Theology After the Scientific Revolution: The Significance of Nancey Murphy's Contribution to Philosophy of Religion. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Early, Christian
• Is Part Of: Theology and science. Volume 15:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 438
• Page End: 447
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Philosophy of Religion -- epistemology -- ethics -- reductive materialism -- Quine -- kenosis -- moral nature of universe; Religion and science -- Periodicals; Theology -- Periodicals; 261.55
• DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2017.1369756
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-6700

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper evaluates Nancey Murphy's contribution to philosophy of religion paying special attention to epistemology and ethics. I argue that Murphy's intellectual moves are motivated by a reflective and constructive engagement—around particular loci such as human knowledge, divine action, and the moral nature of the universe—with reductive materialism as a rival tradition of inquiry. At paper's end, I suggest an amendment in Murphy's contribution to ethics.