Image of God – Christian Leadership in an age of Science

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Outline teaching notes for three 30-minute snippets on introducing science into preaching.

Voices

There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both the physical and the moral facts of the universe. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected.

Ada Lovelace

Think of who created thought.

Rumi

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same.

Hannah Arendt

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Augustine of Hippo

(Describing the Munduruku people of Brazil): The sacred dimension, for them, does not have a wall around it. How are you going to build a place for God if God is in everything?

Fr. Joao Messias Sousa, OFM

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge.

Clarence Darrow

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Alistair McGrath

Sometimes you want to whisper in God’s ear, “God, we know you are in charge, but why don’t you make it slightly more obvious?”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Madeline L’Engle

Only art can go some way towards making accessible, towards waking into some measure of communicability, the sheer inhuman otherness of matter…

G. Steiner