vol 6: Essays
Site map
Directory
Search this site
Home
1: About
2: Synopsis
3: Development
Next:
Previous: Essays: Toc
... to restore theology to the mainstream of science
Introduction
This seems to be the mode of our life, that we move toward the future by beating around the bush, guided to some extent by past experience, looking for some secure and useful step forward. In many cases, forward means away from some difficulty.
An essay is a written form of beating around the bush. Like any search, it may or may not get anywhere. At least, by testing some possibilities, it may indicate where some dead ends lie.
I publish these essays in this spirit as part of the public archive associated with a new vision of God.
essay 1. A short literary composition on a particular subject. 2. an effort to perform or accomplish something; an attempt. 3. a tentative effort. 4. to try; attempt. 5. to put to the test; to make trial of. [Middle French (1400-1600) essai from Late Latin (300-700) exagium a weighing. See assay] back
Books
| Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province), Tabor Publishing 1981 'Brother Thomas raised new problems in his teaching, invented a new method, used new systems of proof. To hear him teach a new doctrine, with new arguments, one could not doubt that God, by the irradiation of this new light and by the novelty of this inspiration, gave him the power to teach, by the spoken and written word, new opinions and new knowledge.' (William of Tocco, T's first biographer) Amazon back |
| Ashby, W Ross, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen 1964 'This book is intended to provide [an introduction to cybernetics]. It starts from common-place and well understood concepts, and proceeds step by step to show how these concepts can be made exact, and how they can be developed until they lead into such subjects as feedback, stability, regulation, ultrastability, information, coding, noise and other cybernetic topics' Amazon back |
| Chaitin, Gregory J, Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory, World Scientific 1987 Jacket: 'Algorithmic information theory is a branch of computational complexity theory concerned with the size of computer programs rather than with their running time. ... The theory combines features of probability theory, information theory, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and recursive function or computability theory. ... [A] major application of algorithmic information theory has been the dramatic new light it throws on Goedel's famous incompleteness theorem and on the limitations of the axiomatic method. ...' Amazon back |
| Denzinger, Henricus, Enchiridion Symbolorum, Definitionum et Declarationum de Rebus Fidei et Morum, Herder 1963 Introduction: 'Dubium non est quin praeter s. Scripturam cuique theologo summe desiderandus sit etiam liber manualis quo contineantur edicta Magisterii ecclesiastici eaque saltem maioris momenti, et quo ope variorim indicum quaerenti aperiantur eorum materiae.' (3) 'There is no doubt that in addition to holy Scripture, every theologian also needs a handbook which contains at least the more important edicts of the Magisterium of the Church, indexed in a way which makes them easy to find.'back |
| Dirac, P A M, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed), Oxford UP/Clarendon 1983 Jacket: '[this] is the standard work in the fundamental principles of quantum mechaincs, indispensible both to the advanced student and the mature research worker, who will always find it a fresh source of knowledge and stimulation.' (Nature) Amazon back |
| Ford, David, The Modern Theologians : An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century, Blackwell 1997 Preface: 'The main aim of this volume is to introduce the theology of most leading twentieth-century Christian theologians and movements in theology. ... The contributors are mostly based in Europe of North America and come from a wide range of institutions, denominational backgrounds, and countries. Most are themselves constructively engaged in modern theology, and their purpose has been to produce a scholarly account of their subject and also carry further the theological dialogue in each case." Amazon back |
| Jech, Thomas, Set Theory, Springer 1997 Jacket: 'This book covers major areas of modern set theory: cardinal arithmetic, constructible sets, forcing and Boolean-valued models, large cardinals and descriptive set theory. ... It can be used as a textbook for a graduate course in set theory and can serve as a reference book.' Amazon back |
| Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' Amazon back |
| Mendelson, Elliott, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, van Nostrand 1987 Preface: '... a compact introduction to some of the principal topics of mathematical logic. ... In the belief that beginners should be exposed to the most natural and easiest proofs, free swinging set-theoretical methods have been used." Amazon back |
| Robins, R F, A Short History of Linguistics, Longman 1990 R H Robins is Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics in the University of Londonback |
| Savitch, Walter J, The Formal Complexity of Natural Language, D Reidl 1987 Introduction: 'While the mathematical questions involved in defining context-free grammars and languages may have deterred some readers from looking closely at the question of whether natural language is context-free, we believe that the mathematical results needed can be covered rather quickly and that the more subtle and interesting questions are those concerned with how mathematics meshes with natural language as phenomenon and with linguistics as a discipline.' (ix) Amazon back |
| Wiener, Norbert, Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine, MIT Press 1996 The classic founding text of cybernetics. Amazon back |
| Yourgrau, Wolfgang, and Stanley Mandelstam, Variational Principles in Dynamics and Quantum Theory, Dover 1979 Variational principles serve as filters for parititioning the set of dynamic possibilities of a system into a high probability and a low probability set. The method derives from De Maupertuis (1698-1759) who formulated the principle of least action, which states that physical laws include a rule of economy, the principle of least action. This principle states that in a mathematically dsecribed dynamic system will move so as to minimise action. Mandelstam explains the application of this principle to a variety of physical systems. Amazon back |
Click on an "Amazon" link in the booklist below to buy the book, see more details or search for similar items
