Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&Ne=7048&N=3+6059 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738420 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744313 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545525 Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the fall of Adam. However, an evolutionary view of beginnings doesnt allow for a historical Adam, making evolution seem incompatible with what Genesis and the apostle Paul say about him. For Christians who accept evolution and want to take the Bible seriously, this presents a tension that endangers faith. Peter Enns offers a way forward by explaining how this tension is caused not by the discoveries of science but by false expectations about the biblical texts. Focusing on key biblical passages in the discussion, Enns demonstrates that the author of Genesis and the apostle Paul wrote to ask and answer ancient questions for ancient people; the fact that they both speak of Adam does not determine whether Christians can accept evolution. This thought-provoking book reconciles the teachings of the Bible with the widely held evolutionary view of beginnings and will appeal to anyone interested in the Christianity-evolution debate, including college and seminary students in science and religion courses. -- Publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646970 This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, born in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming across Asia that Buddhism was a form of superstition. He proved the missionaries wrong, teaching a dharma that was in harmony with modern science. And so his influence continues. Today his teaching of mindfulness is heralded as the cure for all manner of maladies, from depression to high blood pressure.In this potent critique, a well-known chronicler of the Wests encounter with Buddhism demonstrates how the Scientific Buddhas teachings deviate in crucial ways from those of the far older Buddha of ancient India. Donald Lopez shows that the Western focus on the Scientific Buddha threatens to bleach Buddhism of its vibrancy, complexity, and power, even as the superficial focus on mindfulness turns Buddhism into merely the latest self-help movement. The Scientific Buddha has served his purpose, Lopez argues. It is now time for him to pass into nirvana. This is not to say, however, that the teachings of the ancient Buddha must be dismissed as mere cultural artifacts. They continue to present a meaningful challenge, even to our modern world--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480975 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649728 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1535743 Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on the future of God. One is an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious -- but respectful -- clash of worldviews that grew with their friendship. In War of the Worldviews, these two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God as they probe the fundamental questions that define the human experience. How did the universe emerge? What is the nature of time? What is life? Did Darwin go wrong? What makes us human? What is the connection between mind and brain? Is God an illusion? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623841 A MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noahs Flood and how the mystery of the Bibles greatest story shaped geology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673231 A Harvard-trained neurosurgeons minute-by-minute account of his own near-death experience, and what he discovered in the heavenly realm beyond life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624039 Two authors--one from the field of physics, the other from the realm of spirituality--debate the most fundamental questions about human existence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669115 Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexanders own bran was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion--and in essence makes us human--shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexanders eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexanders recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. Alexanders story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition. -- Cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624241 In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the worlds most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas that are not only limiting, but also dangerous for the future of humanity -- Front jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1383212 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1402350 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1193042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1098998 More years ago than I care to reckon up, I met Richard Feynman. So begins American master Herman Wouks gem on navigating the divide between science and religion. Told by Feynman that he must first learn the language God talks--calculus--Wouk set in motion a lifelong inquiry. Here, in one rich, compact volume, he draws on stories from his life as well as on key events from the 20th century to address the eternal questions of why we are here, what purpose faith serves, and how scientific fact fits into the picture. He relates wonderful conversations hes had with scientists such as Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Freeman Dyson, and Steven Weinberg, and brings to life such pivotal moments as the 1969 moon landing and the Challenger disaster. Brilliantly written, this is a scintillating and lively investigation.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170348 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1204066 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186279 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1235681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007192 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1137731 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020674 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538513 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003448 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993820 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=753898 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695567 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=967642 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=657771 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=623228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642815 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699768 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566845 In clear, non-technical terms, Judaism, Physics and God leads you through both the basic ideas of modern physics and the ancient wisdom of biblical and rabbinic texts to reveal how religious faith and scientific insight need not be mutually exclusive. Explore with Rabbi David Nelson the wonders of the Big Bang, quantum mechanics, fractals, the butterfly effect, special relativity, and other concepts, and discover how these breakthroughs in modern science can address the essential questions of Jewish spiritual life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592293 This volume is a representative cross-section of the recent thinking of Arthur Peacocke on how to conceive of divine and human relations - broadly, of God as the worlds Creator and the world itself created by God. Such an enterprise has many variegated facets and the various chapters of the book reflect this diversity; the possibility, especially in a sceptical culture, of finding paths from the scientific understanding of the world that can lead and point to God; the need for wisdom in the interpretation of the map of scientific knowledge in relation to its applications; the challenge of culture impressed by the success and standards of the sciences to critical religious thinking; the immense change in the perspective of humanity wrought by Darwins introduction of evolutionary principles; the way in which the traditional dichomy of matter and spirit can be trancended by combining an understanding of the sacramental in the Christian tradition with an evolutionary perspective; and how the re-emergence of emergence as an interpretation of the hierarchy of complexity of the world provides a new resource for understanding in the nature of humanity as thinking persons and of divine action in the world. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=587678 With the rise of modern science, the age-old belief in a universe made by God has been threatened. Can one continue to believe in God, or has religion become an outmoded superstition? Many of our greatest minds have debated these questions, and the drive to reconcile God and science is rife with human drama - murder trials, global journeys, breakthrough discoveries, church schisms, and world wars. This book tells the story of our heroic, optimistic struggle to know the truth, to dare to use all of our faculties and talents to take the measure of God. For over a century, the annual Gifford Lectures have provided the premier venue for the finest scientific and theological minds in the world to speak to all questions about mans conception of God or the Infinite. Endowed in 1887 by Scottish judge Adam Gifford, the Giffords are a window into the conflict between the natural sciences and the claims of religion. The list of Gifford lecturers is a veritable Whos Who of modern scientists, philosophers, and theologians: from William James to Karl Barth, Albert Schweitzer to Reinhold Niebuhr, Niels Bohr to Iris Murdoch, Hannah Arendt to Carl Sagan - and includes eight Noble Prize winners. Some Gifford lecturers have raced to show that science could not possibly undermine religious belief, while others have tried to reconcile science and faith, and even to show that the tools of science - facts and reason - could support knowledge of God. Whether the Gifford lecturers have been scientists or theologians, skeptics or believers, their task has always been to argue whether God exists and how we know. The Measure of God offers the inside story of the genius and drama that have fueled our continuing debate over God and science.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655390 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607076 Reality is multi-layered, asserts the Reverend John Polkinghorne, and in this insightful book he explores various dimensions of the human encounter with reality. Through a well-reasoned and logical process, Polkinghorne argues that reality consists of not only the scientific processes of the natural world but also the personal dimension of human nature and its significance. He offers an integrated view of reality, encompassing a range of insights deriving from physics account of causal structure, evolutionary understanding of human nature, the unique significance of Jesus of Nazareth, and the human encounter with God.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632648 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610767 In 1633, at the end of one of the most famous trials in history, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for contending that the Earth moves and that the Bible is not a scientific authority. Galileos condemnation set off a controversy that has acquired a life of its own and that continues to this day. This book is the first to examine the entire span of the Galileo affair from his condemnation to his alleged rehabilitation by the Pope in 1992. Filled with primary sources, many translated into English for the first time, Retrying Galileo will acquaint readers with the historical facts of the trial, its aftermath and repercussions, the variety of reflections on it throughout history, and the main issues it raises.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538414 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=545865 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459961 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423801 Karl Peters has created an astonishing new dialogue between science and religion. Using insights from evolutionary biology, process theology, and the range of world religions, he proposes that evolution can provide a key to becoming religious. God is like a dance, he says, and by participating in this creative process we are dancing with the Sacred. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434139 Today, biblical literalism is tempered by the Intelligent Design movement, which finds other ways to speak of Gods presence in natures patterns. The once-dominant young earth school is being eclipsed by creationist arguments that invoke mathematics and biochemistry, conscripting the language of science to challenge Darwinian orthodoxy. Evolutionary scientists meanwhile, though perpetually striving for innovation, hesitate to point out gaps in their theories for fear that such self-scrutiny will serve as fodder for anti-evolution propaganda. Tracking the dizzying rhetorical heights and opportunistic political lows of this controversy, Where Darwin Meets the Bible takes us to the very epicenter of the conflict. Drawing on dozens of interviews and eyewitness accounts, and ranging across the country, from California to New York, from Illinois to Tennessee, Larry Witham travels to Americas churches, schools, courts, newsrooms, universities, museums, and government agencies to present creationists and evolutionists in their own unfiltered voices.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418561 We are living at a turning point in human spirituality - akin to when Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed was alive - and Einstein is its prophet. That is the audacious, provocative, and fascinating argument Corey Powell makes in this extraordinary book. Powell dubs the new faith sci/religion and unmasks todays famous battle between science and religion as no more than a myth. Religion has always been where humanity looked to resolve the big issues - be they everyday ones about morality or the overarching questions of the universe. Just a few decades ago, Pope Pius XII described the period explained by the scientific theory of the big bang as the epoch when the cosmos came forth from the Hands of the Creator. Astronomers essentially agreed. This signified a very new relationship between scientists and priests. Indeed, Powell shows how science has completely taken over from theology in answering the overarching questions of the universe. Morality is a secular matter now determined by conversation rather than religious edict. Therefore, Powell contends, sci/religion is the only fully functioning religion now in operation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=421651 The frontier between science and theology has seen much cross-border traffic and the occasional border war. Scientist and priest John Polkinghorne lucidly and accessibly explains the common approaches and what each side has to offer the other. Despite pockets of skepticism and misunderstanding on both sides, Polkinghorne shows, integration of their respective findings remains a viable goal, and exciting vistas can open for both fields.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434457 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431204 This insightful book explores Jewish reactions to cutting-edge biological issues that continue to dominate the headlines. Wahrman addresses these and other questions by examining how Judaism interprets and responds to recent advances in biomedical science. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=380552 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393248 The Hand of God combines inspiration for the mind and spirit by juxtaposing majestic photographs of the cosmos next to illuminating words of scientists, poets, and theologians. It was once believed that to look into the heavens was to look into the face of God. These eerily luminous landscapes, splendid with color and motion, gave a glimpse into the outermost reaches of the universe. Together the images in The Hand of God and the accompanying reflections encourage a sense of awe and, perhaps, purpose in an age often hostile to both. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=368562 Scientists discover more every day about how life developed on Earth. Details that stream in from the new field of molecular biology rival the ongoing findings of paleontologists as they fill in the missing pieces in the fossil record. Professors Stephens and Meldrum, aided by the perspective of a non-scientist, Forrest B. Peterson, review the data for a general Latter-day Saint audience. Their approach comes from a position of faith. They quote from the Creation account in the Pearl of Great Price: And the Gods said: Let us prepare the waters to bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life. And the Gods saw that they would be obeyed and that their plan was good. In the authors view, the passages emphasis on process over end result is consistent with modern science. According to the LDS church, Whether the mortal bodies of man evolved in natural processes to present perfection, or were formed by some other means, is not fully answered in the revealed word of God. That God may have created the mechanism by which all life was formed -- rather than each organism separately -- is a concept that the authors find to be a satisfying and awe-inspiring possibility. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=328888 Adopting a balanced perspective on the subject, Michael Ruse offers a serious examination of both Darwinism and Christianity. He covers a wide range of topics, from the Scopes Monkey Trial to claims about the religious significance of extraterrestrials. He deals with major figures in the current science/religion debate (Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, and E. O. Wilson on the science side, as well as Arthur Peacocke, Robert J. Russell, and Keith Ward on the religion side). He considers in detail the claims of the new creationism and reveals some surprising parallels between Darwinian materialists and traditional thinkers such as Saint Augustine. Michael Ruse argues that, although it is at times difficult for a Darwinian to embrace Christian belief, it is by no means inconceivable. At the same time he suggests ways in which a Christian believer should have no difficulty accepting evolution in general, and Darwinism in particular.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=392517 This fourth volume in the series exploring religions and the environment investigates the role of the multifaceted Hindu tradition in the development of greater ecological awareness in India. The twenty-two contributors ask how traditional concepts of nature in the classical texts might inspire or impede an eco-friendly attitude among modern Hindus, and they describe some grassroots approaches to environmental protection. They look to Gandhian principles of minimal consumption, self-reliance, simplicity, and sustainability. And they explore forests and sacred groves in text and tradition and review the political and religious controversies surrounding Indias sacred river systems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=318432 Over the centuries and into the new millennium, scientists, theologians, and the general public have shared may questions about the implications of scientific discoveries for religious faith. Nuclear physicist and theologian Ian Barbour presents a clear, contemporary introduction to the essential issues, ideas, and solutions in the relationship between religion and science. In simple, straightforward language, Barbour explores the fascinating topics that illuminate the critical encounter of the spiritual and quantitative dimensions of life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=378604 In exclusive interviews, world-renowned scientists discuss such topics as the creation and fine-tuning of the universe, the purpose of life, and the nature of God. A lighthearted tone and multimedia format make this title especially appealing. The best thing I have seen for skeptics.--Donald Cole, Moody Broadcasting. 98 photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=335069 In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientists-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university and discusses the role of revelation in religion. The author examines two related concepts in depth. The first is the divine self-limitation involved in creation that leads to an important reappraisal of the traditional claim that God does not act as a cause among causes. The other is the nature of time and Gods involvement with it, an issue that Polkinghorne shows can link metascience and theological understandings. In the final section of the book, the author reviews three centuries of the science and theology debate and assesses the work of major contemporary contributors to the discussion: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Torrance, and Paul Davies. He also considers why the science-theology discussion has for several centuries been a particular preoccupation of the English.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=325828 With vast new scientific and technological powers, we face unprecedented choices in genetics for which traditional ethics provides little direct guidance. What role can the religious community play in addressing the ethical and theological issues that even scientists now acknowledge as urgent? Chapmans work forges a method for integrating ethical reasoning with scientific data. Focusing on the four issues - genetic science, cloning, patenting of life, and reinterpreting human nature - she reviews and critically assesses resources of Christian traditions and points the way toward a scientifically informed religious ethics built dialogically from concepts in both science and theology.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311066 Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church-sponsored observers. It engagingly describes Galileos political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Despite the Churchs prohibition against advocating sun-centered astronomy, Italian clerics managed to teach and advance it. Heilbron describes, with dry wit, the diplomatic discretion on all sides that allowed them to do so.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434334 Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective offers the first wide-ranging survey of the history of the encounter between evangelical Protestantism and science. Comprising papers by leading historians of science and religion, this collection shows that the questions of science have been central to the history of evangelicalism in the United States, as well as in Britain and Canada. It will be an invaluable resource for understanding the historical context of contemporary political squabbles, such as the debate over the status of creation science and the teaching of evolution.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=261634 In this book, the author focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that these intellectual cousins are both concerned with interpreted experience and with the quest for truth about reality. He argues eloquently that scientific and theological enquiries are parallel.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=108977 In Expect A Miracle, Wakefield starts with miracles in his own life - an improbable recovery from a near-fatal car accident during college and his middle-age recovery from desperate alcoholism - and then weaves a remarkable tapestry of true miracle stories from people he met in his workshops and in travels to Lourdes, Ireland, and throughout the U.S. Representing all walks of life and faith - a factory worker in Ireland, a psychiatrist in Denver, a Buddhist in Berkeley, and a prisoner at Sing-Sing - these miracles range from amazing physical healing to startling bursts of artistic creativity, the abrupt liberation from a long imprisonment of addiction and despair to the unexpected presence of God and deceased loved ones.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=62747 Frank J. Tipler is a major theoretician in the field of global general relativity, the rarefied branch of physics created by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Like most modern scientists, Tipler was an atheist who gave little thought to questions of theology. Yet, in devising a mathematical model of the end of the universe, Tipler came to a stunning conclusion: Using the most advanced and sophisticated methods of modern physics, relying solely on the rigorous procedures of logic that science demands, he had created a proof of the existence of God. Tiplers model of the universal end-time is called the Omega Point Theory. For the last seventeen years, Tipler has explored the implications of the Omega Point Theory, one of which is even more astonishing than the evidence of Gods existence: It is not only possible, but likely, that every human being who ever lived will be resurrected from the dead. As Tipler writes in his preface, he arrived at his proofs of God and immortality in exactly the same way physicists calculate the properties of the electron. In The Physics of Immortality Tipler guides the general reader through the details of his exhilarating discoveries. Displaying an awesome command of disciplines as diverse as computer science, economics, particle physics, cosmology, and evolutionary biology, Tipler constructs a stunningly plausible argument for God and the universal resurrection. Lucid in style, audacious in aim, breathtaking in scope, powerfully argued, and, finally, deeply moving, this is a book that will change the way you think. No reader, whether skeptic or believer, will look at the universe in the same way after encountering this remarkable work.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153299