Science and Wisdom
Overview
Science and Wisdom offers a careful theological reading of our contemporary scientific worldview and directly addresses the related cultural dilemmas. Jürgen Moltmann begins by analyzing the identification of science with the modern spirit and the religious assumptions that inform Western science. He affirms the positive side of scientific advancement, sees the present crisis clearly, and looks for wisdom that can guide our scientific and religious future. The heart of Moltmann’s work is a theological understanding and assessment of contemporary cosmology. Core chapters look at creation as an open system, the self-emptying or kenosis of God in the history of the universe, eschatology, the problems of time and eternity, and the idea of God and space. In the final chapters he addresses specific questions in bioethics, historical conflicts between religion and science, and cosmology in a world religious context.
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Key Features
- Addresses the related cultural dilemmas of a contemporary scientific worldview
- Analyzes the identification of science with the modern spirit
Contents
- Theology in the World of the Modern Sciences
- Theologians and Scientists on the Way to Wisdom
- Creation as an Open System
- God’s Self-Restriction and the History of the Universe
- Eschatological Perspectives on the Future of the Universe
- What is Time and How Do We Experience It?
- The Origin and Completion of Time in the Primordial and in the Eschatological Moment
- God and Space
- Humane Ethics and the Ethos of Biomedical Progress
- Science and Wisdom
- ‘From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe’: The Case of Giordano Bruno
- TAO—The Chinesee Mystery of the World: Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching Read with Western Eyes
Product Details
- Title: Science and Wisdom
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2003
- Pages: 240
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
- Topic: Worldview
About Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann studied Christian theology in England and, after his return to Germany, in Göttingen. He served as a pastor from 1952 to1958 in Bremen. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1994. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope (1967), The Crucified God (1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981), The Spirit of Life (1994), and The Coming of God (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in 2000, all published by Fortress Press.
Top Highlights
“This means, not least, that all open systems point beyond themselves to the sphere of what they can be, and must be read theologically as real, or true, symbols of that future in which they are in God and God is in them, when they will participate unhindered in God’s indwelling fullness of possibility without being destroyed by it, and will become that for which God has destined them. The goal of God’s kenosis in the creation and preservation of the world is that future which we trace out with the symbols of the kingdom of God and the new creation, or ‘world without end’.” (Page 67)
“So kenosis is not a self-limitation and self-renunciation on God’s part; it is the self-realization in time of the eternal self-surrender of the Son to the Father in the trinitarian life of God.” (Page 57)
“A retreat into the inwardness of the human heart leads faith into a ghetto in which it spoils and decays.” (Page 5)
“The future, new eternal world is therefore to be the new creation of this world we know” (Page 81)
“God is a spacious God, an inviting, ceding, delivering and finally indwellable God” (Page 117)
- Title: Science and Wisdom
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Religion and science
- Resource ID: LLS:SCNCWISDMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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