Quote of the Week

My favorite writer in the field of science and religion is John F. Haught, a theologian from Georgetown University. The following is the conclusion of his book, The Cosmic Adventure.

Christians hold that faith in God is inseparable from the building of true human communities bound together by a love that respects the dignity and worth of each individual. Because of this ideal, perhaps seldom realized by nevertheless kept alive somehow throughout the centuries as a compelling prospect, I cannot help agreeing with Teilhard de Chardin that Christianity has an important role to play in the future evolution of our planet. As one of the religious matrices of the ideal of neighborly love and human community, but also as nurturing a hope for the coming of God climactically into the tissue of cosmic becoming, Christianity is intrinsically open to the possibility of further cosmic emergence. In fostering the necessity of human bonding in the image of the "body of Christ" or "the people of God" it promotes the preparation of a subsidiary base suitable for a deeper incarnation of God in the cosmos. For this reason it seems to me that being a Christian is an acceptable way of endorsing and fostering the scientific discoveries of modernity.