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“A fine addition to the growing library of alternative approaches to literalism in belief, this book is suitable for academic libraries, liberal churches, and individual seekers.”—Library Journal“A truly extraordinary read from beginning to end...Informed, informative, thoughtful, thought provoking, inspired and inspiring. Very highly recommended.”—Margaret Lane, Midwest Book Review“Like everything else in life, Gods die. And when they do, new Gods come to take their place. Ours is a time of new Gods birthing, and Nancy Abrams’s magnificent book A God That Could Be Real is a powerful act of midwifery. This is not a eulogy for the old Gods but a prophecy of the new.” —Rabbi Rami Shapiro, author of Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent “You will find that your beliefs are enriched by reading Abrams’s book. I am thrilled that we have the creativity and originality that is exhibited in this book, and I recommend it highly to all, religious or secular, believer or atheist, who are ready to explore honestly their understanding of the divine in our beautiful, expanding universe.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from the Foreword “Over the past two decades a largely sterile dispute has raged between two diametrically opposing camps: atheists and religious fundamentalists. It is surely time to move on and elevate the discussion to a higher intellectual level. This ambitious and thought-provoking book by Nancy Abrams on the interface of science and religion is a timely and welcome contribution to a more productive discussion of the topic.” —Paul Davies, from the Foreword “A God That Could Be Real is full of sparkling prose, memorable quotes, and strikingly original insights that have never been brought to the page before, despite the long-running culture wars between organized religion and modern science over God and cosmic knowledge. My family and I spent a long dinner and all of breakfast the next day debating the meaning of this book. Give this book to the other questing minds in your family and brace yourself for heated discussions.” —Sandra Moore Faber, National Medal of Science recipient and University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz “Nancy Abrams dares to pose many of the important and challenging questions that arise at the intersection of contemporary cosmology, spirituality, and atheism. I respect Abrams’s moral passion and honest search for a God that could be real, a search beckoning us all.” —Matthew Fox, founder of Creation Spirituality and author of Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times“[Abrams] points to a way beyond the boring religion-science debates, which pit secular fundamentalists against religious fundamentalists.”—Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg, Patheos
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About the Author
Nancy Ellen Abrams is coauthor with Joel R. Primack, of The View from the Center of the Universe and The New Universe and the Human Future.
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Product details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press (March 8, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807075957
ISBN-13: 978-0807075951
Product Dimensions:
6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
90 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#352,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book describes a concept of God that is consistent with science. Most interesting to me is that it matches completely my own personal intuitive "sense" of what God is. Some of the negative reviews seemed to be making fun of the author for not being scientific enough or having developed this concept through her personal experience, but they did not state any way in which the concept failed scientific argument so the author's concept remains valid. She'd be the first to change her theory based on new scientific findings so that the concept is always consistent with our current understanding of the way the universe works. Most religious concepts are at complete odds with known facts (if taken literally of course - as allegory they are fine. :)People who DO believe in their religion literally would probably not like this book but if you have a rich religious tradition but could use a more modern interpretation of God, try this out!
An entirely new point of view on an emerging God on earth, created by all the aspirations of every human who has ever lived. Totally congruent with science and the latest discoveries -- there is now NO need for any conflict between science and religion any more. A totally congruent spiritual system. I'm fascinated and have been thinking about these implications ever since I read the book. A page-turner and mind-bender, for sure!
We know we are alive and real, but from whence we came and why is the question of existence. Seeking answers to from where and why is, I believe, the basis for the author's finding embedded in each of us a God-capacity. It's undeniable that we want to believe in something greater than us, because we know there is more than us. Abrams tries to free us from being stuck in the traditional notions of God and conceive of God as an emerging, evolving something in which we can believe and be inspired. Many provocative thoughts and even inspirational sentiments, but not the answer for my God-capacity.
This book was a disappointment, mainly because it was not convincing even while trying to be open minded about what was being proposed.The prospect of cutting edge science and a view of the divine that go hand in hand is an exciting proposition, but felt this book had too little of the former and was not convincing on how it was positing the latter.I came away from it feeling like there could be (and might already be) a more convincing treatment of the subject.
I like A God That Could be Real, Beacon Press, by Nancy Ellen Abrams. particularly because it is an example of what could be; Theist or non-Theists abandoning argumentation in favor of seeking solutions. As Nancy, an atheist, says, a religion and science at cross purposes creates a fragmented culture. One either affirms reality on one side or the other, or tries to ignore that there is a problem, and live two contradictory lives at the same time. It messes us up. She is trying for an idea of God that integrates religion and science.In brief, she sees God as an emergent property of human consciousness. Not the same as saying we made up God, but saying that much as an ant colony behaves as one center of decision making instead of many so we create God. Indeed that is our destiny, our future. Apparently scientists take emergent properties very seriously. In her scientific mind, (she is a philosopher of science and her husband is a noted cosmologist) an emergent property is quite real.(This has similarities with Chardin’s God as Final Cause, the God at the end of the road. I would like this thinking even better if she treated the potential of consciousness with the same respect she gives the emergence of consciousness. That might give us a God both before and after us. First potential, and then emergent. Or to put it into Aristotelian language God as both Final, Efficient and Formal Cause. Maybe Material too although there is reason to think even the scriptures find the Material Cause elsewhere than God. I seem to remember that Aristotle found it in prime matter.)Ms. Abrams sets as a rule for her thinking that we cannot have the God we want with the characteristics we want because such a God is impossible. For instance, a good God cannot be omnipotent. The reality of life on earth makes obvious that if God is good, then he is is unable to prevent evil, for we clearly have evil, or if God is omnipotent, then God is not good, at least from our perspective. So don’t ask her to create a good omnipotent God. Or a God of the universe for that matter, just a local God of our planet. The God that could be real is much more limited than the God of Aristotle and Aquinas.She links the criticality of saving our planet not to our self interest but to our destiny as those who will carry consciousness and God to the universe, or at least more of the universe. This she sees as our sacred task.These are just a few of my stumbling ideas from the book. Although I found many of the thoughts in A God That Could Be Real consonant with my own thinking, I recommend it to you not so much for what it says as for what she is trying to do. She is backing out of the fight between theist and non-theist and trying to start again utilizing both the wisdom of science and that of religion to produce a coherent picture. (Some other brilliant person somewhere in my foggy life recommended that we should state alongside our beliefs the security with which we hold them. As I have said in response to the invitation to share my doubts with others, I have no doubts. After four years of post-graduate work In the field of theology, I have no convictions so how can I have doubts?)She may have been forced into this. She is a food addict who was counseled by many to join a twelve-step group. The twelve step dictum that she should turn her self over to a higher power was of course impossible for an atheist, but when in desperation she finally tried it, she found it made a remarkable difference. Her scientific background told her that the God of her religious upbringing was nonsense. When at age fifteen she was asked by the rabbi to say that God created people, she responded that she thought people created God. So with that early commitment to the rational, how did she make sense of her experience? This book is the answer. Since she still thinks humans created God, just not as a figment of the imagination, I am not sure the rabbi would be pleased.But I am. It’s a start. This would seem to me to be the eon in which to be creative about the God who might or might not exist and thoughtful about what that God might look like or not look like. To simply say the God of our fathers and mothers is adequate seems incongruous with scientific findings and highly unlikely, and to say there is no God seems to leave some huge questions unanswered. Time to go back to work. As has Ms. Abrams.God bless her heart!
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