Beginning with the end : God, science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg / edited by Carol Rausch Albright and Joel Haugen.

Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [1997], ©1997.

xvii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Theological questions to scientists / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- Laying theological claim to scientific understandings / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- The doctrine of the spirit and the task of a theology of nature / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- Spirit and energy in the phenomenology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- The role of science in Pannenberg's theological thinking / Philip Hefner -- Self-transcendence : the human spirit and the holy spirit / Robert Potter -- The Omega Point as eschaton : answers to Pannenberg's questions to scientists / Frank J. Tipler -- Cosmology and eschatology : the implications of Tipler's 'Omega Point' theory to Pannenberg's theological program / Robert J. Russell -- Contingency, time, and the theological ambiguity of science / Willem B. Drees -- Toward an evolutionary ecology of meaning / Jeffrey S. Wicken -- Clarity of the part versus meaning of the whole / Ted Peters -- Spirit, method, and content in science and religion : the theological perspective of a geneticist / Lindon Eaves -- Behavioral genetics, or what's missing from theological anthropology? / Lindon Eaves -- Truth and commitment in theology and science : an appraisal of Wolfhart Pannenberg's perspective / Wentzel van Huyssten -- To expand and deepen the provisional : an inquiry into Pannenberg's Anthropology in theological perspective / Paul Sponheim -- From methodology to metaphysics : the problem of control in the science-theology dialogue / Philip Clayton -- A Lakatosian reconstruction of Pannenberg's program : responses to Sponheim, van Huyssteen, and Eaves / Nancey Murphy -- Theological appropriation of scientific understantdings : response to Hefner, Wicken, Eaves, and Tipler / Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.