Our cats woke me up at 5:15 a.m. Sunday…no, check that: at 4:15 a.m Sunday (clock change!). Thought I’d make the best of it by starting “Anthony Flew’s” new book (I will explain the “scare-quotes” in a moment). The book just jumped off the bookstore shelf. It is called: There is A God: How the…
Gerard Mannion asks in a recent essay in The Tablet whether natural law is such a good idea (20 October 2007, pp. 12-13). The way he sometimes describes it, you might not think so. Mannion is commenting on Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the International Theological Commission in Rome on October 5, 2007. In his…
The Metanexus Institute Metanexus is an institute, a movement, and an idea. As a member-supported institute, our mission is to promote the constructive engagement of science, religion and the humanities in the common—and, alas today, un-common—pursuit of wisdom in order to address humanity’s most profound questions and challenges. We operate at both the local and…
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? –T. S. Eliot “The Rock” 1934 Always be ready to give an answer when someone asks you about your hope. –1 Peter 3:151 “Perhaps most importantly, we must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves…
The 20th century may very well come to be considered the “age of hyper-specialization.” Through the increasing division of labor—both economic and intellectual—humans have certainly made enormous progress. We see the acceleration of specialization not only in industry, but in higher education as well. Does hyper-specialization, however, with its intensification of complexity and multiplication of…
The Local Societies Initiative program funded its first dialogue groups in the fall of 2001. Since then, members of over 100 societies from around the world have joined the global network dedicated to fostering the constructive engagement of science and religion. As the program enters its fourth year, it is a good time to reflect…