Abstract
James Huchingson's book, Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God, is an artistic improvisation on recurrent themes in the dialogue between religion and science. Around the cantus firmus of the Pandemonium Tremendum Huchingson composes a grand metaphysical composition that is glorious in its detail, magnificent in its overarching themes, and careful in its attention to context. Much like a suspended chord between two different harmonies, Huchingson's theological composition dangles the reader in the tensions of religion and science, modernity and postmodernity, particulars and universals, God and the world. Although this book is surely a cutting‐edge development in the ongoing corpus of religion and science, I am most excited about its constructive theological provocations. This is a work in progress, a composition in the making.
Keywords
improvisation, universals, particularities, metaphysics, chaos, complexity, metaphor
How to Cite
Pederson, A., (2002) “James Huchingson's Constructive Theology”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 37(2), 421–432. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/0591-2385.00437
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