About this title: An addition to the often controversial yet stimulating debate between science and religion, this book explores the parallels and common components of the two fields. The author, who is both a physicist and a member of the clergy, seems particularly well-suited to address the issue.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780300080032ISBN:0300080034
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting and underlining in chapter one. Excellent cover condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 133 p. Terry Lectures (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780300080032ISBN:0300080034
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780300072945ISBN:0300072945
Description: Good in Good jacket. 187-Z Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780300072945ISBN:0300072945
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. 0300072945 The covers have a little shelf wear and some slight soiling. There are stamps on one or two pages throughout the book and a call number sticker on the spine. The book has 133 pages and the dust jacket is black and white with black, white and red lettering. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale University Press: New Haven, CN 1998
Description: Paperback is in fine condition. As new. No dj. Inter-relation of scientific & theological insight is postulated here. 133 pages. read more
"A disappointing read, as I am told by my non-scientist, religious friends that this is a great essay. Don't get me wrong though: Polkinghorne knows his material inside out - both the high energy physics and the theology - and as an introduction to the issues at the heart of the relationship between science and religion (and in particular, Christianity) it is very good.
However, Polkinghorne offers no compelling resolution of the real difficulties between faith and reason in the late 20th (and now 21st) century. At best, this is a 'one-idea' book, the idea being the notion that God somehow pushes quantum probabilities one way rather than another in our Universe, and that is how his action comes about. The problem of the historical placement of Jesus is way too casually brushed over.
"This is a collection of essays on science and Christian faith by John Polkinghorne, F.R.S., a renowned theoretical physicist who subsequently became an Anglican priest. (Polkinghorne won the Templeton Prize in religion and science a few years ago.) I am still pondering some of his reflections, especially his ideas about freedom (in nature) and Calvinist ideas on human freedom and God's providence and sovereignty in all things."
""The poverty of an objectivist account is made only too clear when we consider the mystery of music. From a scientific point of view, it is nothing but vibrations in the air, impinging on the eardrums and stimulating neural currents in the brain. How does it come about that this banal sequence of temporal activity has the power to speak to our hearts of an eternal beauty?
The whole range of subjective experience, from perceiving a patch of pink, to being enthralled by a performance of the Mass in B Minor, and on to the mystic's encounter with the ineffable reality of the One, all these truly human experiences are at the center of our encounter with reality, and they are not to be dismissed as epiphenomenal froth on the surface of a universe whose true nature is impersonal and lifeless." -John Polkinghorne, from Belief in God in an Age of Science"
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