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Nature, Reality, and the Sacred

The Nexus of Science and Religion

Nature, Reality, and the Sacred( )
Author: Gilkey, Langdon
Series title:Theology and the Sciences Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8006-2754-6
Publication Date:Feb 1994
Publisher:1517 Media
Imprint:Fortress Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00USD $34.00
Book Description:

Two partial apprehensions of nature vied for dominance in the past century: religious (void of any influence from science) and scientific (unable to admit any reality, beyond the empirical). Both views have led to the exploitation of nature -- and the scientific may prove even more devastating. The fault, Gilkey argues, lies not in the scientific ......

Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Religion & Science
Nature / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.01 x 8.93 x 0.69 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds
Author Biography
Gilkey, Langdon (Author)
Born in Chicago, Langdon Gilkey received his B.A. at Harvard University (1940) and earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University (1954). He has been a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University (1950--51) and has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, the first to Germany in 1960--61, and then to Rome in 1965. Gilkey is currently a professor of theology emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Gilkey's pedagogical concern is in examining the place of religion within a secular culture. With the prevailing appearance of religious sentiments such as fundamentalism, cult practices, meditation, and private ideology, he notes religion to be very much an aspect of our scientific and technological age. The question for our age, Gilkey says, will be "not will religion survive, as much as will we survive and with what sort of religion, a creative or demonic one?"

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