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Questions Week 16, Day 4

by David Joynt on August 16, 2017


 

PSALM 33:1-9

 

 

You can explain what I’m doing at this moment using the categories of physics, describing the way water boils and flavors infuse, or you can describe it in terms of agency: “David is making a cup of tea.” These are different kinds of compatible explanations which focus on  equally real and significant aspects of a single phenomena. The laws of physics and chemistry are not suspended or contravened by a personal description in any way. Theology offers a description of the origins and purpose of life in terms of the personal agency of God.

 

 

Does this insight help you understand the way science and theology connect?

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

Talk about different levels of understanding as you brew a cup of coffee or make tea!

 

 

Tags: understanding

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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