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Title: Theological and Natural Science by Thomas F. Torrance ISBN: 1-57910-790-7 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00

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Rating: 5
Summary: Scientific Theology from John Philoponus to J. Clerk Maxwell
Comment: Compatibility of Science and Theology:
An anonymous saying was iterated secretively since the time of Dr. W. Inge, popularly known as the Gloomy Dean, that read:
'A graduate student at Trinity..Computed the square of infinity.
But it gave him the fidgets.. To put down the digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.' (Anon.)
That was not the tradition in Late Antiquity Alexandria, the City of Mathematics, were a heroic figure, John Philoponus, a sixth century scietheologian astonishingly anticipated Clerk Maxwellian break through in science, while steadfastly defending the genuine Orthodox Christology of Athanasius, Cyril, and his own colleague Severus of Antioch.

Cambridge philosophic Scientists:
In the early 1930s, a group of Cambridge scientists, led by Sir Arthur Eddington, exploring the depth of 20th century physics, came to a conclusive world view that the staff of the Cosmos is a mathematical 'mind-stuff.' One of them, Sir James Jeans argued that, "If the universe is a universe of thought, then its creation must be an act of thought." Dr. David Forster suggests that the void is God's mental space, supported by Einstein's matter-tensor, giving mathematics a mass-energy substance of: 'The shaping of the void.'
Eddington, Jeans and Whitehead came to the same conclusions on the 'Mathematical Cosmic Mind,' through different approaches of thought. My own unqualified assumption, that the launchiong of T.Torrance TheoLogos move that broke 'officially' in Edinburgh at its fourth centennial inaugration of the great Northern Scottish thought Castle, where J. Clerk Maxwell's mathemagical genius in his epoch making work on the electromagnetic field was published has started a huge centennial wave of authentic reality that swept the anathemas off the 'toil lover' John, setting his rational soul free.

Torrance Theological Science:
In nine lucent addresses on the interrelation between Christian theology and natural science, that linked the genius thought of J. Clerk Maxwell and a remarkable anticipation of his medieval predessesor who caused the scientific tension to erupt a millenia later into revolution as per Kuhn's terminology, Prof. Torrance masterfully gives us the most compelling 'double edged knowledge' that leaves you in awe. His engaging preface, on the subject lectures, is so personal that I thought he was telling me his story, meeting with my heroic toil lover, the Alexandrine sophi-Scientogist.
T.T. introduced me anew to many thinkers I thought I really knew!
His theological pilgrimage interfacing Cyril's Orthodox Christology is a remedy for the Orientals' abuse by Aristotelian Byzantines, and a patristic encounter with St. Basil's "De Opificio Mundi' through the Neoplatonist's commentary.

Einstein & God:
T.T. starts his case of unity of reality, science and theology, by a tour in Albert's noia, the center of perception of Divine Wisdom. His exposition understandably includes a curved space universe, a new mathesis but also Spinoza and Freud. Einstein later claim that "Only an Ox eats stritly kosher", is a statement that insinuates he read "Moses and monotheism, but sure he conversed with M. Buber, about his faith. In chapter eight;Michael Polanyi and the Christian faith, his personal report is so touching that I felt for the first time his multi talented and genuinely personal Christianity. T.T. was born to missionary parents, served as moderator of the assembly of the Church of Scotland, and converted John Emory McKenna from a Princeton physicist to a Philoponoi Christologist, John's theognostic language moved from Hebrew to Syriac, a big price for a unique encounter of Christ's Wisdom in the Grammarian.

Thanks JEM for advising me to review this theognostically metanoic, an inner thought changing insight for the Theo-minded.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Be prepared to enter into a deeper and more meaningful understanding and relationship with God. Professor Torence lends great insight into the deep things of God. His insight into the nature of scientific activity and the nature of truth are highly commendable. Though it will take some time to ponder the wealth of information found in this book it's well worth it to the patient and willing.