Natural ReligionFrederick Turner Routledge, 12.07.2017 - 304 Seiten There is widespread belief that the world's religions con- tradict each other. It follows that if one religion is true, the others must be false--an assumption that implies, and may actually create, religious strife. In Natural Religion, acclaimed poet, critic and essayist Frederick Turner sets out to show that the natural world offers grounds for stating that all religions are, in some respect, true. Through the ages, various ways have been proposed to resolve religious differences. Some argue for the destruction of all religions but one's own. Others substitute an abstract principle for the real ritual and moral practice of religion. Still others doubt all religious truth and, consequently, all truth. Others accept a kind of pluralistic relativism. This book explores syncretism, whereby all religions are seen as grasping the same strange and complex reality, but by very different means and handles. The idea that all religions are true raises a supervening question: if so, what must the real physical universe be like? Turner approaches these questions in terms of scientific inquiry. There is not enough room in space itself to fit in all theologies; but there may be enough room in time if new scientific descriptions of time's nature are to be believed. Turner argues that in the time-models of contemporary cosmological and evolutionary science all times may be connected and time may be infinitely branched and causally looped so that both forward-in-time and backward-in-time factors may be in operation in the same event. Thus, the fundamental substance of the universe may be information rather than matter or energy. The universe is more like a vast living organism than a vast machine. Turner argues that all existing religions can be shown to fit into this model, which in turn points to deeper implications of religious doctrines, languages and practices. There would be plenty of "room" in such a view of time for a tree of different yet linked religious w |
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... Mind and Matter Computability and Uncomputability The Three-Computer Universe Psychoanalyzing God 8 A Brief History of God Summary The Early Stages: Nature Gods, Human Gods, and Collective Gods Markets, Cyberspace, and Angels A ...
... minds I have borrowed from in two different ways: as usual for their intellectual help, but in a new way for their personal, moral, and spiritual qualities that I was compelled to model in my imagination if this book was to make any ...
... mind. Charlotte Turner's own spiritual pilgrimage has been an inspiration to me. I owe a debt to several great scientists, especially Istvan Ozsváth, Gregory Benford, Robert Turner, Ilya Prigogine, Roald Hoffman, and Edward Wilson ...
... minds, in every characteristic of every animal and plant, in family life, in mountains of limestones and in the renewal of a bacterial disease. The variousness of the evidence does not refute but confirms the existence of gravitation or ...
... mind and matter, meanings and facts, the realm of language and the realm of nature, breaks down. New games-theory and replication-dynamics research in the biological selection of social behavior (reported in such useful works as Brian ...
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Religious and Scientific Truth | |
Freedom Values and Strange Attractors | |
Time | |
The InformationSpirit Universe | |
A Brief History of | |
The Last Times | |
What Each Religion Brings to the Search | |
The Style of | |
Glossary | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |