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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prologue: Genesis for the third millennium | |
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| The Spiritual Quest in the New World of Science | |
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| The contemporary challenge of science to religious beliefs | |
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| The 'two cultures' and the dominance of science | |
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| The spiritual life of scientists | |
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| The rise of science | |
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| The forging of Christian belief through past challenges | |
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| The challenge of the scientific culture to religion today | |
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| Science and the future of theology | |
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| The intellectual reputations of science and theology | |
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| Science withstands the postmodernist critique | |
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| Evolution and human rationality | |
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| Reasonableness through inference to the best explanation | |
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| Theology at the crossroads | |
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| Exploring from Science Towards God: New Vistas, Challenges and Questions | |
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| The world as it is | |
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| That the world is | |
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| God and time | |
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| The world: one and many | |
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| Whole-part influences in the world | |
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| The flow of information in the world | |
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| The world-as-a-whole: a System-of-systems | |
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| A lawlike world--no intervention | |
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| A world containing inherently unpredictable events | |
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| Brains, minds and persons in the world | |
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| Communication between persons in the world | |
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| The world in process | |
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| The epic of evolution | |
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| The physical origin of the universe | |
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| The origin of life | |
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| The anthropic principle | |
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| The duration of evolution | |
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| The mechanism of biological evolution--natural selection | |
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| The process of chance and law (necessity) | |
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| The emergence of humanity | |
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| Human behaviour | |
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| Trends and directions in evolution? | |
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| The ubiquity of pain, suffering and death | |
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| The evolution of life and our exploration towards God | |
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| Evolution: a risky process? | |
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| God's interaction with the world | |
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| The problem | |
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| Predictability and causality | |
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| 'Chaotic' systems and divine action | |
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| Quantum events and divine action | |
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| Whole-part influence and God's interaction with the world | |
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| God as 'personal agent' in the world | |
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| The sound of sheer silence | |
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| God, human experience and revelation | |
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| How does God communicate with humanity? | |
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| The End of All Our Exploring | |
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| An open theology | |
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| 'In him we live and move and have our being' | |
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| Immanence: a theistic naturalism | |
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| Panentheism | |
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| The world as sacrament | |
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| The instrumental and symbolic relation of God and humanity to the world | |
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| The world as an instrument of God's purposes | |
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| The world as a symbol of God's purposes | |
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| A congruence between the scientific and sacramental perspectives | |
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| Arriving where we started | |
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| The Wisdom of God | |
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| The Word, the Logos, of God | |
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| The uncreated energies of God | |
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| Knowing the place for the first time | |
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| Vistas of the end? | |
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| A global perspective | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| A contemporary Christian understanding of sacrament | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Supplementary reading | |
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| Index | |