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Topical Guide: Created Order
Created Order Related Topics
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Order and Contemporary Issues
Biblical Foundations of Order
Theologies of Order
Moral Order
Discerning Moral Order
Created Order Cognates
Created Order in the Christian Tradition
Created Order in Classical Traditions
Disorder
Order and Freedom
Order and Postmodernism
Promoting Order
Order and the Natural World
Political and Social Orders
Economic Order
Order and Ecology
Order and Health
Order in the Arts and Literature
Created Order and Academic Practices
Created Order in the Disciplines
Order and Postmodernism
The structure-agency continuum describes the tension between order and freedom in modernism and postmodernism
Promoting Order
Discussion and collaboration are essential for living well together and discerning the good
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Humility when teaching mirrors Christ’s self-emptying at the incarnation
Promoting moral order means seeking human flourishing; this is more important than following rules
Worship and spiritual practices make us better at promoting the good
Responding to Evil
Markets can make available things that aid human flourishing, but they have no solution to disordered desires
To promote order we need awe at God’s goodness, and horror at the ways evil has marred his creation
We need to sit with people’s trauma before affirming God’s order
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Created Order as the Grounds for Science
Monotheism entails a rational and intelligible cosmos; this is the ground for rational scientific enquiry
Science arose because scholars believed that God had ordered the natural world and this order was discernible through experimentation
Created Order and Naturalism
Against metaphysical anti-realism, the world has real existence outside of human conception of it
Against naturalism, matter and (moral) values are both inherent in creation
The existence of universal natural laws is less plausible in a naturalistic framework
The universe is ordered rationally and we can understand it using reason; this is easier to explain within theism than naturalism
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Order and Quantum Mechanics
Order does not obviate freedom; physical laws permit quantum randomness
Quantum chance is not purely random, but depends upon top-down causation
Order and Artificial Intelligence
AI may be able to reduce human bias in screening for markers of Alzheimer’s Disease
AI’s ability to discern order in nature is limited
Principles for developing AI technology so that it promotes social goods
Political Philosophies
A healthily ordered society will have multiple levels of government and social institutions
Confucian Political philosophy advocates governing by virtue, not force
Freedom is prized in the development of the western political tradition
Hobbes: there is no moral law except for human contracts; the human condition is fundamentally amoral
In a sinful world, states are needed to uphold law and protect the innocent
Order is prized in the development of Chinese political philosophy
There is a tension between rights and virtues in discussions of political participation
International Order
Applying international law most justly may depend on the social or political context
Consensus about what is good can be found or created across cultures because we all exist in the same moral order
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Created moral order governs international relations even when contracts do not exist
How justice can be promoted or subverted through transnational legal orders
International law needs to appeal to some kind of universal moral order to have authority
International Relations is governed by peremptory (fundamental) norms
Is it moral to manufacture weapons to maintain the international order?
It is important to consider religion when seeking to promote international order
The international order has been disrupted in the Ukraine War
Difficulties in Promoting Social Order
Human law is only ever a shadow of divine law
Laws do not overlap with natural morality perfectly; otherwise, states would have to police in highly intrusive ways
Situations may arise where the dictates of God’s moral order conflict with a leader’s obligation to their constituents
Social orders mirror the order of creation imperfectly
There are often tensions between individual and communal interests
Disrupting the Political Order
Christian appeal to created order provides a higher moral authority by which unjust regimes can be critiqued or rebelled against
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How reconciliation should or should not be sought after political conflict
Rebellion against unjust states can be justified in some circumstances
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