CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Explanation of the Questions
Introduction to the Natural Sciences
The Natural Sciences:
1. Astronomy
2. Chemistry
3. Earth Sciences
4. Environmental Sciences
5. Life Sciences
6. Light Sciences
7. Physics
Introduction to the Human Sciences
The Human Sciences:
8. Aesthetics
9. Anthropology
10. Dietetics
11. Demography
12. Economics
13. Ethics
14. Health Sciences
15. History
16. Law
17. Linguistics
18. Philosophy
19. Political Science
20. Psychology
21. Sociology
Introduction to the Imaginative Sciences
The Imaginative Sciences:
22. Art
23 Cybernetics
24 Dramatic Arts
25 Education
26 Engineering
27 Management
28. Mathematics
29. Music
30. Urban Studies
The Summation of the Responses to the Questions:
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Quotations: Acknow1edgements and References
Questions Fold-out
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Here are the six questions with which the book deals:
· explaining their significance
· responding to them in relation to the thirty listed subjects
· summing up the responses to each
thus elucidating what is meant by the transfiguration of human knowledge.
1. What does the subject cover?
2. What is it saying theologically?
3. At what point in the biblical spectrum is it located?
4. What references are there to this subject in the Bible?
5. What have been the encounter points or critical episodes
in the relationship between this subject & theology?
6. What potential is there in this subject for the introduction
of a New Testament or a new creation dimension?
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BOOK REVIEW
(from 'The North Coast Anglican')
"Tracing the impact of the gospel on the world and how it might become even more effective
and acceptable to those engaged in the pursuit of knowledge".
For some years, Peter has endeavoured - in the midst of a full work schedule - to bring his major life-fulfilling enterprise to fruition. Then, in view of life-threatening surgery 1n 1997 and subsequent diminished capacity to work, he hastened to put it into print lest it be lost for ever.
At the time of St.Thomas Aquinas, theology attained the stature of being 'The Queen of the Sciences'. Can it be so again? Is theology today capable of entering into a new relationship with all the sciences? Are the sciences too independent, too sophisticated, too far removed to be associated with theology?
In The Tansfiguration of Human Knowledge, Dr. Rudge - after a lifetime of reading, study and experience - presents theology and the reading of the Bible in such a way as to establish the credibility of theology as a senior partner.
He also reviews many areas of knowledge in a sympathetic, perceptive and positive manner. He points the way to the possibility of a renewed relationship between theology and the sciences, with the potential of enriching both parties and without comprising the integrity of either.
Do astronomers know the mind of God? What connection is there between urban studies and the city of God, the new Jerusalem? Is all law God's law? Can the people of God be studied demographically? Was the fall of Rome in 410 AD the end of the world … or the beginning of a Christian view of history?
These and many other issues are dealt with in this comprehensive treatise in which the major areas of scholarship are related to theology and biblical insights.
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