Notes
A “plausibility structure,” as Berger uses the term, is a social structure of ideas and practices that create the conditions determining what beliefs are plausible within the society in question.
The Heretical Imperative, p. 148.
The Heretical Imperative, pp. 90–91; Zaehner, “Mysticism”: Sacred and Profane, pp. 157–58; Ghazali, Mishkatu ’l-Anwar, p. 121 (Eng. tr. W. H. T. Gardiner [Lahore 1952], pp. 103, 152).
The Heretical Imperative, p. 136.
W. E. Gladstone, The State in its Relation to the Church, 1:124–25; quoted in A. R. Vidler, The Orb and the Cross, pp. 142–43.
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, p. 123.
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, p. 123.
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, pp. 7ff.
Ibid., pp. 257ff.
MacIntyre, After Virtue, pp. 35–59.
Ibid., p. 55.
F. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith, para. 15, p. 76; para. 30, p. 126; para. 97, pp. 418ff.
Langdon Gilkey, How the Church Can Minister to the World without Losing Itself, p. 91.
D. Kelsey, Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology.
D. Nineham, The Use and Abuse of the Bible, p. 237.
R. Bultmann, Faith and understanding, p. 41.
P. Stuhlmacher, Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation of Scripture, p. 89.
H. Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative, pp. 13–14.
See G. B. Caird, The Language and Imagery of the Bible, p. 60.
Laplace, Traité de Probabilité, 7:vi–vii; quoted in M. Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 140.
M. Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, p. 141.
W. H. Thorpe, Purpose in a World of Chance: A Biologist’s View, p. 111.
E. G. Stanley Jaki, Science and Creation (1974); The Road of Science and the Ways to God (1978).
From Of Molecules and Men (1966), quoted in A. R. Peacocke, Creation and the World of Science, p. 118.
Quoted in Thorpe, Purpose in a World of Chance, p. 26.
See MacIntyre, After Virtue, pp. 84–102.
Ibid., p. 76.
Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, esp. pp. 95–100.
From R. A. Fisher, The Design of Experiments (1935), quoted in Polanyi, pp. 22ff.
See Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, pp. 331ff.
C. H. Waddington, quoted in Thorpe, Purpose in a World of Chance, p. 34.
See Peacocke, Creation and the World of Science, pp. 97–100, on the work of Prigogine et al.
See Jubilate: Theology in Praise (1984), p. 118.
See G. Kittel, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, s. v. “Ecclesia.”
M. Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, pp. 266ff.
See Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 323.
City of God, XIX, 5–7, 12.
Ibid., XIX, 14.
Ibid., XIX, 23.
N. Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium.
C. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1967).
M. Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, pp. 53–54.
Ibid., p. 70.
Ibid., p. 85.
B. Wilson, quoted in Habgood, Church and Nation in a Secular Age, p. 47.
J. Maritain, True Humanism, p. 214.
G. Ionescu, Politics and the Pursuit of Happiness, pp. 1–2.
See Plant, Lesser, and Taylor-Gooby, Political Philosophy and Social Welfare, pp. 38ff.
See the profound study The Needs of Strangers (1984) by Michael Ignatieff, pp. 27–53.
A. MacIntyre, After Virtue, p. 245.
Teilhard de Chardin, Le Milieu Divin, p. 68.
H. Dooyeweerd, Roots of Western Culture, p. 22.
Russell E. Richey, ed., Denominationalism, p. 167.
Ibid., p. 264.
T. Luckman, The Invisible Religion, p. 99.
See M. Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, pp. 269–94.