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Did Adam have a navel? Did Adam and Eve have sex? Is God merely a fictional character, like Superman? Without thought experiments like these, the field of science and religion would be severely impoverished. Thought experiments are exercises of the imagination. Like in many other disciplines, the imagination has not received the attention it deserves in theology. This book argues that the imagination must be taken seriously as an engine for progress. It offers a theology of the imagination that is consistent with, and goes beyond, existing discussions about pluralism at the intersection of science and religion.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Thought Experiments
Introduction
1 The Practice of Thought Experiments
1 The Natural Sciences
2 Mathematics, History, and Philosophy
3 Science and Religion
4 Conclusion
2 200 Years of Thought Experiments
1 From Kant to Mach
2 The Year of 1986
3 The Pluralist Turn
4 A Nuanced Naturalism Is "True Enough"
5 Conclusion
3 Quantum Physics, Sexuality, and the Trinity
1 Scientist-Theologian
2 Diversity in Transition
3 Toys of Thought
4 Sexed Bodies
5 Sexuality in a Pluralist Perspective
6 Jews and Christians
7 Conclusion
4 Beyond Plato's Heaven
1 Heaven and Pluralism
2 The Thought Experiment of the Book of Job
3 An Inconceivable Unity in the Imagination
4 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index