Peter N Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter N Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter N |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6665-2859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Reading Some New World through Naturalistic or Religious Eyes
Open access – no commercial reuse
Non‐contrastive transcendence as gift and challenge to science and religion
This article suggests that the nature of transcendence represents a promising topic for future engagement between revision‐minded theologians in the field of science and religion and tradition‐oriented ones. It does so by drawing on Kathryn Tanner's account of non‐contrastive transcendence within the history of Christian theology to illuminate the thinking of contemporary science and religion pioneer Arthur Peacocke. Peacocke thought modern scien…
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
From Soul Science to Spiritual Information
John Templeton's philanthropic organisations provide funding for research at the frontiers of the natural and human sciences. That funding is consistent with Templeton's longstanding personal interest in science. This article examines why Templeton, a world-renowned investor, was so interested in science. Templeton's writings indicate that science mattered primarily because of its profound religious and theological potential. By promoting a varie…
The Theological Significance of the History of Science
This article examines the rationale behind philanthropist John Templeton’s investment in the field of science and religion. His support stems in part from the conviction that historical developments in science are finally leading us to the right understanding of God’s relationship to the created order. The older, mechanical picture of nature that science purportedly gave us implies that God is distant from nature, whereas more recent discoveries …
Providence in Early Modern England
The doctrine of providence traditionally has shaped how Christians view nature. In early modern English Protestant thought the doctrine enveloped natural causality and deployed it in a variety of ways, with God’s government of the created order often believed to occur through the operation of natural causes. To grasp how natural causality was perceived at the time we must therefore appreciate the broader providential context within which naturall…
Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who – like the author of this book – recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of …
Providence and the Affective Benefits of Natural Causality
Stories of science as an engine of secularization generally assume that scientific ideas and traditional religion are incompatible with each other, such that the advance of the former necessarily means the retreat of the latter. In certain versions of these stories, fear heightens the tension in the plot by accounting for why religion exists in the first place. This article looks at a range of early modern English thinkers, including Walter Charl…
KatherineCalloway
The Theological Significance of the History of Science
This article examines the rationale behind philanthropist John Templeton’s investment in the field of science and religion. His support stems in part from the conviction that historical developments in science are finally leading us to the right understanding of God’s relationship to the created order. The older, mechanical picture of nature that science purportedly gave us implies that God is distant from nature, whereas more recent discoveries …
KatherineCalloway
Providence in Early Modern England
The doctrine of providence traditionally has shaped how Christians view nature. In early modern English Protestant thought the doctrine enveloped natural causality and deployed it in a variety of ways, with God’s government of the created order often believed to occur through the operation of natural causes. To grasp how natural causality was perceived at the time we must therefore appreciate the broader providential context within which naturall…
Naturalism in the Christian Imagination
Science today is often seen as providing the definitive frame of reference for understanding what goes on in nature. Furthermore, the history of science has frequently been portrayed as the story of steady progress in overturning religious explanation in favour of scientific truth. This narrative has been challenged by those who – like the author of this book – recognise that a naturalistic way of looking at the world, which lies at the heart of …
Providence and the Affective Benefits of Natural Causality
Stories of science as an engine of secularization generally assume that scientific ideas and traditional religion are incompatible with each other, such that the advance of the former necessarily means the retreat of the latter. In certain versions of these stories, fear heightens the tension in the plot by accounting for why religion exists in the first place. This article looks at a range of early modern English thinkers, including Walter Charl…
From Soul Science to Spiritual Information
John Templeton's philanthropic organisations provide funding for research at the frontiers of the natural and human sciences. That funding is consistent with Templeton's longstanding personal interest in science. This article examines why Templeton, a world-renowned investor, was so interested in science. Templeton's writings indicate that science mattered primarily because of its profound religious and theological potential. By promoting a varie…
The Theological Significance of the History of Science
This article examines the rationale behind philanthropist John Templeton’s investment in the field of science and religion. His support stems in part from the conviction that historical developments in science are finally leading us to the right understanding of God’s relationship to the created order. The older, mechanical picture of nature that science purportedly gave us implies that God is distant from nature, whereas more recent discoveries …
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition
Introduction
Reading Some New World through Naturalistic or Religious Eyes
Open access – no commercial reuse
Non‐contrastive transcendence as gift and challenge to science and religion
This article suggests that the nature of transcendence represents a promising topic for future engagement between revision‐minded theologians in the field of science and religion and tradition‐oriented ones. It does so by drawing on Kathryn Tanner's account of non‐contrastive transcendence within the history of Christian theology to illuminate the thinking of contemporary science and religion pioneer Arthur Peacocke. Peacocke thought modern scien…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Evolution and Science Education (4 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Causality (physics) (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (3 works)