 | The Sacred Depths of Nature author: Ursula Goodenough rating:  asin: 0195126130 binding: Hardcover list price: $55.00 USD amazon price: $55.00 USD |
Goodenough is a professor of biology at Washington University. She describes her book thus: "It is the goal of this book to present an accessible account of our scientific understanding of nature and then suggest ways that this account can call forth appealing and abiding religious responses--an approach that can be called religious naturalism." She is trying to identify components of a "global ethos," not tied to any one religious tradition, but arising out of the "truths" that evolutionary processes point to. The book is written along the same pattern as a devotional, with a scientific essay (topics such as "Origins of the Earth," "Origins of Life," "How an Organism Works," etc.) followed by a spiritual meditation on that scientific theme. The meditations include texts from the Bible, from Lao Tzu, from native American chants, from poets, from hymns.
