When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It
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What are the religious implications of science? How has science affected our interpretations of religious accounts of the origin of the universe and our place in it? What kind of narrative can be framed that is both spiritually satisfying and true to the facts?
Leading scientists, theologians, and other scholars interested in these questions came together at the 1999 Parliament of World's Religions to rethink the story of the universe, human responsibilities in the age of ecocrisis, and the places where science and religion meet. Out of this colloquy of very different voices, there emerges an inspiring new vision of what it means to be human and at home in the cosmos. CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Carlson, Martin Rees, Clifford Matthews, Elisabet Sahtouris, Matt Cartmill, Ronald Clarke, Phillip Tobias, Terrence Deacon, George Johnson, George Ellis, Margaret Wertheim, Tu Weiming, John Grim, Mark Jacobs, Stephen Bede Scharper, Christopher Key Chapple, Stephanie Kaza, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Varadaraja Raman, Pinit Ratanakul, Ingrid Shafe, and Philip Hefner.
About the Author
Clifford Matthews is one of the leading investigators of the origin of life and professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mary Evelyn Tucker teaches religion at Bucknell University. Philip Hefner teaches theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and edits Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion.
When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It,Clifford N. Matthews,Mary Evelyn Tucker,Philip Hefner,Open Court Publishing Company,0812694511,General,Life Sciences - Evolution,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Psychology of Religion,Religion and science,Science,Science/Mathematics,Theology,Philosophy of religion,Science: General Issues,Philosophy & Spirituality
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