Humanity could only have su... by Arthur Peacocke, an English Theologian

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“Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.”

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Arthur Peacocke

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Name: Arthur Peacocke

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Nov 29, 1924

Date of Death: Oct 21, 2006

Profession: Theologian

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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

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Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

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God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

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Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

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