The Moving Image: Science and Religion. Time and Eternity (Routledge Revivals)

Research scientist and university teacher, Anglican clergyman and warden of a great theological library, the author had previously lectured and written extensively on religious and scientific questions.In The Moving Image, originally published in 1966, he deals with a number of related problems, some old and some new, on the borderland where science, philosophy and theology meet.How does our sense of time arise, and what does it mean?Is the universe an accident and human life without purpose, or is a doctrine of creation a necessary counterpart to the teachings of evolution?What does it mean in a scientific age to claim that the eternal God works out his purpose in cosmic and organic process, revealing himself in human history?Does the classical doctrine of the Incarnation do justice to Christ’s involvement as a human person in the travail of the real world as we know it?These and other questions are looked at afresh in the light of a carefully articulated understanding of the relation