Determinism and Free Creation

Footnote

Thomas F. Torrance, "Determinism and Free Creation according to the Theologians," in Communications of the New York Symposium, July 1977, Institut International des Sciences Théoriques: Christian Theology in the Context of Scientific Revolution, ed. Methodios Fouyas (Athens: Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses et Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, 1978), 9-29; #1978-353

Bibliography

Torrance, Thomas F. "Determinism and Free Creation According to the Theologians." In Communications of the New York Symposium, July 1977, Institut International Des Sciences Théoriques: Christian Theology in the Context of Scientific Revolution, 9-29. Edited by Methodios Fouyas. Athens: Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses et Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences; Reprinted from Abba Salama vol. IX (1978), 1978; #1978-353

Publication life cycle / General notes
  • Published as "Determinism and Free Creation according to the Theologians" in Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses (#1978-353).
  • Reprinted from Abba Salama vol. IX (1978) (1451)
  • Translated into German as "Determinismus und Freie Schöpfung aus der Sicht der Theologie" (#1979-357).
  • Reprinted as ch. 1 in Divine and Contingent Order (#1981-385b).

From the Preface of Divine and Contingent Order (1981), pp. ix-x: "The first three chapters of this book represent lectures I have given to groups of scientists and theologians, and are reproduced here with only subsidiary modification. 'Creation and Determinism' was delivered to the International Institute of Theoretic Sciences, combining the International Academies of the Philosophy of Sciences and of Religious Sciences, at its meeting in St. John's University, Long Island, New York, on 9 July 1977."