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The Fall and Hypertime
Hud Hudson
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Description for The Fall and Hypertime
Hardcover. Hud Hudson shows that apparently irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion often turn out to be misdescribed battles about negotiable philosophical assumptions. He defends an original Hypertime Hypothesis which reconciles the Christian doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin with reigning scientific orthodoxy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; HRAM3; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to the putative inconsistency between the doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin and the deliverances of contemporary science. The tension in question emerges through a study of the many forms the religious doctrines have assumed over the centuries and through a review of some well-established scientific lessons on the origin and history of the universe and of human persons. The first stage: After surveying various paths of retreat ... Read more
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to the putative inconsistency between the doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin and the deliverances of contemporary science. The tension in question emerges through a study of the many forms the religious doctrines have assumed over the centuries and through a review of some well-established scientific lessons on the origin and history of the universe and of human persons. The first stage: After surveying various paths of retreat ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198712695
SKU
V9780198712695
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About Hud Hudson
Hud Hudson is a professor of philosophy at Western Washington University. He works primarily in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of modern philosophy, and has published numerous articles in a variety of journals including Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, and The Journal of Philosophy. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Hyperspace ... Read more
Reviews for The Fall and Hypertime
... a brilliant and creative defense ... the reader of Hudson's book will be richly rewarded with penetrating and creative discussion of theology, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion applied to one of the major disputes of our day regarding the rational status of religious beliefs.
Trent Dougherty, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
this is an outstanding book from ... Read more
Trent Dougherty, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
this is an outstanding book from ... Read more