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Article: Science and Wisdom.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 2004
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SCIENCE AND WISDOM. By Jurgen Moltmann. Translated from the German by Margaret Kohl. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Pp. xiii + 219. $20.
In his preface, Jurgen Moltmann relates his intention as a schoolboy to study mathematics and physics. War intervened, and the existential questions it raised led him to theology instead (xi). Yet as early as 1963, as the opening essay of this book attests, he was looking for a way out of the strict neo-orthodox separation of theological from scientific discourse. The book's title comes from two hitherto unpublished essays in which M. suggests that faith and reason can encounter each other in a common quest for a sort of practical ...