Preface
Part I. Preliminaries
- 1. Introduction
  - 1.1 Theistic postulates
  - 1.2 Theism and science
  - 1.3 Laying the foundations
- 2. A Short History of Theistic Ideas
  - 2.1 Greek philosophical foundations
  - 2.2 Christian theism
  - 2.3 The scientific revolution
  - 2.4 Insights and critiques
  - 2.5 Creation and evolution
  - 2.6 Consciousness and process
  - 2.7 Quantum influences
- 3. A Way Forward
  - 3.1 Conflict or integration?
  - 3.2 Changes to science
  - 3.3 Changes to theology
  - 3.4 Religious scriptures
  - 3.5 New frameworks
  - 3.6 Authority and evidence
Part II. Ontology
- 4. Power and Substance
  - 4.1 Substance
  - 4.2 Dispositions
  - 4.3 Scientific analyses of powers or dispositions
  - 4.4 Dispositions in nature
  - 4.5 The proposed ontology
  - 4.6 Discussion
  - 4.7 Quantum physics
  - 4.8 Dispositions in psychology
  - 4.9 Intentionality of the mental
- 5. Multiple Generative Levels
  - 5.1 Beyond simple dispositions
  - 5.2 Derivative dispositions
  - 5.3 Physical derivative dispositions
    - 5.3.1 Hamiltonians, wave functions and measurements
    - 5.3.2 Virtual and actual processes
    - 5.3.3 Pregeometry and the generation of spacetime
  - 5.4 Psychological derivative dispositions
  - 5.5 Analysis of generative sequences
    - 5.5.1 Principal, Instrumental and Occasional causes
    - 5.5.2 Causal sequences in physics
    - 5.5.3 Conditional Forward Causation
- 6. A Dynamic Ontology
  - 6.1 Dispositions as units of understanding
    - 6.1.1 Generation + selection as a pattern
    - 6.1.2 Mentality as desire-thought-action
  - 6.2 History of substance
  - 6.3 Natural laws?
  - 6.4 Philosophy of levels
  - 6.5 Identity, change and essence
Part III. A Scientific Theism
- 7. Plan of Approach
- 8. The ‘I am’
  - 8.1 Being itself
  - 8.2 Assertions that ‘God is X itself’
  - 8.3 The Argument from Being
  - 8.4 Consequences
- 9. God is Not Us
  - 9.1 Unselfish love
  - 9.2 Selflessness and personal unselfishness
  - 9.3 God is good
  - 9.4 The Argument from Love
  - 9.5 Combining the Arguments from Being and Love
  - 9.6 Analogical and literal language
- 10. Images of God
- 11. God is Love
  - 11.1 Love Itself
  - 11.2 Love and substance
  - 11.3 Love and thought
  - 11.4 Summary
- 12. God is Life Itself
  - 12.1 Life
  - 12.2 Life of created beings
  - 12.3 But we do appear to live!
  - 12.4 Appropriating life
- 13. God is both Simple and Complex
- 14. God is Wisdom and Action
  - 14.1 Knowing causes and loves
  - 14.2 Abstract knowledge
  - 14.3 Divine Wisdom
  - 14.4 Relating Love and Wisdom
  - 14.5 God as the source of our own understanding
  - 14.6 God is Action
  - 14.7 A triad within God
- 15. God is Transcendent and Immanent
  - 15.1 Transcendence
  - 15.2 Immanence
  - 15.3 Omnipotence
  - 15.4 Eternity
- 16. We Act Sequentially
  - 16.1 Time
  - 16.2 Foreknowledge
  - 16.3 The future
  - 16.4 Freedom
- 17. We are Composite, as Spiritual, Mental and Physical
  - 17.1 Retaining life
  - 17.2 Spiritual, mental and physical
  - 17.3 Realms
- 18. We are Sustained by Influx From God, Directly and Indirectly
  - 18.1 Spiritual, mental and physical operations
  - 18.2 Is this occasionalism?
  - 18.3 Multiple spaces and discrete degrees
  - 18.4 Consequences of discreteness
  - 18.5 Direct and indirect life from God
  - 18.6 Influx
  - 18.7 Consciousness
- 19. God is Equally Present in All Subparts
  - 19.1 Subparts as enneads
  - 19.2 Explorations
- 20. The Theistic Universe
  - 20.1 Support for the dynamic ontology
  - 20.2 Life from God
  - 20.3 Mirrored functions as correspondences
  - 20.4 Persons and their identity
  - 20.5 Intentionality
  - 20.6 Law and divine intervention
Part IV. Theistic Science
- 21. Methods
  - 21.1 Beginning theistic science
  - 21.2 Methodology of levels
- 22. Discrete Degrees in the Mind
  - 22.1 Minds
  - 22.2 Microscopic mentality
  - 22.3 Whole-person mentality
  - 22.4 Order of production vs order of growth
  - 22.5 Substructures
  - 22.6 Stages of emotional development
- 23. Spiritual Discrete Degrees
  - 23.1 What is the spiritual?
  - 23.2 Common misconceptions
  - 23.3 Sub-degrees of the spiritual
  - 23.4 Spirituality in life
  - 23.5 Heavenly states
- 24. Discrete Degrees in Nature
  - 24.1 Physical sub-degrees
  - 24.2 Sub-sub-degrees of the physical
  - 24.3 Existing physics
  - 24.4 Selections: new physics?
  - 24.5 Pre-geometry: new physics?
- 25. Mind-body Connections
  - 25.1 Relations between degrees
  - 25.2 Mind-body connections
  - 25.3 Correspondences
  - 25.4 Distinct minds and bodies
  - 25.5 Spiritual-natural relations
  - 25.6 The human (functional) form
Part V. Applications
- 26. Evolution
  - 26.1 Causal explanations
  - 26.2 God needs evolution
  - 26.3 Descent by modification
  - 26.4 Why evolution is true
  - 26.5 Evidence
- 27. Consciousness
  - 27.1 The hard problem
  - 27.2 Awareness
  - 27.3 What awareness is not
  - 27.4 Awareness in animals and plants
  - 27.5 Timing issues
  - 27.6 Parapsychology
- 28. Spiritual Growth
  - 28.1 The need for spiritual growth
  - 28.2 Permanent development
  - 28.3 What spiritual growth is not
  - 28.4 Stages of spiritual growth
- 29. Errors and Evils
  - 29.1 The problem of evil
  - 29.2 Mackie’s logical problem of evil
  - 29.3 Divine versus Absolute omnipotence
  - 29.4 Real questions
Part VI. Discussion
- 30. Metaphysics
  - 30.1 Rational theology
  - 30.2 Firsts and lasts
  - 30.3 Rationality and love
  - 30.4 Divine immanence
  - 30.5 Mental dualism
- 31. Formal Modeling
  - 31.1 Is modeling possible here?
  - 31.2 Physical models
  - 31.3 Causal sets
  - 31.4 Associative spaces
  - 31.5 Cognitive and connectionist nets
  - 31.6 Self-aware artifacts?
  - 31.7 The recursively nested hierarchy
- 32. Possible Objections
  - 32.1 Logical formulation
  - 32.2 Philosophy
  - 32.3 Theology
  - 32.4 Psychology
  - 32.5 Biology
  - 32.6 Physics
- 33. Conclusions
- Appendix A. Theistic Postulates
- Appendix B. Further Resources
Bibliography
Index

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