Creationism is no longer tenable, scientifically, although many still cling to it. This kind of religious 'literalism' can be found in geo-political examples of fundamentalism and particularly in violent, Islamic extremism. If creationism is dead, what do religious people think they mean when they say 'we believe in God, as Creator or Source' in a universe that 'makes itself?' What caused the Big Bang and the Big Birth? How could God be involved, let alone embedded, in natural processes of cosmological and evolutionary ...
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Creationism is no longer tenable, scientifically, although many still cling to it. This kind of religious 'literalism' can be found in geo-political examples of fundamentalism and particularly in violent, Islamic extremism. If creationism is dead, what do religious people think they mean when they say 'we believe in God, as Creator or Source' in a universe that 'makes itself?' What caused the Big Bang and the Big Birth? How could God be involved, let alone embedded, in natural processes of cosmological and evolutionary change, if any notion of divine 'intervention' undermines the vital autonomy of these processes? This trilogy offers a new way of understanding 'Creator' and 'Creation' alongside the science of cosmology, physics, quantum and evolution. This book (LE2) uses the surprising insights of some early, mystical theologians about Love, and Energy, to unveil how such a belief is possible in the worldviews of the New Testament, Origen, Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, the Cappadocians, more recent process theologians and others who have so radically changed our spiritual understanding of energy as the 'living force, ' kenotically present in the processes of creation. It also asks - if the world 'makes itself' what are the physical, political and personal dilemmas of autonomy and freedom? Love's Energy explores particular 'pattern paradoxes' of certainty and uncertainty, ontology and epistemology, order and chance in the 'indeterminacy' present in the fascinating story of science and theology. It provides the general and more specialist reader with an opportunity to make new connections between these formative parts of our intellectual map making and assumptions about the world. In an age when religious dogmatism is intolerant and dangerous, it offers an exciting new alternative for people of all faiths - the belief that Love's Energy is the source of cosmological and evolutionary creativity and embedded in natural processes and relationships.
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