Faith, Hope and Doubt - Couverture souple

Ellis, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0980325811 ISBN 13 : 9780980325812

Editeur : Digital Publishing Centre, 2008

Synopsis

Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, this lecture asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty? It suggests that human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true nature of morality. It is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis playing a key role because of its transformational qualities.

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Biographie de l'auteur

George FR Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and previous Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics. His professional research work includes relativity theory and cosmology, complexity studies, the functioning of the brain and science policy. His academic positions have included being a university lecturer at Cambridge University and visiting professor at the University of Texas, University of Chicago, University of Hamburg, Boston University, University of Alberta, University of London (Queen Mary) and International School of Advanced Studies (SISA), Trieste. He is a past president of the International Society of Relativity and Gravitation and of the Royal Society of South Africa, and is a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science and of the Royal Society (London). He has been awarded the Star of South Africa Medal by President Nelson Mandela, the Order of Mapungubwe by President Thabo Mbeki, and the Templeton Prize (2004). His books include The large scale structure of space time with Stephen Hawking and On the moral nature of the universe with Nancey Murphy. He joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1974, and has been Chairman of Quaker Service, Western Cape, and of the Quaker Peace Centre Board. He has been Clerk of the Cape Western Monthly Meeting (CWMM) and of Southern African Yearly Meeting (1986-8).

Présentation de l'éditeur

'I propose there is a moral reality as well as a physical reality and a mathematical reality underlying the world and the universe, and that human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true nature of morality. I suggest to nature of that moral reality is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis (''letting go'') playing a key role in the human, moral and spiritual spheres because of its transformational qualities. This is only one of many intimations of transcendence available to us: these entail qualities in which much more than is necessary is present in the real world in which we live, an abundance leading to wonder and reverence as we realize and appreciate them. An integral view of existence takes these qualities into account. I suggest that true spirituality lies in seeing the integral whole, which includes science and all it discovers, but also includes deep views of ethics, aesthetics, and meaning, seeing them as based in and expressing the power of love. Science can be powerful in the service of this integral view, but must not attempt to supplant it.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Digital Publishing Centre
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0980325811
• ISBN 13: 9780980325812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible