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The great partnership : God, science and the search for meaning / Jonathan Sacks.

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ISBN	9780340995242 (hbk.)
Name	Sacks, Jonathan, 1948-
Title	The great partnership : God, science and the search for meaning / Jonathan Sacks.
Published	London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
Description	x, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	This book 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, the author 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.
Subjects	Religion and science
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Religion and science . See Also: Creation . Natural theology . Science . Authors: Sacks, Jonathan, 1948- .