Is the first work in 25 years to deal specifically with the concept of creation order
Brings together philosophers, theologians, physicists, biologists, and social scientists
Explicitly discusses the relation of all contributions to reformational philosophy

Autorentext

Gerrit Glas MD PhD is psychiatrist and philosopher and holds the Dooyeweerd Chair for Christian philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main interests are at the interfaces between psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics and society. In 1993 he won the Van Helsdingen award for philosophy and psychiatry. He is editor-in-chief of Philosophia Reformata and a member of the board of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and the Big Questions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Jeroen de Ridder PhD is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on social epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. In 2010, he was awarded a Veni research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a project on the epistemic effects of the commercialization of science. In 2015, he received a Vidi research grant from NWO for a project on the epistemology of liberal democracy. Heis managing editor of Philosophia Reformata and a member of the board of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and the Big Questions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Inhalt

1. Introduction (G. Glas).- Part 1. The Concept of Creation Order.- 2. Natural Law, Metaphysics, and the Creator (E. Stump).- 3. Is the Idea of "Creational Order" Still Fruitful? (D.F.M. Strauss).- 4. Creation Order in the Light of Redemption (H.G. Geertsema).- Part 2. Creation order, emergence, and the sciences.- 5. Christian Philosophy and Mathematics (D.F.M Strauss).- 6. Properties, propensities and challenges: Emergence in and from the natural world (M.D. Stafleu).- 7. Nuancing Emergentist Claims: Lessons from Physics (A. Sikkema).- 8. Order and Emergence in Biological Evolution (D. Alexander).- 9. Biology and the Philosophy of Emergence (J. van der Meer).- 10. Creation Order and the Sciences of the Person (G. Glas).- 11. Beyond Emergence? Learning from Dooyeweerdian Anthropology (L. Jaeger).- Part 3. Creation order and the philosophy of religions.- 12. For the Love of Wisdom (N. Ansell).- 13. Theological Concerns about the Future of Creation Order (A. Verhoef).- 14. A Contribution to the Concept of Creation Order from a Lutheran Perspective (H. Schaeffer).- 15. Sophia as the foundation of creation order (J. van Kessel).- 16. Out of the Ashes: A Case Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology and the Orders of Creation (A. Mosher).