Exploring Reality
John C PolkinghornePaperback 2005-01-01
Many things altered in my life when I changed from being a physicist and became a priest, but one significant thing remained the same: the central importance of the search for truth. All my life I have been trying to explore reality. That exploration includes science, but it also takes me necessarily beyond it’.
A fascinating and absorbing book, accessible even to those readers without a scientific or theological background, John Polkinghorne draws on his own wide-ranging experience as physicist and priest to investigate how both spirituality and science contribute to our understanding of the ‘reality’ in which we live. While looking at many features of our modern, material lives, he explores what it means to be human, and how a crucial search for truth - whether scientific of theological - is to our existence.
Using as entry-points issues of contemporary concern (such as genetic ethics, as well as attitudes between different faiths), Dr Polkinghorne examines what it means to be truly human. He ends this compelling exploration of the beliefs behind our modern lives with an enlightening discussion on the scientific possibilities of a life after death.
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This book continues the exploration of Christian theology through the prism of scientific enquiry, examining in particular the human reality of god in Jesus Christ, the diversity of human perspectives and the moral challenges of human life, including the difficulties of applying ethical principles in the novel and unprecedented situations presented by current scientific advances. The book covers a brad spectrum of current scientific thinking, including the nature of time and reality, and quantum theory, chaos theory and the relationship between them, but the author undertakes not to use ideas without offering a non-technical explanation of them!
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Many things altered in my life when I changed from being a physicist and became a priest, but one significant thing remained the same: the central importance of the search for truth. All my life I have been trying to explore reality. That exploration includes science, but it also takes me necessarily beyond it’.
A fascinating and absorbing book, accessible even to those readers without a scientific or theological background, John Polkinghorne draws on his own wide-ranging experience as physicist and priest to investigate how both spirituality and science contribute to our understanding of the ‘reality’ in which we live. While looking at many features of our modern, material lives, he explores what it means to be human, and how a crucial search for truth - whether scientific of theological - is to our existence.
Using as entry-points issues of contemporary concern (such as genetic ethics, as well as attitudes between different faiths), Dr Polkinghorne examines what it means to be truly human. He ends this compelling exploration of the beliefs behind our modern lives with an enlightening discussion on the scientific possibilities of a life after death.
Publisher.
Publisher Description
This book continues the exploration of Christian theology through the prism of scientific enquiry, examining in particular the human reality of god in Jesus Christ, the diversity of human perspectives and the moral challenges of human life, including the difficulties of applying ethical principles in the novel and unprecedented situations presented by current scientific advances. The book covers a brad spectrum of current scientific thinking, including the nature of time and reality, and quantum theory, chaos theory and the relationship between them, but the author undertakes not to use ideas without offering a non-technical explanation of them!