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Flaw in the Universe, The
Natural Disaster and Human Sin
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When we look at the world around us, one of the most common observations is that things have a tendency to go wrong. People make mistakes, have accidents and some of them commit deliberate acts of violence. Disease affects every single species of plant and animal on the planet. Natural disasters kill millions of people and decimate animal populations. Countless people and animals suffer through no fault of their own. Scientists explain these events in various ways depending upon whether they involve errors in human choices and actions or whether they are caused by natural events. Theologians give us a different set of religious explanations. At times it can appear as if there is a fundamental flaw in the universe. In this book, Adrian Hough uses his training and expertise as both a scientist and a theologian to approach this flaw from both directions and comes up with the astonishing result that both sets of reasoning might have the same fundamental explanation. Using this discovery he then develops a way of reconciling belief in a loving God with the hurt and damage which is caused when things go wrong.
- Author(s): | Adrian Hough |
Adrian Hough was born in Staffordshire, England and read for a first class honours degree in Chemistry at Oxford University. He remained in Oxford to carry out research into inter-molecular forces which lead to the award of a doctorate. In 1989 trained for ordination in the Church of England as well as to read for a degree in Theology. Ordained deacon in 1992 and priest in 1993, he served as the curate of five rural parishes in the diocese of Worcester before becoming the vicar of three parishes in the same diocese. After a year in the Shetland Islands he returned to Worcester for eighteen months before moving to Exeter where he works as Chaplain to The Bishop of Exeter and also coordinates several pieces of work including the training of newly ordained ministers. Adrian is married to Kathryn, a General Medical Practitioner, and they have one daughter.
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Book Details:
ISBN: [978-1-84694-344-7] Price: £11.99 || $22.95 Publishing on: 24 Sep 2010 Pages: 220 Format: Paperback Size: 51/2x81/2 in || 216/140 mm Categories: -
Endorsements:
A significant contribution to our understanding of suffering and evil as well as to the dialogue between science and theology
Dr Hough frees Christian discussion of sin from the moraliser's bedroom and brings it into the laboratory, where he and his readers can engage in a proper study of why things go wrong, both theologically and scientifically, in our world.
Dr Hough brings to this book distinction in chemistry and passion for Christian doctrine. Not everyone will be persuaded by his particular fusion of the two, but no reader will fail to be informed, challenged and stimulated. Great themes often omitted from the science-theology conversation - such as atonement and Eucharist - here find their proper place in an intriguing account.
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