Systems Theory and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Systems Theory and Theology write by Markus Locker. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Systems Theory and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributions to the collection Systems Theory and Theology explore the interplay between systems theory, religion and theology, and the symbolic expressions and philosophical foundations of these academic disciplines. This endeavor is rooted in the oeuvre of the late Austrian physicist Alfred Locker (1922-2005), who firmly believed that systems theory would finally emerge, some sixty years after von Bertalanffy's seminal work on General System Theory, as a bridge-building metatheory between the sciences and religion. The essays in this volume show, however, that such conversation transcends the usual form of dialogue among these disciplines. The studies contained in this collection enter into a critical evaluation and reassessment of the dominant postulates of scientific and theological systems and their interaction. Systems Theory and Theology includes treatments of paradoxes (A. Locker), the inner sciences (Zwick), systems of meaning (Krieger), philosophy (Murphy), theology (Sedmak), isomorphies of religious symbols (Zwick), and the bridging of science and religion (M. Locker).
A Systems Theory of Religion
A Systems Theory of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Systems Theory of Religion write by Niklas Luhmann. This book was released on 2013-01-09. A Systems Theory of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems that make up modern society. All such subsystems consist entirely of communications and all are "autopoietic," which is to say, self-organizing and self-generating. Here, Luhmann explains how religion provides a code for coping with the complexity, opacity, and uncontrollability of our world. Religion functions to make definite the indefinite, to reconcile the immanent and the transcendent. Synthesizing approaches as disparate as the philosophy of language, historical linguistics, deconstruction, and formal systems theory/cybernetics, A Systems Theory of Religion takes on important topics that range from religion's meaning and evolution to secularization, turning decades of sociological assumptions on their head. It provides us with a fresh vocabulary and a fresh philosophical and sociological approach to one of society's most fundamental phenomena.
Systems Theory and Theology
Systems Theory and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Systems Theory and Theology write by Markus Locker. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Systems Theory and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributions to the collection explore the interplay between systems theory, religion and theology, and the symbolic expressions and philosophical foundations of these academic disciplines. This endeavor is rooted in the oeuvre of the late Austrian physicist Alfred Locker (1922-2005), who firmly believed that systems theory would finally emerged, some sixty years after Bertalanffy's seminal work on General System Theory, as a bridge-building metatheory between the sciences and religion. The studies contained in this collection enter into a critical evaluation and reassessment of the dominant postulates of scientific and theological systems and their interaction, including treatments of paradoxes (A. Locker), the inner sciences (Zwick), systems of meaning (Krieger), philosophy (Murphy), theology (Sedmak), isomorphies of religious symbols (Zwick), and the bridging of science and religion (A. Locker).
African Women's Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory
African Women's Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Women's Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory write by Mpyana Fulgence Nyengele. This book was released on 2004. African Women's Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African women theologians have written extensively about problems in gender relations in African contexts, identifying oppressive elements and their effects on women's self-concept and status in the church, family, and society. This book provides much-needed pastoral theological attention and a response to the psychospiritual, relational, and sociocultural effects of gender injustice and marginalization of women. It critically examines concepts, methods, and principles of family systems theory, analyzes gender relations in African families and churches, and develops a theology of pastoral care (based on the Trinitarian concept of perichoresis) that offers pastoral guidelines for effective pastoral counseling with women and men, as well as recommendations for corrective and preventative care grounded in educational strategies. The paradigm of pastoral care that emerges attends both to women affected by gender injustice and to the sociocultural norms that cause distress and perpetuate gender oppression.
Theology and the Entropic Condition
Theology and the Entropic Condition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and the Entropic Condition write by Matthew Zaro Fisher. This book was released on 2015. Theology and the Entropic Condition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
