In recent centuries, and within the context of an ever-increasing interest in the relation of science and religion, there has been an ongoing debate between atheists, agnostics, religious naturalists, deists, pantheists, panentheists, and theists about the existence, character, and function of the laws of nature, and their relation, if any, to a divine lawgiver. Any students of science, philosophy, and theology, will no doubt want to sooner or later engage themselves in that debate. It is the assumption of this book, however, that before trying to conclude which of the various interpretations makes the most sense, such students will first need to have a clear understanding of what exactly the respective interpretations are actually saying. And that is what this book means to provide in Parts I and II, namely introductory descriptions of the respective interpretations. Objections raised against one or another of them will, for the most part, be introduced only in the final chapter of Part III.
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BERNARD J. VERKAMP is emeritus professor of philosophy and religious studies at Vincennes University in Vincennes, IN. After four years of studying theology under Karl Rahner at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and another four years in pursuit of a Ph.D. at the University of Saint Louis, he taught philosophy, ethics, and comparative religion classes at Vincennes University and was a visiting professor of medieval Christian theology at Notre Dame during the summer of 1975. During subsequent years of teaching some eight thousand students, he authored six scholarly books (The Indifferent Mean, The Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors, The Evolution of Religion, The Senses of Mystery, The Sense of Wonder, and The Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion, and multiple articles in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Philosophy and Theology, the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Theological Studies, Faith and Philosophy, Church History, Review for Religious, and the American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, in addition to periodic essays and reviews in America, Thought, Review for Metaphysics, Tecumseh Review, and Commonweal.
