Simon Oliver

Philosophy, God and Motion

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Produktbeschreibung

The text argues that there may be an authentically theological, as well as a natural scientific understanding of motion. This volume will prove a major contribution to theology, the history of Christian thought and to the growing field of science and religion.

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This book examines the concept of motion in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Newton among others, and offers an authentically theological, as well as a natural scientific understanding of motion, particularly in relation to God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415360456
• ISBN-10: 0415360455
• Artikelnr.: 21386812

Autorenporträt

Simon Oliver is Lecturer in Theology at University of Wales, Lampeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part one: Plato's Timaeus and the Soul's Motion of Knowing
1. The Nature of the Cosmos 2. Reason, Necessity and the Power of
Rhetorical Persuasion 3. The Pedagogy and Ethics of Cosmology Part two:
Aristotle: Ecstasy and intensifying motion 1. The Physics and Nature's
Motion 2. Ecstasy and Intensification 3. The Ethics of Motion: Place, limit
and God Part three: Light, Motion and Scientia Experimentalis 1. Robert
Grosseteste: The science of light and the light of truth 2. The
Experimentum 3. Roger Bacon: Truth and experiment Part four: St Thomas
Aquinas: The God of motion 1. At the Limits of Aristotelian Physics 2.
Motion and God 3. Virtue, Grace and Motion 4. Christ, the Eucharist and
Motion Part five: The Isolation of Physics 1. Avicenna on Metaphysics and
Physics 2. The Theory of Impetus and the Quantification of Motion Part six:
Newton: God without motion 1. The Theological Context of Newtonian Motion
2. Motion in the Principia 3. The Absolute Space, Christ and Motion 4. The
Fate of Mechanistic Motion Conclusion.