“This exploration aims to resolve the fundamental split between two diametrically opposed worldviews in the present day:  the critical disjunction between the evolutionary story of the universe as described by modern science since the time of Darwin and the traditional Gospel story of God’s self-communication in Jesus Christ that informs the lives up to 2 billion Christians in the world today.” more

“[B]eauty is the grasp of rightness. It arises for both theologians and scientists through rightly perceiving and theorizing about their objects of study. It is thus a perception of truth...For theologians, it can be grasping God’s true nature, God’s creation, and our ethical life. For scientists, it is the rightly perceiving, and theorizing about, nature. When this perception is made, it is accompanied by a sense of completeness.” more

“When Nietzsche's madman proclaimed the death of God in 1887, he correctly identified the perpetrators: "We have killed him, you and I". However, an examination of the crime scene reveals that Nietzsche misidentified the victim...” more

“[T]he now three-hundred year-old tradition of continental philosophy has dictated the agenda for the field of modern Jewish philosophy. However, I believe the field to be dead...dead because it has nothing to contribute to what is the primary task of all philosophy—the discovery of truth about everything.” more

“Sometimes at Metanexus we say that we’re after 'the whole story of the whole cosmos for the whole person.'  We say it... because the whole story is more like our motivating hope.... It’s what gets us up and moving in the morning…. Let me quickly say that the whole story is impossible.  It’s not just that we do not happen to have the whole story....  No.  The whole story is impossible.” more

“[Graham] Ward and [John] Milbank have brilliantly sniffed out the refusal of reciprocity performed in the presumed generosity of a merely kenotic, self-sacrificial giving. In resisting the pure gift in its impossibility, Ward and Milbank not only question a certain poststructuralist trajectory. They also inadvertently make a donation to process theology.” more

“Does ignorance of specific brain functions refute a position that so strongly stresses the unity of soul and body? The scientific advances that have told us so much about how the brain functions would be unlikely to have troubled Aquinas. The ancients and medievals certainly knew that a blow to the head could cause someone to lose consciousness or to become 'batty' in their behavior.” more

“Adopting a perhaps excessively critical attitude it is still by no means unfair to say that string theory is a theory en route to nowhere. It is a theory which, at its best, could conceivably capture the essence of material reality at its deepest level; or, at its worst, might be nothing more than an overblown tale with an overly complicated mathematical storyline.” more

"The divorce of natural science and religion has been damaging to both; but it is equally true that the culture of the humanities and social sciences has often been surprisingly blind and deaf to the spiritual, and that in my case, the attempt to break down these barriers is being recognized and honoured...The deafness of many philosophers, social scientists and historians to the spiritual dimension can be remarkable.  And this is the more damaging in that it affects the culture of the media and of educated public opinion in general." more

"Hegel, Philosophical Papers, Sources of the Self, Ethics of Authenticity, Multiculturalism, Philosophical Arguments, A Catholic Modernity, Varieties of Religion Today, Modern Social Imaginaries, A Secular Age."  more

Named Member, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton ... Sources of the Self ... The Ethics of Authenticity ... Honored as a Companion of the Order of Canada ... Delivers Gifford Lectures ... A Catholic Modernity? ... Made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec ... Modern Social Imaginaries ... Awarded 2007 Templeton Prize For Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities ... more

Complexity is all around us. Complexity is in eco-systems. Where do they begin and where do they end, and what should count as the minimal unit of an ecosystem?. more

The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One. He advanced towards it trembling. The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape... 'Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,' said Scrooge, 'answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?  more

In Galileo we touch a genius - a man committed to science and a man who practiced his faith - but bridged the seemingly unfathomable schism between them. He is the martyr for human intuitiveness; a man fallen into the death trap of human connivance and viciousness and one’s own ill judgements and calculated risks....in a nutshell the tears and triumphs of Galileo Galilei will always inspire humanity."  more