Science and the spirit : a Pentecostal engagement with the sciences / edited by James K. A. Smith and Amos Yong
Material type: TextBloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, ©2010Description: 217 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780253222275
- BL 240.3 Sci26 2010
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Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Science and the Spirit - Questions and Possibilities in the Pentecostal Engagement with Science / James K. A. Smith and Amos Yong
PART ONE • WHAT HATH AZUSA STREET TO DO WITH MIT? THE BIG QUESTIONS
1. What Have the Galapagos to Do with Jerusalem? Scientific Knowledge in Theological Context / Telford Work
2. Is There Room for Surprise in the Natural World? Naturalism, the Supernatural, and Pentecostal Spirituality / James K. A. Smith
3. How Does God Do What God Does? Pentecostal-Charismatic Perspectives on Divine Action in Dialogue with Modern Science / Amos Yong
PART TWO • THE SPIRIT OF MATTER: QUESTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
4. Does God Have a Place in the Physical Universe? Physics and the Quest for the Holy Spirit / Wolfgang Vondey
5. Does the Spirit Create through Evolutionary Processes? Pentecostals and Biological Evolution / Steve Badger and Mike Tenneson
6. Can Religious Experience Be Reduced to Brain Activity? The Place and Significance of Pentecostal Narrative / Frederick L. Ware
7. Serotonin and Spirit: Can There Be a Holistic Pentecostal Approach to Mental Illness? / Donald F. Calbreath
PART THREE • THE HUMAN SPIRIT: QUESTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES
8. Can Social Scientists Dance? Participating in Science) Spirit, and Social Reconstruction as an Anthropologist and Afropentecostal / Craig Scandrett-Leatherman
9. Is Integrating Spirit and Sociology Possible? A Postmodern Research Odyssey / Margaret M. Polorna
10. Is There Room for the Spirit in a World Dominated by Technology? Pentecostals and the Technological World / Dennis W Cheek
List of Contributors
Index
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