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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.
Title:
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.
Author:
Munchin, David.
ISBN:
9789004194601
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Studies in Systematic Theology ; v.7

Studies in Systematic Theology
Contents:
Is Theology a Science? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction: Context and History -- Contextual Background on the Scientific Status of Theology until Torrance -- Barth and Natural Science -- Chapter Two Introducing the Dialogue Partners: Torrance and Feyerabend -- Thomas Forsyth Torrance -- Paul Feyerabend -- Feyerabend as Critical Friend to Torrance -- Chapter Three Torrance: Theology Cohabiting with Natural Science -- The Theory of General Relativity -- Quantum Physics -- Gödel's Theorem -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Torrance's Proposal - A New Objectivity -- A New Objectivity -- Similarities and Differences -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Feyerabend's Challenge - 'Knowledge without Foundations' -- Theory and Observation: Counter-Inductivism, Theoretical Pluralism and the Rejection of Empirical Cumulativism -- The Incommensurability Thesis -- Against Method and Farewell to Reason -- Destination Relativism -- Voluntarism -- Chapter Six Two Excurses -- Hermeneutics and Science -- Realism -- Chapter Seven Coherence and Language -- Epistemic Coherence and Correspondence -- Religious and Scientific Language -- Coherence in Theology and Scripture - Witnesses to a Single Truth? -- Chapter Eight From Foundations to Spirals -- Enlightenment Foundationalism and Reductionism -- Progressive Foundationalism and Ordered Strata -- Fluid Axioms -- Evident to the Senses - The Wrong Foundations -- Spirals and Iterations - The Search for a New Metaphor of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book analyses whether the scientific epistemology of Torrance's Theological Science project is robust enough to withstand the anarchic and distinctively post-modern challenge of Paul Feyerabend: 'The worst enemy of science'.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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