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When Drew began the series What Kind of God? we decided that, at least for this week, I’d take the role of the Devil’s Advocate (DA). Drew disavowed natural theology, but I still sense its presence lurking around the edges of the question, What Kind of God?
It strikes me as noteworthy that our culture is taking recourse in the grandeur and scope of words that only theological language can supply. Responding to climate change is at the place where our Christian tradition meets science meets Christian spirituality. We need to recover the biblical language of “stewardship” for this beautiful creation.
Collins is the voice par excellence of faith and science integration. How to summarize his work? I can’t adequately. Instead, I turn to two of his most memorable quotations (which, admittedly, I often use in science and faith talks when I’m searching for something wise to say)…
This week (and next) I’m focusing on a pair of your highest rated thinkers from our summer audience survey: N.T. Wright and Rachel Held Evans. Their thoughts on science and religion have shaped our imaginations and clearly some of yours as well.
What is especially amazing is that Lewis’s and Pascal’s observations are backed up not only by a long history of scientists and philosophers, but also by the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), “which investigates how human cognitive systems inform and constrain religious thought, experience, and expression.”