God for the 21st Century

by Russell Stannard

Book Overview

A collection of short essays on themes in science and religion, drawn from leading figures from around the world, including John Polkinghorne, Fraser Watts, Arthur Peacocke, John Habgood and Keith... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890151394
• ISBN13: 9781890151393
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

God Is The Question And The Answer

I am surprised that there are not any previous reviews of this book. I would think that this subject would be of utmost interest to a very great share of human beings. For there is no way we can come to an ultimate understanding of ourselves unless we come to some understanding of God. Questioning ourselves about God is thus questioning ourselves about our own ultimate meaning and destiny. Among the topics covered are: Creation and evolution Life on other planets Genetic engineering Faith and medicine The mind and the soul Quantum physics Among the contributors are Paul Davies, Robert Jastrow, Rod Davies, Owen Gingerich, Cyril Domb, Kitty Ferguson, Gregg Easterbrook, Sir John Haughton. The editor Ronald Stannard contributes an essay on the paradoxes of Science and Religion. Some of the essays are challenging philosophically and a bit difficult to understand. But on the whole the work is clear and readable and provides a rich variety of insights on a broad range of cosmically interesting subjects. A number of them integrate the Science and Religion and may seem a kind of apologetics. One of the most impressive set of essays points to the idea that conceiving the Universe without a Creator is perhaps even more impossible than conceiving the Universe as having a Creator. I believe any person who is obsessed about ultimate questions will profit by reading this book.