A Critical Look on Polkinghorne's Point of View; Insufficiency of Uncertainty Principles in Physics to Explain Divine Agency

Barzegar Tabrizi, F.; Dibaji, S.M.A.

doi:10.58209/jpt.1.3.213

A Critical Look on Polkinghorne's Point of View; Insufficiency of Uncertainty Principles in Physics to Explain Divine Agency

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

F. Barzegar Tabrizi

S.M.A. Dibaji

Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Theology, College of Farabi, University of Tehran. Qom, Iran

https://doi.org/10.58209/jpt.1.3.213

Abstract

In the philosophy of religion, Divine Agency has been related to how God does his action in the human world and the physical world. Polkinghorne has presented a particular method to answer this question. His theological approach has been a combination of Classical Theology and Process Theology. On the one hand, he has said that the God defined in Classical Theology is too unavailable, and on the other hand, he has criticized the Process approach to God. Polkinghorne has established that Epistemology is equal to Ontology, and based on this fact, he has explained his Critical Realism. In his view, the guaranty of reality is not to understand it but is its objectivity. Uncertain situations in Modern Physics presented in Einsteinian Relativity, Quantum Theory, and Chaos Theory is the main areas Polkinghorne has constructed his specific theory about Divine Agency on them.

Keywords

Divine Agency

Polkinghorne

Modern Physics

Uncertain Principles

Subjects

Philosophy of Religion (Modern)

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