Academic papers at the interface of Reformed theology and contemporary physics — on the methodological conditions for honest theological engagement with speculative science, and the doctrine of creation in conversation with emergent-spacetime research.
iD ORCID 0009-0008-2426-9713Finitism in the philosophy of religion in conversation with discrete-spacetime research programs in fundamental physics.
Creatio ex nihilo and creatio continua in conversation with cosmological models that begin without a singularity.
A paper in the philosophy of physics on what emergent-spacetime research programs are committed to describing.
Theological engagement with physics increasingly concerns speculative research programs rather than established science, yet the methodological literature of the science-and-religion field offers postures rather than procedures, and guards against none of the failure modes that engagement invites. This article proposes an operational method, conditional consonance, comprising five components: explicit conditionalization of all consonance claims on named research programs; a three-register linguistic discipline; five demarcation firewalls adapted from recent philosophy of pseudoscience; a source discipline distinguishing common-grace insight from authoritative testimony; and a mandatory dissonance ledger. A worked case demonstrates the method discriminating between pedagogical value and evidential standing in a popular but unrefereed source. The method renders frontier engagement honest rather than forbidden.
How emergent-gravity research programs sharpen, rather than dissolve, the Leibnizian question of why there is anything at all.
Matter as topologically protected pattern, the stability of created things, and the metaphysics of bodily resurrection.
A structural parallel between nucleation physics and the Incarnation — handled strictly as model, never as mechanism.
These papers form a single research program: each defends one load-bearing claim of a larger project on science and faith, under an explicit methodological protocol that the method paper in the series supplies. A book-length synthesis, Reasonable Wonder, is written and seeking a publisher.