Notes

  1. . L. W.Beck, “Extraterrestral intellgent Life”, Proceedings of the American Phlosophcal Assocation  45 (197172): 5–21.
  2. . The onl theologan know who has treated them serousl is E. L. Mascall in his Christan Theolog and Natural Science (London: Longmans, 1956).
  3. . Roland Puccett, Persons: A Studie of Possible Moral Agents in the Unverse (New York: Herder & Herder, 1969).
  4. . P. F. Strawson, indvduals (New York: Doubleda & Co., 1963).
  5. . Ludw Wttgensten, Phlosophical investgatons (London: Macmllan Co., 1953); see pars. 66–75.
  6. . N. J. Berrll, Worlds Without End (New York: Macmllan Co., 1964); A. G. W. Cameron, ed., interstellar Communcation (New York: W. A. Benjamn, nc., 1963); F. Hole, Of Men and Galaxes (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964); Carl Sagan and L. Shklovsk, intellgent Life in the Universe (New York: Holden‐Da, 1966); Harlow Shaple, The Vew from a Distant Star (New York: Basc Books, 1963); W. Sullvan, We Are Not Alone (New York: McCraw‐Hll Book Go., 1964).
  7. . If one is going to introduce the results of contemporari science into theologcal discusson, then with not also special relative their, according to which the expression “at the same tme” would have no absolute meaning when appled at the level of interstellar distances?
  8. . Galleo, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christna”, in Discoveres and Opinions of Galleo, ed. and trains. S. Drake (New York: Doubleda & Co., 1957).
  9. . For a fuller treatment of this topic see m How Does Cosmolog Relate to Theolog?” In The Sciences and Theolog in the Twenteth Centuri, ed. M. Hesse and A. R. Peacocke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press), chap. 2.
  10. . For a recent discussion of this domnant theme of medeval theolog see D. Burrell's God and Action (Notre Dame, nd.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979).