Albright Beginning With the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg:
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| About the Contributors | ||
| About the Cover Illustration | ||
| Introduction: Pannenberg’s Vision of Theology and Science | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Four Essays | 29 |
| Introduction to Part One | 31 | |
| 1 | Theological Questions to Scientists | 37 |
| 2 | Laying Theological Claim to Scientific Understandings | 51 |
| 3 | The Doctrine of the Spirit and the Task of a Theology of Nature | 65 |
| 4 | Spirit and Energy in the Phenomenology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 80 |
| Pt. 2 | The Structure of Pannenberg’s Thought | 91 |
| Introduction to Part Two | 93 | |
| 5 | The Role of Science in Pannenberg’s Theological Thinking | 97 |
| 6 | Self-Transcendence: The Human Spirit and the Holy Spirit | 116 |
| Pt. 3 | Physics, Cosmology, and the Omega Point | 147 |
| Introduction to Part Three | 149 | |
| 7 | The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg’s Questions to Scientists | 156 |
| 8 | Cosmology and Eschatology: The Implications of Tipler’s ‘Omega Point’ Theory to Pannenberg’s Theological Program | 195 |
| 9 | Contingency, Time, and the Theological Ambiguity of Science | 217 |
| Pt. 4 | Contingency, Field, and Self-Organizing Systems | 249 |
| Introduction to Part Four | 251 | |
| 10 | Toward an Evolutionary Ecology of Meaning | 256 |
| 11 | Clarity of the Part versus Meaning of the Whole | 289 |
| Pt. 5 | DNA as Icon | 303 |
| Introduction to Part Five | 305 | |
| 12 | Spirit, Method, and Content in Science and Religion: The Theological Perspective of a Geneticist | 309 |
| 13 | Behavioral Genetics, or What’s Missing from Theological Anthropology? | 341 |
| Pt. 6 | Methodology | 349 |
| Introduction to Part Six | 351 | |
| 14 | Truth and Commitment in Theology and Science: An Appraisal of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Perspective | 360 |
| 15 | To Expand and Deepen the Provisional: An Inquiry into Pannenberg’s Anthropology in Theological Perspective | 378 |
| 16 | From Methodology to Metaphysics: The Problem of Control in the Science-Theology Dialogue | 396 |
| 17 | A Lakatosian Reconstruction of Pannenberg’s Program: Responses to Sponheim, van Huyssteen, and Eaves | 409 |
| Pt. 7 | Pannenberg’s Response | 423 |
| Introduction to Part Seven | 425 | |
| 18 | Theological Appropriation of Scientific Understandings: Response to Hefner, Wicken, Eaves, and Tipler | 427 |
| Index | 445 |