Beschreibung:
Rodney Holder was Course Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge, UK, before retiring in 2013, and is a Fellow Commoner of St Edmund¿s College, Cambridge. He has published widely in the fields of science and religion and natural theology including the book Big Bang, Big God: A Universe Designed for Life? (2013) and articles in peer reviewed journals such as The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Theology and Science, and Philosophia Christi.
This book offers a rationale for a new `ramified natural theology¿ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible.
1 Theology as a Scientific Discipline: The Place of Natural Theology and Ramified Natural Theology; 2 Reason and Religion: The Rôle of Natural Theology; 3 Natural Theology and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological and Design Arguments; 4 Moving on from Natural Theology: Why We Need Ramified Natural Theology; 5 Pascal¿s Pensées and Butler¿s Analogy: Foreshadowing Ramified Natural Theology; 6 The Rationality of Belief in Miracles; 7 Ramified Natural Theology and Evidence for Christian Claims about Christ: Jesus¿ Miracles; 8 Jesus and Prophecy; 9 Ramified Natural Theology in Action: Outline of the Argument for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; 10 On the Third Day he Rose Again: Bayesian Methodologies Applied to the Resurrection of Jesus; 11 Towards a Fuller Picture: The Fruits of Ramified Natural Theology; Bibliography