Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning / / Nancey Murphy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Murphy, Nancey,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 10 graphs

In this timely and provocative book, Nancey Murphy sets out to dispel skepticism regarding Christian belief. She argues for the rationality of Christian belief by showing that theological reasoning is similar to scientific reasoning as described by contemporary philosophy of science. Murphy draws on new historicist accounts of science, particularly that of lmre Lakatos. According to Lakatos, scientists work within a "research program" consisting of a fixed core theory and a series of changing auxiliary hypotheses that allow for prediction and explanation of novel facts: Murphy argues that strikingly similar patterns of reasoning can be used to justify theological assertions. She provides an original characterization of theological data and explores the consequences for theology and philosophy of religion of adopting such an approach.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Problem-Theological Method in the Age of Probable Reasoning -- 2. The Quest for Theological Method-Pannenberg versus Hume -- 3. Probable Reasoning Come of Age-Philosophy of Science -- 4. The Modernists-Testing the Method -- 5. Data for Theology -- 6. Scientific Theology -- Index