A User's Guide to Our Present World: What Everyone Should Know about Religion and Science - Hardcover

Gruning, Herb

 
9781725293021: A User's Guide to Our Present World: What Everyone Should Know about Religion and Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1725293021 ISBN 13: 9781725293021
Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The reader is about to embark on a journey of discovery and perhaps even reckoning. Religion and science have been understood as inherently at odds and inimical toward each other. However, both employ metaphor: religion when it calls the spirit descending upon Jesus a dove, science when it describes electrons as a current flowing through a wire, for only fluids flow and electrons are not a fluid. Both use myths: some religions in the sense that there was a Golden Age of humans in a garden, science when it promises unlimited progress. Both enlist hypothetical entities: some religions when a storm heralds that the gods are angry, science with the existence of a vacuum and a frictionless surface. And each bears its fundamentalist contingent: just observe a debate between creationists and evolutionists and the zeal and fervor with which the Bible and Darwin must be defended at any cost, no matter what. Given all this, it becomes readily apparent that religion and science display more in common than was once expected. And that is precisely what is in peril in the following pages--our expectations. May the intrepid traveler benefit from the voyage.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Herb Gruning is the author of six other works and teaches theological ethics at Huron University College, affiliated with Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has taught courses in religion and science, models of divinity, and human nature, among other topics, on both sides of the US-Canada border. He lives in London with his wife, both of whom are resisting retirement.

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Verlag
Wipf and Stock
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1725293021
ISBN 13 
9781725293021
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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