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Price: $34.95 This book, which arose from a three-year consultation on eschatology held in
Princeton and Heidelberg, is an important new contribution to the currently
expanding and intensifying dialogue between science and theology. In The
End of the World
and the Ends of God: Science and Theology on Eschatology, John Polkinghorne
and Michael Welker effectively collaborate to assemble a fascinating collection
of
twenty-three essays by scientists, theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars
on the subject of eschatology (the ultimate significance and destiny of both
the universe and individual human beings) as seen through the perspective of
their particular disciplines. Scientists predict the end of time as a catastrophe
(entropy—the death of the universe), while theologians see human and
universal destiny as one of passage to something more meaningful. These essays
touch upon
such diverse issues as hope and the denial of death, time as moral space, eschatology
and the natural sciences, and eschatology in the Judeo/Christian biblical tradition.
The contributors seek a new approach in this volume. They agree that their
common topic is a realistic eschatology and that the discourse between science
and theology
should help us to explore grounds of hope and joy in the face of physical
death and the threat posed by a finite world and universe. Contributors to
this volume
include William Stoeger, Detlef Linke, Fraser Watts, Larry Bouchard, William
Schweiker, Janet Soskice, Cristoph Schwobel, Walter Brueggemann, Patrick
D. Miller, Donald H. Juel, Hans Weder, Gerhard Sauter, Kathryn Tanner, Jurgen
Moltmann,
and Miroslav Volf. Book
of Distinction: 2004 Michael Welker, Ph.D., is Chair for Systematic Theology at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Welker was a professor at the universities of Tubingen
and Munster before he took his Chair position in 1991. Since 1996, he has also
been the director of the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universitat
Heidelberg, a center for international and interdisciplinary research. He received
a D. Theol.
(Tübingen) and a D. Phil. (Heidelberg). Dr. Welker was a guest professor
in North America (McMaster University, Princeton Theological Seminary and Harvard
Divinity School) and a senior consultant scholar at the Center of Theological
Inquiry, Princeton. He is the author of about 180 articles in academic books
and journals and the author or (co-)editor of 25 books. Rev. John C. Polkinghorne,
Ph.D., is President Emeritus of Queen’s College, Cambridge, is a member
of the Church of England Doctrine Committee and General Synod. Former Professor
of Applied Physics at Cambridge, he has published many papers on theoretical
elementary particle physics. Among his science and religion books are Science
and Creation and Reason and Reality. Rev. Polkinghorne was the recipient of
the 2002 Templeton Prize. |
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