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The big question : why we can't stop talking about science, faith, and God / Alister McGrath

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martins Press, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 264 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781250077929
  • 1250077923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.65 23
LOC classification:
  • BL240.3 .M438 2015
Contents:
1. From Wonder to Understanding: Beginning a Journey -- 2. Stories, Pictures and Maps: Making Sense of Things -- 3. Theory, Evidence and Proof: How Do We Know What Is True? -- 4. Inventing the Universe: Our Strange World -- 5. Darwin and Evolution: New Questions for Science and Faith -- 6. Souls: On Being Human -- 7. Quest for Meaning and the Limits of Science -- 8. Empirical Ethics? Science and Morality -- 9. Science and Faith: Making Sense of the World---Making Sense of Life.
Summary: "Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath criticizes the evangelism of the New Atheists and paves a logical well-argued road to the compatibility between science and faith, "--Amazon.com
Item type: Livre List(s) this item appears in: Carrousel 2023-09-07
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1-Bibliothèque ETEQ BL 240.3 M438 2015 Available ETEQ2199

Bibliogr. (pages 253-255) and index

1. From Wonder to Understanding: Beginning a Journey -- 2. Stories, Pictures and Maps: Making Sense of Things -- 3. Theory, Evidence and Proof: How Do We Know What Is True? -- 4. Inventing the Universe: Our Strange World -- 5. Darwin and Evolution: New Questions for Science and Faith -- 6. Souls: On Being Human -- 7. Quest for Meaning and the Limits of Science -- 8. Empirical Ethics? Science and Morality -- 9. Science and Faith: Making Sense of the World---Making Sense of Life.

"Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath criticizes the evangelism of the New Atheists and paves a logical well-argued road to the compatibility between science and faith, "--Amazon.com

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