A Review of Everybody’s Story by Loyal Rue
In this broad ranging, thought-provoking, and engaging book, in which there is
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Eating Well Together: Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto
“When Species Meet” is a continuation and enlargement of Donna Haraway’s previous book. Both are efforts to do philosophy on the boundaries where species interact and to explore the complex relations between humans and animals.
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Useless Arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths
A review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007. My story begins with the intriguing title of a new book — Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey 2007). The authors are a father and daughter team. The…
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A Catholic Commitment to Process Cosmology: An Appreciation of Joseph Bracken’s Latest Works
Joseph A. Bracken, Christianity and Process Thought: Spirituality for a Changing World (West Conshohocken, PA.: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006) xx + 155 pp. Joseph A. Bracken, God: Three Who Are One, Engaging Theology: Catholic Perspectives series (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2008) xvi + 135 pp. Joseph A. Bracken, Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Intersubjectivity: A New Paradigm…
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Education and Its Discontents
A revew of James K. A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009). There is a growing sense that education, particularly higher education, is in crisis, and books diagnosing the nature of the crisis and offering prescriptions and remedies have become something of a cottage industry. Recent…
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A Catholic Commitment to Process Cosmology
Joseph Bracken’s oeuvre might be read as fulfilling the insatiable quest for answers to the big questions that have perennially moved the human spirit.
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Crouch and Culture: Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling
The Christian religion is a paradox. The kingdom of God, the New Testament tells us, is not of this world, yet the transcendent and spiritual God condescended and embodied himself in this world, inaugurating a message of a heavenly kingdom that was to be spread by earthly labor. The physical and metaphysical are inextricably woven…
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A Review of Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-Created World by Noreen Herzfeld. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2009, vii +161 pp., $17.95.
This is the third volume just issued in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series of Templeton Press. It is part of the ever-growing body of works on the relationship between religion and technology, and should be welcomed as a fine addition to this body. The author, Noreen Herzfeld, is uniquely qualified for the task,…
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A Review of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature by Malcolm Jeeves and Warren S. Brown, West Conshohocken: Templeton Foundation Press, 2009, viii + 160 pp., $17.95.
This book provides an excellent and very accessible overview of the state-of-the-question at the intersection of the cognitive sciences, psychology, and religion. Jeeves, who is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews and the author of many books on science and religion in general and on psychology and Christian faith in particular,…
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A Review of Living Up to Death by Paul Ricoeur, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 132 pp., $22.50.
In recent years there have been a number of publications written shortly before the author’s death. I am thinking of Jacques Derrida’s Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (2007), Dorothee Soelle’s The Mystery of Death (2007) and now the book under review. What the three works have in common is that each presents a…