Buddhism and Science for the Perplexed
Donald S. Lopez is interested not only in the “what happened” of the Buddhist encounter with science, but in the “how” and “why” of the various encounters.
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From Quantum Mechanics to the Eucharistic Meal: John Polkinghorne’s ‘Bottom-up’ Vision of Science and Theology
As a scientist theologian, Polkinghorne has long wrestled with the topic of God’s action in the world. Interventionism or supernaturalism is dismissed, in favor of a concept of “pure information.”
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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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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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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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Buddhism and Postmodernism
Park expertly negotiates the interfaces between the modern and the postmodern, between East and West, between philosophy/religion and ethics, and between deconstruction and re-construction, among the many other domains that Buddhism and Postmodernity covers.
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A Review of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion
With regard to the perennial problem concerning the mind-brain relationship, Jeeves and Brown provide a fair description of the various historical and contemporary views while setting forth their own position.
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The Spirit Hovers Over the World
Christian theological thinking on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit raises questions about the relationship between “spirit” and science. There are a wide array of uses of the concept of spirit. This essay presents a preliminary typology of such uses.