The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Great Partnership Jonathan Sacks sets out a clear and forceful argument for the complementary nature of science and religion, drawing on an eclectic range of historical and philosophical arguments to prove the necessity of both if we are to understand the human condition.
Full description- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Published: 01 December 2011
- Format: Hardback 384 pages
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- Categories: Religion: General | Judaism
- ISBN 13: 9780340995242 ISBN 10: 0340995246
- Sales rank: 38,798
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Full description for The Great Partnership
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.
