Development and Divine Purpose (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Vernon Faithfull Storr

9780666333490: Development and Divine Purpose (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0666333491 ISBN 13: 9780666333490

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Explore how science, philosophy, and faith meet in a thoughtful study of God, evolution, and human meaning.

This Cambridge-text lectures volume investigates the unity of knowledge and asks how personality, ethics, and the divine can be understood together. It frames religion as the movement of the whole person toward a final divine unity and offers a clear path through complex ideas about design, development, and purpose.

Grounded in the Philosophy of Religion, the work traces questions from the design argument and Darwin's theory to the ideas of progress, order, and teleology. It examines whether God can be imagined as an immanent cause working within creation, and how human experience, reason, and faith can coherently point to a personal, purposeful divine presence. The book blends critical reflection with accessible explanations, inviting readers to weigh arguments about creation, causality, and the meaning of development without simplifying the mystery of existence.

Engaging discussion of the argument from design and its relation to science.
Exploration of development, progress, and the meaning of order in nature.
Consideration of divine immanence versus transcendence and the idea of personality in God.
Structured chapters on the tests of development and the conception of divine purpose.

Ideal for readers of philosophy of religion, theology, and readers curious about how science and faith can inform each other.

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