
The Great Partnership (Paperback)
Jonathan Sacks (author)Published: 21/06/2012
Writing with his usual grace and fluency, Jonathan Sacks moves beyond the tired arguments of militant atheists such as Dawkins' The God Delusion and Hitchens' God is Not Great, 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, Jonathan Sacks 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.
Publisher: John Murray Press
ISBN: 9780340995259
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 309 g
Dimensions: 197 x 164 x 25 mm
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An intelligent, optimistic credo that allows for the happy coexistence of science and religion * The Times *
One of the most engaging thinkers of our time * The Times *
Britain's most authentically prophetic voice * The Daily Telegraph *
Jonathan Sacks's voice carries unique moral authority far beyond the Jewish community * The Tablet *
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