The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

Barbara Brown Taylor

The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
25 January 2000
Pages
90
ISBN
9781561011698

The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

Barbara Brown Taylor

In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith. She seeks to discover why scientists sound like poets and why physicists use the language of imagination, ambiguity, and mystery also found in scripture. In explaining why the church should care about the new insights of science, Taylor suggests ways we might close the gap between spirit and matter, between the sacred and the secular. We live in the midst of a web of creation where nothing is without consequence and where all things coexist, even in such a way that each of us changes the world, whether we know it or not. In this luminous web faith and science join on a single path, seeking to learn the same truths about life in the universe. For a moment, Taylor writes, we see through a glass darkly. We live in the illusion that we are all separate ‘I ams.’ When the fog finally clears, we shall know there is only One.

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