Metanexus: Views 2001.12.27 2056 words Willem Drees asserts that religions emerged in confrontation with the powerof storms, of the sea and the mountains, thunder and lightning. Whenconfronted with unpredictable events we still use animistic language. Weeven do so in our dealings with technological products; the car ‘does notwant’ to start and the computer ‘does not…
Metanexus: Views 2001.12.18 2743 words According to the Dutch theologian Willem Drees, “A creation story begins with the beginning. But we do not know our realityas a film shown to us from the first scene onwards. Our situation resemblesthe predicament of archaeologists. We find traces and clues – and seek tounderstand the past. In that…
Metanexus: Views 2001.12.17 2435 words “Humans have told each other stories for thousands of years. At campfiresand in courts and temples, humans told stories about the origin of theirworld, of the hunting grounds of their tribe, of women and men, of thediscovery of wheat and of fire, of the sun and the moon. Creation storiesexpressed…
A review of John A. Jungerman’s “World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics.”
Review of Russell Stannard’s The God Experiment: Can Science Prove the Existence of God? Mawhah, NJ: Mindspring. 1999. The Prayer Experiment Stannard’s overarching view is that science and religion have very much in common. Science is a little more experimentally ambiguous, tentative and broadly inferential than we commonly think and theology is more empirically…
We interact with the world on several planes and in different modes: the psychological, the spiritual, the emotional, the rational, and the sensual. These are not fully separable aspects of our being, and we all of us have a minimum of each of these potentials. During life’s experiences, depending on the context, one or more…
Bismi-Llahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim I begin this address by pronouncing the traditional sentence “in the name of God the Compassionate the All-Merciful”. With this formula, the Muslims initiate all the ritual acts of their religious life, and also all the important acts of their everyday life which consequently acquire a sacred value. Before each act, I should always…
Time is the most insubstantial element of human consciousness that is experienced very profoundly. It seems to be with us all through our waking hours, apparently drifting silently and unhaltingly out there in the external world as well as within the very core of our being. Each one of us tastes a slice of time…
A review of Anthony T. Massimini’s The New Dance of Christ: Discovering Our Spiritual Self in a New, Evolving World (Xlibris Corporation/Random House; Philadelphia, 2000; 280 pages; ISBN 073-882795-9) Despite its seemingly precious title and un-academic cover, this is a very ambitious work. Dr. Massimini sets out to paint a unifying vision of reality that…
Metanexus:Views 2001.10.03 3664 words When we here at Metanexus talk about the nexus of science and religion, whatexactly are we talking about? The connection, the joining, or the fasteningof science and religion are all possible interpretations of the term “nexus”in this regard, with each interpretation positing a different level ofengagement. But what do we actually…