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Issues in science and theology : what is life? / Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Antje Jackelén, Knut-Willy Sæther editors.

Contributor(s): Evers, Dirk, 1962- [editor.] | Fuller, Michael, 1963- [editor.] | Jackele¿¿n, Antje [editor.] | S©Œther, Knut-Willy [editor.] | European Conference on Science and Theology (4th : 2012 : Tartu, Estonia)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Issues in science and religion: Publisher: Cham : Springer, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xi, 207 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319174068; 3319174061Subject(s): Religion and science -- Congresses | Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses | Life -- Congresses | Life -- Religious aspects -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Local Note: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.Differentiable Local Note:
Contents:
From physics to biology -- From physics to semiotics / Stuart Kauffman -- Is life essentially semiosis? / Peter P. Kirschenmann -- Life in the open air / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Reflections on life: lessons from evolutionary biology, with insights from Sergius Bulgakov / Gayle E. Woloschak -- Life in terms of nano-biotechnologies / Thierry Magnin and Fabien Revol -- Concepts of life in philosophy, theology and ethics -- Life: an ill-defined relationship / Antje Jackelén -- Emergence, realism and the good life / Mikael Leidenhag -- Dust of the ground and breath of life (Gen 2:7): the notion of 'life' in ancient Israel and emergence theory / Klaus Nürnberger -- The openness of life: personhood and faith: an infinitizer approach / W. Richard Bowen -- Respect for life in the age of science / Alfred Kracher -- The hermeneutics of life -- Life and consciousness: is there a biological foundation for consciousness? / Maria-Magdalena Weker -- "To research living beings, one has to participate in life": Viktor von Weizäcker's legacy / Andreas Losch -- Signs, science, and religion: a biosemiotic mediation / Gerald Ostdiek -- Persons knowing life: theological possibilities in Michael Polanyi's philosophy / Vincent M. Smiles -- Life beyond critical realism: developing van Huyssteen's transversal approach to the science/theology dialogue / Pat Bennett.

AAAS Science for Seminaries program.

Part I. From physics to biology -- From physics to semiotics / Stuart Kauffman -- Is life essentially semiosis? / Peter P. Kirschenmann -- Life in the open air / Bronislaw Szerszynski -- Reflections on life: lessons from evolutionary biology, with insights from Sergius Bulgakov / Gayle E. Woloschak -- Life in terms of nano-biotechnologies / Thierry Magnin and Fabien Revol -- Part II. Concepts of life in philosophy, theology and ethics -- Life: an ill-defined relationship / Antje Jackelén -- Emergence, realism and the good life / Mikael Leidenhag -- Dust of the ground and breath of life (Gen 2:7): the notion of 'life' in ancient Israel and emergence theory / Klaus Nürnberger -- The openness of life: personhood and faith: an infinitizer approach / W. Richard Bowen -- Respect for life in the age of science / Alfred Kracher -- Part III. The hermeneutics of life -- Life and consciousness: is there a biological foundation for consciousness? / Maria-Magdalena Weker -- "To research living beings, one has to participate in life": Viktor von Weizäcker's legacy / Andreas Losch -- Signs, science, and religion: a biosemiotic mediation / Gerald Ostdiek -- Persons knowing life: theological possibilities in Michael Polanyi's philosophy / Vincent M. Smiles -- Life beyond critical realism: developing van Huyssteen's transversal approach to the science/theology dialogue / Pat Bennett.

From 24 to 29 April 2012, ESSSAT (European Conference on Science and Theology) arranged the Fourteenth European Conference on Science and Theology (ECST XIV) in Tartu, Estonia.--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) grant.

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