Title: The God of Chance and Purpose: Divine Involvement in a Secular Evolutionary World
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1725283840
ISBN 13: 9781725283848
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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This brief title will pursue a triangulation of chance, divine involvement, and theology through a fundamentally Peircean lens--at least epistemologically and semiotically. The argument proceeds over five distinct chapters, and a conclusion that constitutes a sixth chapter. In Part I, I discuss the Modern Synthetic theory in evolutionary biology. In particular, I refer to what I have labeled the secular evolutionary worldview (SEW). Also in Part I, I dismiss the French physicist Pierre-Simon de Laplace's claim that a sufficiently informed intelligence could forecast everything that is going to happen in the whole universe--and, working backwards, tell you everything that did happen, not by direct citation and rebuke, but rather by implicit argumentation and demonstration of the God of Chance. In Part II of this book, I explore the God of chance and purpose, with theological assists provided by Philip Clayton and Alister McGrath over two chapters. So then, we live in a world of both chance and purpose. One may even go so far as to state that this world is designed for both chance and purpose.

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Bradford McCall is a theist, a Christian, and a practicing Catholic. My faith is deeply informed by both evolution and philosophy. Although science and philosophy are influences, they do not replace my deep Christian faith and experience. So then, "process" is a component of my understanding of God "in an evolutionary world." But it is not a metaphysical dogma, for it is not my goal to be a Whiteheadian (or a Peircean for that matter). These thinkers assist me; they do not provide a fundamental orientation for me. I am closer to process than to (say) Thomism, but this does not make me a Whiteheadian, as per se. I think that is where I differ from David Ray Griffin, Thomas Jay Oord, Roland Faber, and perhaps even Philip Clayton. I have been fortunate in that I have one B.S. in Biology, four Master degrees in Religion and Philosophy, and one PhD in Process Philosophy. My possibly penultimate training was received from Claremont School of Theology in May of 2022 (PhD). I have five books to my credit, four as author, and one as editor, all published with Wipf & Stock or one of their imprints. I have another 5 books under contract with the same company as well. Very fortunate indeed.

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