REMEMBERING ARTHUR PEACOCKE: A PERSONAL REFLECTION |
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| Authors: | Ian G Barbour |
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| Institution: | 1. Professor of Physics and Professor of Religion at Carleton College, 1 North College St., Northfield, MN 55057;2. e‐mail ibarbour@carleton.edu. |
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| Abstract: | I join others who have expressed profound gratitude for the life and thought of Arthur Peacocke. I recall some high points in my interaction with him during a period of forty years as an intellectual companion and personal friend. Some similarities in our thinking about evolution, emergence, top‐down causality, and continuing creation are indicated. Four points of difference are then discussed: (1) Emergent monism or two‐aspect process events? (2) Panentheism or process theism? (3) Creation ex nihilo and/or continuing creation? (4) Voluntary or necessary limitation of God's power? Even when we differed I have benefited immensely from our ongoing interaction. |
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| Keywords: | creation emergence evolution Charles Hartshorne kenosis panentheism Arthur Peacocke John Polkinghorne process philosophy top‐down causality Alfred North Whitehead |
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