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This volume examines the implications of the Judaeo-Christian claim for our understanding of the universe that it is contingent: freely created by God out of nothing, and having an existence, freedom, and rational order of its own while still dependent on Him. Professor Torrance argues that this claim made possible the development of western empirical science. However, Newtonian physics obscured...

visible and invisible, and the ultimate source of all order and rationality, carried with it a rejection of the dualism, pluralism, and polymorphism of ancient philosophy, religion, and science, and thus gave rise to the conception of the universe as one harmonious system of things characterized by one pervasive if multi-variable order throughout. This rational unity of the cosmos, spanning celestial as well as terrestrial spheres, which is the correlate of Judaeo-Christian monotheism, has ever since
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