The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Scientific discoveries can inform and enrich theological perspectives.
- In plain terms
- Science helps theologians understand the world.
- What can you take from it?
- Religious thinkers can learn from scientific findings.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does science change theology?
- What beauty does science reveal?
Another view
Some theological frameworks reject scientific influence entirely.
More from Joseph Silk
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
Permalink to quote #4 Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
Permalink to quote #6 Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smok…
Permalink to quote #3
Related quotes
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceiv…
John HerschelJohn Herschel quote #4 Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr quote #14 Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh quote #64