The contents of Physics, Philosophy, and Theology are
wide-ranging but unified. The first part treats historical and
contemporary relations in science and religion, biblical theology on
creation, Newton’s thought and the roots of modern atheism, the search
for a natural theology, and the possible ways in which science and
theology confront one another. In the second section the ways of knowing
peculiar to the various disciplines and the implications for
philosophical realism are investigated. In the last section a very
creative and imaginative approach is taken to some of the most prominent
areas of contemporary physics and cosmology in exploring whether they
are open to revealing to us something of the reality of God and the
relationshiop of God to the Universe and to us as we search for meaning
within that Universe.
Contributors include: John Paul II, Ian Barbour, Michael Buckley,
S.J., W. Norris Clarke, S.J., Richard Clifford, S.J., Michael Heller,
Ernan McMullin, Olaf Pedersen, Mary Hesse, Nicholas Lash, Janet Martin
Soskice, C.J. Isham, John Leslie, Sallie McFague, Ted Peters, John
Polkinghorne, Robert John Russell, William Stoeger, S.J., and Frank
Tipler.
