RT Article
T1 Some Correlations Between Methods of Knowing and Theological Concepts in Arthur Peacocke's Personalistic Panentheism and Nonpersonal Naturalistic Theism
JF Zygon
VO 43
IS 1
SP 19
OP 26
A1 Peters, Karl E.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827959797
AB Abstract. Differences in methods of knowing correlate with differences in concepts about what is known. This is an underlying issue in science and religion. It is seen, first, in Arthur Peacocke's reasoning about God as transcendent and personal, is based on an assumption of correlative thinking that like causes like. This contrasts with a notion of causation in empirical science, which explains the emergence of new phenomena as originating from temporally prior phenomena quite unlike that which emerges. The scientific understanding of causation is compatible with a naturalistic theism that holds a nonpersonal model of God as the creative process. However, focusing on the immanence of God, there is a second correlation between methods of knowing and concepts of God. Classical empiricism, used by science, correlates with God understood nonpersonally as the creative process. Radical empiricism, in which feelings and not only sense perceptions have cognitive import, opens up the possibility that one can experience Peacocke's personal, panentheistic God as pattern-forming influence. I illustrate this second method-concept correlation with a personal experience.
K1 Transcendence
K1 religious naturalism
K1 radical empiricism
K1 Arthur Peacocke
K1 Panentheism
K1 naturalistic theism
K1 Immanence
K1 God
K1 Epistemology
K1 Empiricism
K1 empirical theism
K1 classical empiricism
K1 Causation
K1 Analogia Entis
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00895.x