Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness
Kevin Sharpe's new book,Has Science Displaced the Soul?is a stimulating look at some of the most important issues that lie between science and religion. He approaches these issues with the strength of a scientist and with the conviction of a Christian, having things to say of much value about the natural process and about the physical and spiritual nature of human beings—their hopes and their futures. There is much for us all to learn from this work. (Michael Ruse, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State U)Has Science Displaced the Soul? Debating Love & Happinessis a fascinating and very readable description of how love and happiness can be viewed from both the scientific and religious perspectives. By comparing these two approaches, Kevin Sharpe has illustrated the important differences and similarities between science and religion. This book provides a new and exciting synthesis to the issues of love and happiness and lays a foundation for future studies of love and happiness from both the scientific as well as the religious perspective. (Andrew Newberg, MD, Director of Clinical Nuclear Medicine and Assistant Professor of Radiology at University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He is co-auth)Amid all the triumphal talk in science these days, increasing numbers of individuals have come to believe we are merely the sum total of our genes and DNA. This book is a bold attempt to reconcile clashes such as this that have erupted between science and spiritual thought. Sharpe contends we need contributions frombothscience and spirituality to understand our place in the cosmos. Highly provocative, there is something herein to challenge everyone. (Larry Dossey, MD, Author ofHealing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words)It is a reflection of and a tribute to Sharpe's scholarship that he challenges our contemporary and obsolete manner of conceiving the subject. I look forward to Sharpe and Bryant's future elaboration of the Divine and the dialog that they envision between science, values, and spirituality. (The European Legacy – Toward New Paradigms)