Level: university
From 1993-2002, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (a program of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California) at Berkeley collaborated with the Vatican Observatory to produce five books of research level articles on the question of Divine Action in the Universe.
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The following all link to http://www.counterbalance.net/ctns-vo/index-body.html:
Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (click on each for further information)
Introduction
Chaos and Complexity
- Crutchfield, James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, and Robert S. Shaw. “Chaos.”
- Drees, Willem B. “Gaps for God?”
- Edwards, Denis. “The Discovery of Chaos and the Retrieval of the Trinity.”
- Ellis, George F. R. “Ordinary and Extraordinary Divine Action: The Nexus of Interaction.”
- Gilkey, Langdon. “The God of Nature.”
- Happel, Stephen. “Divine Providence and Instrumentality: Metaphors of Time in Self-Organizing Systems and Divine Action.”
- Heller, Michael. “Chaos, Probability, and the Comprehensibility of the World.”
- Kuppers, Bernd-Olaf. “Understanding Complexity.”
- Moltmann, Jurgen. “Reflections on Chaos and God’s Interaction with the World from a Trinitarian Perspective.”
- Murphy, Nancey. “Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridan’s Ass and Schrödinger’s Cat.”
- Peacocke, Arthur. “Chance and Law in Irreversible Thermodynamics, Theoretical Biology, and Theology.”
- Peacocke, Arthur. “God’s Interaction with the World: The Implications of Deterministic “Chaos” and of Interconnected and Interdependent Complexity.”
- Polkinghorne, John. “The Metaphysics of Divine Action.”
- Stoeger, William R.. “Describing God’s Action in the World in Light of Scientific Knowledge of Reality.”
- Tracy, Thomas F. “Particular Providence and the God of the Gaps.”
- Wildman, Wesley J. and Robert John Russell. “Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction with Philosophical Reflections.”
Evolutionary and Molecular Biology
- Ayala, Francisco J. “The Evolution of Life: An Overview.”
- Ayala, Francisco J. “Darwin’s Devolution: Design Without Designer.”
- Barbour, Ian G. “Five Models of God and Evolution.”
- Birch, Charles. “Neo-Darwinism, Self-organization, and Divine Action in Evolution.”
- Cela-Conde, Camilo J. and Gisele Marty. “Beyond Biological Evolution: Mind, Morals, and Culture.”
- Cela-Conde, Camilo J. “The Hominid Evolutionary Journey: A Summary.”
- Chela-Flores, Julian. “The Phenomenon of the Eukaryotic Cell.”
- Clifford, Anne M. “Darwin’s Revolution in the Origin of Species: A Hermeneutical Study of the Movement form Natural Theology to Natural Selection.”
- Coyne, George V., S.J. “Evolution and the Human Person: The Pope in Dialogue.”
- Davies, Paul. “Teleology Without Teleology: Purpose through Emergent Complexity.”
- Drees, Willem B. “Evolutionary Naturalism and Religion.”
- Edwards, Denis. “Original Sin and Saving Grace in Evolutionary Context.”
- Ellis, George F. R. “The Thinking Underlying the New ‘Scientific’ World-views.”
- Haught, John F. “Darwin’s Gift to Theology.”
- Hefner, Philip. “Biocultural Evolution: A Clue to the Meaning of Nature.”
- Pope John Paul II. “Message to the Vatican Observatory Conference on Evolutionary and Molecular Biology.”
- Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Nonreducibility of Ethics to Biology.”
- Peacocke, Arthur. “Biological Evolution – A Positive Theological Appraisal.”
- Peters, Ted. “Playing God with Our Evolutionary Future.”
- Russell, Robert John. “Special Providence and Genetic Mutation: A New Defense of Theistic Evolution.”
- Stoeger, Willam R., S.J. “The Immanent Directionality of the Evolutionary Process, and its Relationship to Teleology.”
- Tracy, Thomas F. “Evolution, Divine Action, and the Problem of Evil.”
- Wildman, Wesley J. “Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine Action.”
Neuroscience and the Person
- Arbib, Michael A. “Towards a Neuroscience of the Person.”
- Arbib, Michael A. “Crusoe’s Brain: Of Solitude and Society.”
- Barbour, Ian. “Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Nature: Theological and Philosophical Reflections.”
- Brothers, Leslie A. “A Neuroscientific Perspective on Human Sociality.”
- Clayton, Philip, “Neuroscience, the Person, and God: An Emergentist Account.”
- Ellis, George F. R. “Intimations of Transcendence: Relations of the Mind to God.”
- Green, Joel B. “Restoring the Human Person: New Testament Voices for a Wholistic and Social Anthropology.”
- Hagoort, Peter “The Uniquely Human Capacity for Language Communication: From POPE to [po:p] in Half a Second.”
- Happel, Stephen “The Soul and Neuroscience: Possibilities for Divine Action.”
- Jeannerod, Marc. ”The Cognitive Way to Action.”
- Jeannerod, Marc “Are There Limits to the Naturalization of Mental States?”
- Kerr, Fergus. “The Modern Philosophy of Self in Recent Theology.”
- LeDoux, Joseph E. “Emotions: How I’ve Looked for Them in the Brain.”
- LeDoux, Joseph E. “Emotions: A View through the Brain.”
- Meyering, Theo C. “Mind Matters: Physicalism and the Autonomy of the Person.”
- Murphy, Nancey. “Supervenience and the Downward Efficacy of the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action.”
- Peacocke, Arthur. “The Sound of Sheer Silence: How Does God Communicate with Humanity?”
- Peters, Ted. “Resurrection of the Very Embodied Soul?”
- Stoeger, William R., S.J. “The Mind-Brain Problem, the Laws of Nature, and Constitutive Relationships.”
- Watts, Fraser. “Cognitive Neuroscience and Religious Consciousness.”
- Wildman, Wesley J. and Leslie A. Brothers. “A Neuropsychological-Semiotic Model of Religious Experiences.”
Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature
- Alston, W. “Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the Laws of Nature.”
- Davies, Paul C. W. “The Intelligibility of Nature.”
- Drees, Willem B. “A Case Against Temporal Critical Realism? Consequences of Quantum Cosmology for Theology.”
- Ellis, George F. R. and William R. Stoeger. “Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology.”
- Ellis, George F. R. “The Theology of the Anthropic Principle.”
- Grib, Andrej A. “Quantum Cosmology, the Role of the Observer, Quantum Logic.”
- Happel, Stephen. “Metaphors and Time Asymmetry: Cosmologies in Physics and Christian Meanings.”
- Heller, Michael. “On Theological Interpretations of Physical Creation Theories.”
- Isham, C.J. and J.C. Polkinghorne. “The Debate over the Block Universe.”
- Lucas, John R. “The Temporality of God.”
- Murphy, Nancey. “Evidence of Design in the Fine-Tuning of the Universe.”
- Peters, Ted. “The Trinity In and Beyond Time.”
- Polkinghorne, John. “The Laws of Nature and the Laws of Physics.”
- Russell, Robert John. “Finite Creation without a Beginning: The Doctrine of Creation in Relation to Big Bang and Quantum Cosmologies.”
- Stoeger, William R. “Contemporary Physics and the Ontological Status of the Laws of Nature.”
- Ward, Keith. “God as a Principle of Cosmological Explanation.”
Quantum Mechanics
- Berry, Michael. “Chaos and the Semiclassical Limit of Quantum Mechanics (Is the Moon There When Somebody Looks?)”
- Butterfield, Jeremy. “Some Worlds of Quantum Theory.”
- Chiao, Raymond Y. “Quantum Nonlocalities: Experimental Evidence.”
- Clarke, Chris. “The Histories Interpretation of Quantum Theory and the Problem of Human/Divine Action.”
- Clayton, Philip. “Tracing the Lines: Constraint and Freedom In the Movement from Quantum Physics to Theology.”
- Cushing, James T. “Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics: A “Free” Choice.”
- Ellis, George F.R. “Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic World.”
- Heller, Michael. “Generalizations: From Quantum Mechanics to God.”
- McMullin, Ernan. “Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy.”
- Polkinghorne, John. “Physical Process, Quantum Events, and Divine Agency.”
- Redhead, Michael. “The Tangled Story of Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics.”
- Russell, Robert John. “Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics: A Fresh Assessment.”
- Shimony, Abner. “The Reality of the Quantum World.”
- Stoeger, William R. “Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising from Quantum Theory.”
- Tracy, Thomas F. “Creation, Providence, and Quantum Chance.”
