For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. Arthur Peacocke More Quotes by Arthur Peacocke More Quotes From Arthur Peacocke 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. Arthur Peacocke creating creativity god In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. Arthur Peacocke proposal catholic evolution The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses upon us a dynamic picture of the world of entities, structures and processes involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. Arthur Peacocke structure perspective world 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. Arthur Peacocke selfish humanity desire 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. Arthur Peacocke philosophical different creative We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. Arthur Peacocke cosmos origin-of-life generations 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. Arthur Peacocke debate natural world 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. Arthur Peacocke picture perspective change world
