Re: [asa] Natural Scientific Naturalism, Philosophy and

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*Nature is not the only reality - does it even sound somehow
'unnatural' (o=
r
uncomfortable) for me to say that?*

Here is something that strikes me in the more sophisticated faith-
science
stuff I've read (e.g., Polkinghorne) -- what is the place of the
supernatural in relation to the natural? Probably it's because I
haven't
read enough yet, but it seems to me that the supernatural gets
cabined off
from human experience or gets naturalized. Reading Pelikan's history of
doctrine on the train last night, I was struck by the how important the
"supernatural order" was in the life and faith of the early Church.
Yet,
Pelikan notes, the early Church was exquisitely careful in its
proclamation=
s
to affirm that angels and demons are created beings, not gods as
supposed i=
n
the pagan faiths. It seems to me that any conception of the faith-
science
relation from a Christian perspective has to acknowledge that
"supernatural=
"
beings are part of the created order and that such beings can act
immanentl=
y
as agents within the created order. Anyone know of good papers etc.
that
explore this?

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Received on Tue Oct 31 10:51:27 2006