The dialogue between religion and science: Which god?

As exemplified by three cases, difficulties in the dialogue between religio n and science nor. infrequently arise from differing views of God's omnipot ence and omniscience. From the side of theology, reflections on the biblica l and church-related sources of those views, on Auschwitz and the problem o f theodicy, on God as Creator of the universe, and on how to read and inter pret the Bible show that a view of a God who self-limits almightiness and a ll-knowing in order to grant freedom and functional integrity to a Creation about which God cares can be multiply justified. Such a view is not disson ant with regard to a self-organized, open universe, producing "unexpected" emergent features as seen by science.