Sarah Coakley on Evolution, Cooperation, and God
Sarah Coakley has just given the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen. The theme was "Evolution, Cooperation, and God."
I have not yet read or watched the lectures but they look excellent!
You can read them or watch them on this link.
It seems to me that theologians are starting to move into much more constructive and interesting engagements with the sciences.
Past discussions often fell between:
(1) those theologians who were creationists and took a rejectionist approach to mainstream science, and
(2) theistic evolutionists who imagined that science was a philosophically neutral activity and that theologians simply accept whatever scientists say and fit God-talk around that. (Obviously that is a very simplistic summary.)
But there is a new generation of theologians who are happy to reject creationism and yet very happy to engage in critical interaction with the sciences.
Sarah Coakley is one of those theologians.
I have not yet read or watched the lectures but they look excellent!
You can read them or watch them on this link.
It seems to me that theologians are starting to move into much more constructive and interesting engagements with the sciences.
Past discussions often fell between:
(1) those theologians who were creationists and took a rejectionist approach to mainstream science, and
(2) theistic evolutionists who imagined that science was a philosophically neutral activity and that theologians simply accept whatever scientists say and fit God-talk around that. (Obviously that is a very simplistic summary.)
But there is a new generation of theologians who are happy to reject creationism and yet very happy to engage in critical interaction with the sciences.
Sarah Coakley is one of those theologians.
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