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Newsletter Nr. 842
Amsterdam, March 23rd, 2020


‘OF COURSE IT'S TRANSCENDENT BUT ALSO IMMANENT’ - Ken Wilber's Evolutionary Theology - FRANK VISSER

I have argued many times that Ken Wilber doesn't offer an evolutionary theory—contrary to his claims he even has "the only theory that can actually explain the mysteries of evolution satisfactorily"—but an evolutionary theology. To drive this point home it is instructive to discuss the work of a theologian who has expressed similar (but also quite different) points of view. Arthur Peacocke, who was both a physical biochemist and an Anglican Priest, argued in his God and the New Biology that "one should speak of the world, of nature, of all-that-is, as being 'in God', rather than of God as 'in the world'... the whole world takes on a new value and significance—not simply because it resulted in us, but because it is an expression of God in action..." (p. 129). The book is listed in the bibliography of SES.

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