Afterall Offices | JP Moreland

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Is Science a Threat or Help to Faith? Moreland surveys four options for the integration of science and theology and concludes that one of those options, "theistic science", is legitimate. There is nothing wrong in principle with bringing one's theology into the practice of science. Moreland takes the occasion to suggest further that it is an opportune time for Christians to rethink the subject and to allow theistic science to be a part of how they love God with their minds.

From Old Testament times and ancient Greece until this century, the good life was widely understood to mean a life of intellectual and moral virtue. The good life is the life of ideal human functioning according to the nature that God Himself gave to us. According to this view, prior to creation God had in mind an ideal blueprint of human nature from which he created each and every human being. Happiness was understood as a life of virtue, and the successful person was one who knew how to live life well according to what we are by nature due to the creative design of God. — from, Love God With All Your MInd