Science
Date
2005
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, publisher
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Abstract
Nature is both a scientific and a religious challenge. Nature must be evaluated within cultures, classically by their religions, currently also by the sciences so eminent in Western culture. Religious persons often find something "beyond," discovering that neither nature nor culture are self-explanatory as phenomena; both point to deeper forces, such as divine presence, or Brahman or Emptiness (sunyata) or Tao underlying. Religions often detect supernature immanent in or transcendent to nature, perhaps even more so in human culture, though some religions prefer to think of a deeper account of Nature, perhaps enchanted, perhaps sacred.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 1497).
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nature
science
religion
culture
cosmology
sunyata
supernature
sacred
enchanted world
God