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Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion







Barbara Brown Taylor

Cowley Publications, 2000 - 109 pages

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Science and Relgion can coexist

One of the most lucid and reasoned disussions of science and religion that you'll find. I've read a number of the new science books, but by the end she had me. Not just a reasoned approach but a personal and moving account as well.


Profoundly rewarding reading.

In The Luminous Web, Barbara Taylor describes her own journey as an Episcopal priest (holding the Harry R. Butman Chair in Religion and Philosophy at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia) trying to learn what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach the Christian believer. In explaining why the church should care about the new discovers and insights into the physical world that modern science has to offer, Taylor suggest ways that Christians might close the gap between spirit and matter, between the secular and the sacred. The Luminous Web is profoundly rewarding reading.


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Many Great Points

This book is by Barbara Brown Taylor, and I highly recommend it.

Taylor is an Episcopal priest who has made a study of certain frontier areas of science like evolution and cosmology. In this book, she looks at what she learned from the perspective of how science and religion interact or the boundaries separating them (if any).

It appears to me that she sees less separating than a lot of scientists might. I am on her side on this.

Although I really liked the book, I did find that the last chapter went off the edge a few times. For one thing, she seems to equate Heisenberg's principle with the observer effect which I think is scientifically incorrect. Fortunately, this does not seem to prevent her from reaching some reasonable conclusions.

Despite a few flaws, the book does raise many interesting questions and even suggests some answers of sorts that greatly satisfy. Highly recommended!


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From Science to Religion and Back...

After hearing Prof Taylor's sermons and lectures, I needed to wade thru her Essays on Science and Religion. Especially true, when I read three widely divergent reviews ... It seemed that any review title using the Metaphor of "Like a Black Hole," was a bit too outlandish for anything our knowledgeable Prof. Taylor could conjure up to print!

In my first encounters with references to Albert Einstein, then Robert John Russell and James McCord before noting Sir John Templeton on the same page... she then uses humorist Will Rogers' quote, "We're all ignorant, just on different subjects." She introduces Richard Feynman, one of our century's charismatic physicists, plus one of my generation who is familar to any native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee! She then proceeds to move thru the shortest chapter "The Evolution of Praise" heavy with the writers of Science.

My favorite, most heavily under-lined Chapter is, "The Physics of Communion." After her statements from Albert Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus and Newton, she touches upon Niels Bohr, George Johnson, Fred Burnham, John Polkinghorne, even Alan Watts, Bennett Sims and Paul Tillich. How's that for a multi-colored team of biologists, mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, theologians and scientists? When Professor Taylor does her homework there is no such metaphor as that Black Hole!

For me it is her 'Way-Out-of-the-Box' book worth 5 golden stars!


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An introduction to the contemporary debate between science and religion. The author describes her journey as a preacher who is trying to learn what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach the believer.


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