Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue - Brossura

Polkinghorne, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1563381095 ISBN 13: 9781563381096

Casa editrice: Trinity Press International, 1995

Riassunto

Although now an Anglican priest and head of one of the prestigious colleges in Cambridge University, John Polkinghorne has spent most of his adult life working as a theoretical physicist. He is therefore uniquely qualified to set forth the relationship between science and religion in a way that takes the two disciplines seriously.
Professor Polkinghorne argues that the habits of thought that are natural to the scientist are the same habits of thought that can be followed in the search for a wider and deeper kind of truth about the world. He calls this "bottom-up" thinking, that is, starting not with general principles but with the particularity of experience, and asking what is sufficient to explain the phenomena and give an understanding of what is going on.
Serious Talk begins with the search for an acceptable meeting point for science and religion. Following this are examinations of specific theological issues approached in the spirit of such a meeting point: creation, the role of chance, God's engagement with time, the anticipation of a destiny awaiting humanity beyond death, and the end of the universe.

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L'autore:

John Polkinghorne is President of Queens College in Cambridge University.

John Polkinghorne is the president of Queen's College, Cambridge and the author of Reason and Reality (Trinity), Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue (Trinity), and The End of the World and the Ends of God (Trinity).

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• Editore: Trinity Press International
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1563381095
• ISBN 13: 9781563381096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128