Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins and Hitchens, to explore how religion has always played a valuable part in human culture and far from being dismissed as redundant, must be allowed to temper and develop scientific understanding in order for us to be fully human. Ranging around the world to draw comparisons from different cultures, and delving deep into the history of language and of western civilisation, Jonathan Sacks shows how the predominance of science-oriented thinking is embedded deeply even in our religious understanding, and calls on us to recognise the centrality of relationship to true religion, and thus to see how this core value of relationship is essential if we are to avoid the natural tendency for science to rule our lives rather than fulfilling its promise to set us free.
- ISBN10 144470303X
- ISBN13 9781444703030
- Publish Date 7 July 2011 (first published 23 June 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint Hodder Faith
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook
- Pages 384
- Language English