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Loading... The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion (original 2000; edition 2000)by Barbara Brown Taylor
Work InformationLuminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor (2000)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Wish I had read this earlier; but then, I might not have been ready to understand. While I always enjoy Taylor's clear prose and heart-centered theology, I found this slender volume to be a bit thin on content. She makes some important (and probably in some circles radical) connections between Christian belief and the latest scientific thought, but without a broader background in science (and especially chaos theory) she can't go very far. Still, worthwhile. no reviews | add a review
In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith. She seeks to discover why scientists sound like poets and why physicists use the language of imagination, ambiguity, and mystery also found in scripture. In explaining why the church should care about the new insights of science, Taylor suggests ways we might close the gap between spirit and matter, between the sacred and the secular. We live in the midst of a "web of creation" where nothing is without consequence and where all things coexist, even in such a way that each of us changes the world, whether we know it or not. In this luminous web faith and science join on a single path, seeking to learn the same truths about life in the universe. "For a moment," Taylor writes, "we see through a glass darkly. We live in the illusion that we are all separate 'I ams.' When the fog finally clears, we shall know there is only One." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)261.55Religions Christian church and church work Church and the world; Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and secular disciplines Mathematics And ScienceLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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