The great partnership
Subtitle: God, science and the search for meaning
By: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780340995242
Subjects: Religion and science; Theological anthropology
Description: This book moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins and Hitchens to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture and far from being dismissed as redundant, must be allowed to temper and develop scientific understanding in order for us to be fully human. Ranging around the world to draw comparisons from different cultures, and delving deep into the history of language and of western civilisation, the author shows how the predominance of science-oriented thinking is embedded deeply even in our religious understanding, and calls on us to recognise the centrality of relationship to true religion, and thus to see how this core value of relationship is essential if we are to avoid the natural tendency for science to rule our lives rather than fulfilling its promise to set us free.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.