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Title: Science and Creation( The Search for Understanding) Binding: Paperback Author: JohnC.Polkinghorne Publisher: TempletonFoundationPressRead More

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    The second volume of a trilogy written by an internationally renowned priest-scientist, this book addresses fundamental questions about how scientific and theological worldviews relate to each other. It illustrates how a scientifically minded...

  • Book Description

    “For far too long the science-religion debate has been dominated—even

    clouded—by questions of biological evolution thrown up in the nineteenth
    century, while the transformation of the physical world in the twentieth has
    often seemed strangely irrelevant. This book epitomizes a welcome trend to
    redress the balance. . . . [It] is to be warmly recommended to all who seek
    to enrich the dialogue between science and theology.â?—C. A. Russell, Science
    & Christian Belief
    John C. Polkinghorne, internationally renowned priest-scientist, addresses
    fundamental questions about how scientific and theological worldviews
    relate to each other in this, the second volume (originally published in
    1988) of his trilogy, which also included Science and Providence and One World.
    Dr. Polkinghorne illustrates how a scientifically minded person
    approaches the task of theological inquiry, postulating that there exists a
    close analogy between theory and experiment in science and belief and
    understanding in theology. He offers a fresh perspective on such questions
    as: Are we witnessing today a revival a natural theology—the search for God
    through the exercise of reason and the study of nature? How do the insights
    of modern physics into the interlacing of order and disorder relate to the
    Christian doctrine of Creation? What is the relationship between mind
    and matter?
    Polkinghorne states that the “Remarkable insights that science affords
    us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation
    more profound than that which it itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take
    seriously its claim that the world is the creation of God, must be humble
    enough to learn from science what that world is actually like.The dialogue
    between them can only be mutually enriching.�

  • 1599471000
  • 9781599471006
  • J.C. Polkinghorne
  • 30 January 2007
  • Templeton Foundation Press (Div. of John Templeton
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 152
  • New edition
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