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Author Fuller, Michael

Title Matter and Meaning : Is Matter Sacred or Profane?
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages)
Contents COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION:MATTER AND MEANING -- PART I:SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON MATTER -- CHAPTER TWOWHY MATTER?A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER THREERE-CREATION:A POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONOF QUANTUM INDETERMINISM -- PART II:HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATTER -- CHAPTER FOURTHEOLOGY AND MATTER THEORYIN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD -- CHAPTER FIVETHEOLOGY AND THE MEANING OF MATTERIN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD:A RESPONSE TO PETER HARRISON -- CHAPTER SIXMODELS AND SYMBOLSIN THE UNDERSTANDING OF MATTER -- CHAPTER SEVENA RESPONSE TO COLIN RUSSELL'SMODELS AND SYMBOLSIN THE UNDERSTANDING OF MATTER -- CHAPTER EIGHTMATTER:AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE -- PART III:THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATTER -- CHAPTER NINETHE TRIUNE GOD AND THE TRIAD OF MATTER -- CHAPTER TENA RESPONSE TO NIELS HENRIK GREGERSEN'SGOD, MATTER AND INFORMATION -- CHAPTER ELEVENDIVINE GRACE AND THE CREATED ORDERIN THE HISTORY OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY -- CHAPTER TWELVEGOD AND THE MATTER DELUSION:THE DENIAL OF MATTER IN THE TEACHINGSAND PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE -- CHAPTER THIRTEENON THE CAPACITY OF SOUND WAVES, PAINTED CANVAS AND PRINTED PAGETO CARRY MEANING -AND THE PLACE OF THE ARTS IN A NEW-STYLENATURAL THEOLOGY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary We live in a material world. But what is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself, or can any meaning it possesses only be invested in it by human beings? To what extent might these semantic activities overlap? How have our current understandings of matter and meaningdeveloped from those of past thinkers, in both Western and non-Western contexts? These and many other questions were addressed at a conference held under the auspices of the Science and Religion Forum at Liverpool ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Metaphysics -- Congresses
Matter -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Matter -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Matter -- Philosophy
Matter -- Religious aspects
Metaphysics
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
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