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Knowing the Unknowable

Name: Knowing the Unknowable
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 9781845117573
Price: 77237 HUF
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Science and the Religions on God and the Universe

Szerző: John Bowker

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Albert Einstein once remarked that behind all observable things lay something quite unknowable. And...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

John Bowker

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2008

oldal

292

EAN

9781845117573

ISBN

1845117573

Enbook ID

05096373

Kiadó

Bloomsbury Publishing

Súly

482

Méretek

218 x 147 x 28

Teljes leírás

Albert Einstein once remarked that behind all observable things lay something quite unknowable. And the motivation for his own work in physics stemmed from something as apparently innocuous as his father first showing him a compass when he was a boy. Yet, the wonder and inspiration of that moment, which he never forgot, led ultimately to his own stupendous scientific breakthroughs.This book explores that special territory perceived by Einstein: where the unknown takes over from everything that is understandable, familiar, explicable. And, that interface between known and unknown is of the very greatest importance: it lies at the heart of the human quest to take knowledge beyond the boundaries of the known. It is what scientists do when they undertake their research, from the trajectories of comets to the replication of cells. But it is also what religious people do when they start to explore their relationship with what they perceive as the divine. Their mutual effort to 'know the unknowable' is a profoundly important way in which human beings explore the limits of themselves, as well as of the universe.Bringing together distinguished contributors, both scientists and theologians (including Rowan Williams the current Archbishop of Canterbury), to explore the implications of what such an invitation means in practice, this groundbreaking book explores important topics like cosmological absence, negativity in Christian mysticism, and the 'hiddenness' of God in Buddhism.