Article: Nature, Reality, and the Sacred: The Nexus of Science and Religion.(Brief Article)

By Langdon Gilkey. Theology and the Sciences. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993. Pp. xii + 266.

Three recent sets of lectures, based on papers written from 1987 to 1991, have been thoroughly re-edited here. The themes are familiar ones in Gilkey's work since his 1959 Maker of Heaven and Earth on the Christian doctrine of creation. In those 35 years G.'s method has shifted from a form of neo-orthodoxy to a mixture of liberal and revisionist theology. The overall approach is vintage Gilkey: to approach a major issue with great knowledge of relevant theological perspectives, clearing underbrush and moving trees until the outline of a viable theology appears. He leaves ...

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