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Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)
Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning - Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion Author:Nancey C. Murphy Murphy sets out to dispel skepticism regarding Christian belief. She argues for the rationality of Christian belief by showing that theological reasoning is similar to scientific reasoning as described by contemporary philosophy of science, notably by new historicist accounts of science, particularly those of Imre Lakatos. Acording t... more »o Lakatos, scientists work in a "research program" consisting of a fixed core theory and a series of changing auxiliary hypotheses that allow for prediciton and explanation of novel facts. Murphy argues that strikingly similar patterns of reasoning can be used to justify theological assertions. She shows that theological research programs such as those of Wolfhart Pannenberg and the Roman Catholic Modernists already come close to satisfying the demands of Lakatos's methodology.« less