Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action
Artificial Intelligence
Astronomy
Biblical Studies
Chaos Theory
- Berry, Michael.
“Chaos and the Semiclassical Limit of Quantum
Mechanics (Is the Moon There When Somebody Looks?)"
- Heller, Michael.
“Chaos, Probability, and the Comprehensibility of
the World.”
- 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.”
- Ellis, George
F.R. “Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic
World."
- 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.”
- Isham, C.J. and
J.C. Polkinghorne. “The Debate over the Block
Universe."
- 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 Laws of Nature and the Laws of
Physics."
- 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.”
Critical Realism
Emergence
Eschatology
Evolutionary Theory
- Ayala, Francisco
J. “Darwin’s Devolution: Design Without
Designer.”
- Ayala, Francisco
J. “The Evolution of Life: An Overview.”
- 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."
- Ward, Keith.
“God as a Principle of Cosmological
Explanation."
- Wildman, Wesley
J. “Evaluating the Teleological Argument for Divine
Action."
Free Will
- Alston,
W. “Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the Laws of
Nature.”
- Crutchfield,
James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, and Robert
S. Shaw. “Chaos.”
- Cushing, James T.
“Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Quantum
Mechanics: A “Free” Choice."
- Ellis, George F.
R. “The Theology of the Anthropic Principle."
- Murphy, Nancey.
“Evidence of Design in the Fine-Tuning of the
Universe."
- Ward, Keith.
“God as a Principle of Cosmological
Explanation."
Natural Theology
Neuroscience
- Arbib, Michael
A. “Crusoe’s Brain: Of Solitude and
Society."
- Arbib, Michael A.
“Towards a Neuroscience of the Person."
- 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
“Are There Limits to the Naturalization of Mental
States?"
- Jeannerod, Marc.
”The Cognitive Way to Action."
- 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."
Process Theology
Quantum Theory
- Alston,
W. “Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the Laws of
Nature.”
- 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."
- Crutchfield,
James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard, and Robert
S. Shaw. “Chaos.”
- Cushing, James T.
“Determinism Versus Indeterminism in Quantum
Mechanics: A “Free” Choice."
- 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. “Intimations of Transcendence: Relations of the
Mind to God."
- Ellis, George F.
R. and William R. Stoeger. “Introduction to General
Relativity and Cosmology."
- Ellis, George
F.R. “Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic
World."
- 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.
“Generalizations: From Quantum Mechanics to
God."
- Heller, Michael.
“On Theological Interpretations of Physical Creation
Theories."
- Isham, C.J. and
J.C. Polkinghorne. “The Debate over the Block
Universe."
- Kuppers,
Bernd-Olaf. “Understanding Complexity.”
- Lucas, John R.
“The Temporality of God."
- McMullin, Ernan.
“Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy."
- Murphy, Nancey.
“Divine Action in the Natural Order: Buridan’s
Ass and Schrödinger’s Cat.”
- Murphy, Nancey.
“Evidence of Design in the Fine-Tuning of the
Universe."
- Peacocke,
Arthur. “God’s Interaction with the World: The
Implications of Deterministic “Chaos” and of
Interconnected and Interdependent Complexity.”
- Peters, Ted.
“The Trinity In and Beyond Time."
- Polkinghorne,
John. “The Laws of Nature and the Laws of
Physics."
- Polkinghorne,
John. “Physical Process, Quantum Events, and Divine
Agency."
- Russell, Robert
John. “Divine Action and Quantum Mechanics: A Fresh
Assessment."
- Russell, Robert
John. “Finite Creation without a Beginning: The
Doctrine of Creation in Relation to Big Bang and Quantum
Cosmologies."
- Russell, Robert
John. “Special Providence and Genetic Mutation: A
New Defense of Theistic Evolution."
- Shimony, Abner.
“The Reality of the Quantum World."
- Stoeger, William
R. “Contemporary Physics and the Ontological Status
of the Laws of Nature."
- Stoeger, William
R. “Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising
from Quantum Theory."
- Tracy, Thomas F.
“Creation, Providence, and Quantum Chance."
- Ward, Keith.
“God as a Principle of Cosmological
Explanation."
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