Table of Contents

Contributors     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Editor's Introduction   Philip Clayton     xi
A Naturalistic Christian Faith for the Twenty-First Century: An Essay in Interpretation   Arthur Peacocke
Preface     3
Prologue: Naturalism, Theism, and Religion     5
Philosophical and Theological Consequences of the Scientific Perspective
Emergentist Monism     12
Theistic Naturalism     17
Panentheism     21
The Consequences for Theology of the Reappraisal of the Natural
The Application of an "Emergentist-Naturalistic-Panentheistic" Perspective     26
Jesus of Nazareth-A Naturalistic Interpretation     29
Jesus the Christ-A Naturalistic "Incarnation"?     36
The Eucharist-A Natural Enactment     42
God's Interaction with the World     45
Transforming Grace     48
Conclusion     55
Responses
Arthur Peacocke's Theology of Possibilities   Philip Hefner     59
Some Words in Favor of Reductionism, Pantheism, Theism, and More   Willem B. Drees     70
Emergence, Naturalism, and Panentheism: An Eastern Christian Perspective   Christopher C. Knight     81
Empirical Theology and a "Naturalistic Christian Faith"   Karl E. Peters     93
Sacrament and Sacrifice: The Feedback Loops of Religious Community   Donald M. Braxton     104
The Juxtaposition of Naturalistic and Christian Faith: Reappraising the Natural from within a Different Theological Lens   Ann Pederson     119
Arthur Peacocke: Postmodern Prophet   Nancey Murphy     130
Arthur Peacocke on Method in Theology and Science and His Model of the Divine/World Interaction: An Appreciative Assessment   Robert John Russell     140
Personhood, Spirit, and the Supernatural   Keith Ward     152
On Divine and Human Agency: Reflections of a Co-Laborer   Philip Clayton     163
Reflections on the Responses   Arthur Peacocke     176
Nunc Dimittis   Arthur Peacocke     191
"God"     195
A Short Life of Jesus     196
God's Interaction with the World     199
Notes     201