Kenosis and Nature
With living things, questions of level mingle with questions of identity, which mingle with questions of persisting and perishing.
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Creation and Kenotic Love: A Descriptive and Critical Review
A review of “The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis,” edited by John Polkinghorne.
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Of Meontic Freedom & Panexperientialism
An Interview with David Ray Griffin.
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Figuring the Odds in God’s Casino—Pascal Revisited
“If you’re living like there’s no God,” a popular bumper sticker warns, “you’d better be right.” A fringe of flames at the sticker’s base provides a clue to the hellish price of error. Whether consciously or not, this modern folk wisdom sums up “Pascal’s Wager,” the living legacy of Blaise Pascal, a brilliant 17th century…
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Puebla or “The Plumed Serpent of Science and Religion”
Metanexus: Views 2002.02.09 1790 words With respect to the relation between science and religion, there alreadyexists a movement, though still fragile, toward a subtle interchange. Wehave begun to talk to each other on levels more profound than before andwith greater openness toward the perspective of the other, aware of theother’s competencies, limitations, and most especially…
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Perceived Reality: Force
When one considers the variety of motions in the world one might wonder: what causes such variety? Why do some bodies remain unchanging in motion, altering neither speed nor direction, while others undergo changes now and again? The box can be moved by giving it a push, and the cart by pulling it. We affect…
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Perceived Reality: Motion
“Motion, motion, everywhere! Now here, now there, now to, now fro, Now up, now down, the world goeth so, And ever hath done and ever shall.” – John Gower The most ubiquitous aspect of perceived reality is movement. The tree branch is gently heaving at the soft touch of the breeze, the cat is running…
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Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 6
Metanexus: Views 2002.01.04 2428 words Technology may first be understood as ‘imitating nature’, doing thingswhich nature does as well. At some point, we move on to ‘improving nature’,doing some things better than they would be without us, claims Dutchtheologian Willem Drees. He then adds, ‘Better’ is, of course, anevaluation – and thus invites the question…
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Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 5
Metanexus: Views 2002.01.03 2679 words If we are the products of evolution, can we take positive initiatives, makethe right choices? Or are our choices fixed since days of old, and isfreedom nothing but an illusion? Libraries could be filled with books on’free will’. Here I want to indicate briefly why I hold that a meaningfulnotion…
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Creation: From Nothing Until Now, Part 4
Metanexus: Views 2001.12.28 3771 words What is theology? And what does theology have to say to us? Is it truly thescience of God, in the way that physics might be considered the science ofmaterial objects and their interactions or biology viewed as the science ofthe lifeworld or of living objects? What, then, would be the…