Joseph Bracken

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  Reciprocal Causality In An Event Filled World

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  Given the current sense of helplessness in dealing with environmental change and other urgent issues, a new world view is needed that emphasizes the unique contribution that individual citizens can make to the common good as opposed to their individual needs and desires. In a recent encyclical on the environment, Pope Francis set forth reasons from Scripture and Church teaching for this shift in perspective, but he did not provide a philosophically based foundation for this change of heart. To fill that gap, Joseph Bracken examines key writings of process-oriented philosophers like Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead along with systems-oriented thinkers like Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Ervin Laszlo to create a systems-oriented understanding of the God-world relation.

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  World In The Trinity

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  Introduction

  Part I
  1. Language And Reality
  2. The “Inside” And The “Outside” Of Everything
  3. Philosophical/Scientific Models Of The God-World Relationship In The Current Religion And Science Debate
  4. Theological Models Of The God-World Relationship In The Current Religion And Science Debate
  5. Panentheism: Hierarchically Ordered Systems Of Existence And Activity

  Part II
  6. “Incarnation” As Key To The Argument For Panentheism
  7. Divine And Human Personhood In A Systems-Oriented Approach To The Trinity
  8. Tradition And Traditioning: Church As Both System And Institutional Entity?
  9. Miracles And The Problem Of Evil
  10. Resurrection And Eternal Life
  Conclusion

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  Joseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.

  In The World in the Trinity, Bracken utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and rationally plausible to a contemporary, scientifically influenced society. This account opens new possibilities for rethinking the God-world relationship, the Trinity, incarnation, creation, and eschatology within the context of a broader ecological and cosmological system. In re-describing these articles constitutive of Christian belief, the author is conscious of the vital importance of retaining the inherent power and meaning of these concepts. This volume freshly retrieves pivotal themes and concepts constitutive of the Christian tradition in a conscious rapprochement with current scientific understandings of nature.

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