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Progress in Theology: Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance? book cover

1st Edition

Progress in Theology Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance?

Edited By Gijsbert van den Brink, Rik Peels, Bethany Sollereder Copyright 2025
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the intriguing relationship between theology, science, and the ideal of progress from a variety of perspectives. While seriously discussing the obstacles and pitfalls related to the notion of progress in theology, it argues that there are in fact many different kinds of progress in theology. It considers how this sheds positive light on what theologians do and suggests that... Read more

PART I Situating the Debate

1 Progress in Theology: An Introduction

Gijsbert van den Brink, Rik Peels, Bethany Sollereder

2 The Metaphysics of Progress  

René van Woudenberg

3 Brother Juniper’s Experiment: And Five Better Ways of Seeing Progress in Theology

Gijsbert van den Brink

 PART II Dimensions of Progress

 4 Epistemic, Moral, and Religious Progress in Theology

Rik Peels

5 Synchronic Progress in the Understanding of Doctrine: A Marian Perspective

Michaël Bauwens

6 Fine-Tuning the Sources of Theology

Hans van Eyghen

7 Theology and the Hermeneutics of Testimony: Progress in Theological Interpretation?

Adriani Milli Rodrigues

8 Christian Theology as Comparative Theology: Going Comparative as Highway towards Progress

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

9 The Paradox of Progress: Theology and the Divided Brain

Oskari Juurikkala

 PART III Case Studies

 10 Freedom and Foreknowledge: A Case Study in Progress in Theology

Katherin A. Rogers

11 Epistemic Progress in the Divine Action Debate

Ignacio Silva

12 Theological Anthropology Progressing through Artificial Intelligence

Marius Dorobantu

13 Progress as Overcoming Theological Dissensus: Two Strategies in Ecumenical Dialogue

Cody Warta

14 Progress, Theology, and Climate Change: Creating Pandaemonium when Working for Paradise

Bethany Sollereder

 PART IV Progress and Theology’s Place in the University

 15 Epistemic Norms in Theology and Science

Johan De Smedt and Helen De Cruz

16 The Future of Protestant Theology: An Epistemological Vacuum

Katrin Gülden Le Maire

17 The Place of Theology in the Secular University

Paul A. Macdonald, Jr.

Index

Biography

Gijsbert van den Brink is Professor of Theology and Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Rik Peels is Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, holding a University Research Chair in Analytic and Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Religion.

Bethany Sollereder is a Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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