A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist also be Religious? - Couverture souple

Burnell, Jocelyn Bell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1459667247 ISBN 13 : 9781459667242

Editeur : ReadHowYouWant, 2013

Synopsis

Can a scientist also be religious? How, and with what limitations? World renowned astronomer and Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on the big issues confronting scientists who also have a strong spiritual belief system. How can the principles of science be reconciled with the faith required by religion? Does scientific investigation call into question the givens of religion? While specific to her Quaker beliefs, Burnell's reflections apply to many other religions as well. This is the 2013 James Backhouse Lecture Series, sponsored by the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia. This lecture describes astronomers' current understanding of the Universe we live in and shows how the lecturer combines her Quakerism and her science.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Ann Evans, one of the most brilliant of Victorian novelists, published under the pen name George Eliot, she said, because she wanted her works to be taken seriously and to distance herself from the women novelists whom she considered silly. She was the assistant editor of the left - leaning Westminster Review, to which she contributed many literary essays. From 1854 on, she lived with G. H. Lewes. By 1859, she was celebrity novelist, and she wrote popular novels for the next 15 years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ReadHowYouWant
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1459667247
• ISBN 13: 9781459667242
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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• Personne responsable: non disponible