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The Big Question: Why We Can’t Stop Talking About Science, Faith and God

by Alister E. McGrath · 2015

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"Alister McGrath's The Big Question is an accessible, engaging account of how science relates to faith, exploring how the working methods and assumptions of the natural sciences can be theologically useful. McGrath uses stories and analogies, as well as personal accounts, in order to help readers understand the scientific and theological points he makes, and grasp their deeper significance. An extremely accomplished scientist and scholar, McGrath criticizes the evangelism of the New Atheists and paves a logical well-argued road to the compatibility between science and faith,"—Amazon.com.

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adult
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medium · 272 pages

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