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Chapter 5 - Science, Beauty and the Creative Word

from Part II - Beyond ‘Science and Religion’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Janet Soskice
Edited by
Peter Harrison  and
John Milbank
Peter Harrison
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
John Milbank
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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The chapter takes a historical perspective and asks us to consider the long and overlapping concerns of both scientists and religious believers with truth, beauty and creative ordering. Science is no enemy of religion but a casual reductive materialism, often presented in the media under the auspices of ‘science’, and fails to see the sophistication and glory of religious belief that God created all that is (creation ex nihilo), and that this conviction is fully compatible with robust modern science.

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beautytruthcreation ex nihilomaterialismappearingsupernaturalJohn RuskinThomas AquinasRichard Dawkins
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After Science and Religion
Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology
 , pp. 144 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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