The World in the Trinity: Open-Ended Systems in Science and Religion

Joseph A. Bracken argues that the failure of theology and science to generate cohesion is the lack of an integrated system of interpretation of the Christian faith that consciously accords with the insights and discoveries of contemporary science.

In The World in the Trinity, Bracken utilizes the language and conceptual structures of systems theory as a philosophical and scientific grammar to show traditional Christian beliefs in a new light that is accessible and rationally plausible to a contemporary, scientifically influenced society. This account opens new possibilities for rethinking the God-world relationship, the Trinity, incarnation, creation, and eschatology within the context of a broader ecological and cosmological system. In re-describing these articles constitutive of Christian belief, the author is conscious of the vital importance of retaining the inherent power and meaning of these concepts. This volume freshly retrieves pivotal themes and concepts constitutive of the Christian tradition in a conscious rapprochement with current scientific understandings of nature.

Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. is professor emeritus of theology and former director of the Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. He has specialized in linking the metaphysical thought of Alfred North Whitehead with Christian systematic theology. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles; his works include Subjectivity, Objectivity and Intersubjectivity: A New Paradigm for Religion and Science (2009) and Does God Roll Dice? Divine Providence for a World in the Making (2012).