The emergence of spirit: From complexity to anthropology to theology

Theology and Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-307

  Clayton, Philip ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergence; Metaphysics; Naturalism; Personhood; Robert Boyle; Theology of nature

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249159807     PISSN: 14746700     EISSN: 14746719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14746700600953454     Document Type: Article

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3. Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis, eds., The Works of Robert Boyle, vols. 1-7 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999)
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5. Jan Wojcik: ''Clearly, Boyle believed that there are mysteries in the realm of knowledge of the natural world, just as there are mysteries in the spiritual realm, and his views concerning the proper goals of the new natural philosophy were influenced by this belief. Although the phenomena themselves might be incomprehensible, inexplicable, or even at times apparently contradictory, the goal of the natural philosopher, as Boyle saw it, was to provide intelligible and consistent explications of the phenomena of nature. In other words, Boyle thought that it was the task of the natural philosopher to devise hypotheses by means of which the phenomena could be understood in terms of natural processes'' (Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997], 161-162).
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21. Michael J. Behe, ''Letter to the Boston Review,'' http://www.arn.org/docs/behe/mb_brrespbr.htm, visited January 29, 2006.
22. Cf. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Boston: Free Press, 1996), chap. 4.
23. Philip Clayton, Mind and Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), chap. 4.
24. Samuel Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity, the Gifford Lectures for 1916-1918, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1920), vol. 2, 361-362, 364.
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