August 11, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS – In Creation and Double Chaos: Science and Theology in Discussion, scientist and theologian Sjoerd Bonting offers a new overarching framework for thinking about issues in religion and science.

Creation and Double Chaos first offers an original model for the religion-science discussion, then looks at the creation controversy itself, including biblical perspectives, traditional doctrines, and the particular potential contribution of chaos theory. Finally, Bonting extends this perspective, a combination of chaos theory and chaos theology that he calls "double chaos," into a framework that addresses traditional questions about evil, divine agency, soteriology, the understanding of disease, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and the future.

"In this stimulating work, Sjoerd Bonting engages his expertise as scientist and priest to reflect on the mystery of creation in the purposes of God and comes to unconventional conclusions about traditional ideas of divine ‘creation out of nothing.'" –Rev. Canon Dr. Arthur R. Peacock, 2001 Templeton Prize winner and author of Theology for a Scientific Age.

Sjoerd L. Bonting taught and researched biochemistry for thirty years at universities in the United States and the Netherlands and also worked at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda) and later for NASA. He is author of Chaos Theology: A Revised Creation Theology (Novalis, 2002).

Format: Paperback 260 pages 6 x 9 inches; ISBN: 0800637593; Publisher: Fortress Press; Price: $22.00.

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