Aesthetics, Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, Science, Theology

Physics and Christian Theology: Beauty, a Common Dialect?

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1Ernst Peter Fischer, Beauty and the Beast: The Aesthetic Moment in Science, trans. Elizabeth Oehlkers (New York: Plenum Trade, 1997) 12.

2Chandrasekhar 65.

3Chandrasekhar 66.

4Fischer 4.

5Chiara R. Nappi ,“Dirac’s Due” A review of Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work, Peter Goddard, ed. American Scientist 1 September 1998: 482, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, American Scientist Online 18 April 2005 <http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/15578>

6Judy Long, “Beauty, Mystery And Physics Discussed At Dirac Centenary Conference,” Baylor University News 3 October 2002: 2 Baylor University 7 June 2005 <http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=4230>.

7Chandrasekhar 54.

8Nappi 482.

9All Scripture quoted is from the New International Version, trans. copyright International Bible Society (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1973). Unless otherwise noted.

10The Holy Bible: Authorised King James Version (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode).

11C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (London: Collins, 1960) 83.

12Colossians 3:3.

13Torrance 123.

14Torrance 123.

15Torrance 123.

16Torrance 123.

17Fischer 4.

18Fischer 171.

19Colin Gunton, “Relation and Relativity: The Trinity and the Created World,” Trinitarian Theology Today, ed. Christoph Schwöbel (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995) 96.

20Gunton 95.

21Gunton 95.

22Gunton 95 (Footnote 5).

23Fischer 8.

24Torrance 12.

25Torrance 12.

26Torrance 14-15.

27Fischer 9.

28As quoted in Chandrasekhar 148.

29Torrance 17-34.
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Fischer, Ernst Peter. Beauty and the Beast: The Aesthetic Moment in Science. Trans. Elizabeth Oehlkers. New York: Plenum Trade, 1999.

Gunton, Colin. “Relation and Relativity: The Trinity and the Created World.” Ed. Christoph Schwöbel. Trinitarian Theology Today. Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 1995.

Lewis, C.S. The Four Loves. London: Collins, 1960.

Long, Judy. “Beauty, Mystery And Physics Discussed At Dirac Centenary Conference.” Baylor University News 3 October 2002: 2. Baylor University. 7 June 2005 <http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=4230>.

Nappi, Chiara R. “Dirac’s Due.” A review of Paul Dirac: The Man and His Work, ed. Peter Goddard. American Scientist 1 September 1998: 482. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, American Scientist Online. 18 April 2005 <http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/15578>.

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Torrance, Thomas F. Theological and Natural Science. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2002.