Is theology a science? the nature of the scientific enterprise in the scientific theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance and the anarchic epistemology of Paul Feyerabend /

Is theology a science? the nature of the scientific enterprise in the scientific theology of Thomas Forsyth Torrance and the anarchic epistemology of Paul Feyerabend /

When Barth and Scholz clashed over the scientific status of theology, Barth drew the conclusion that if natural science was to be drawn up in such positivistic terms, theology had much to lose and little to gain by engagement with it. A generation later Barth's translator and pupil Thomas Torra...

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Main Author: Munchin, David.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Studies in Systematic Theology 7.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223110.

Subjects:

Feyerabend, Paul, > 1924-1994.
Torrance, Thomas F. > (Thomas Forsyth), > 1913-2007.
Religion and science.
Science > Philosophy.
Theology > Methodology.

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Call Number: BL240.3 .M85 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter One. Introduction: Context And History /
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  • Chapter Two. Introducing The Dialogue Partners: Torrance And Feyerabend /
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  • Chapter Three. Torrance: Theology Cohabiting With Natural Science /
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  • Chapter Four. Torrance's Proposal - A New Objectivity /
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  • Chapter Five. Feyerabend's Challenge - 'Knowledge Without Foundations' /
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  • Chapter Six. Two Excurses /
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  • Chapter Seven. Coherence And Language /
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  • Chapter Eight. From Foundations To Spirals /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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