Saturday, December 24, 2005

Wisdom from Whitehead

The quote on the top of this month's Metanexus Institute's newsletter... food for thought:

"You cannot shelter theology from science,
or science from theology;
nor can you shelter either one from metaphysics,
or metaphysics from either one of them.
There is no shortcut to the truth."
– Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making

Whitehead is a scholar my theology and science prof respects a lot. He's pretty cool... deep into applying process philosophy/thought to this dialogue. Try out Ian Barbour's Religion in an Age of Science to get a glimpse of Whitehead's thoughts... among many others.

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