A God That Could Be Real
In its looksee at this text, wildrumpusbooks.com advises, “Give this book to the other questing minds in your family, and brave yourself for heated discussions.”
It’s as the publisher, Beacon Press, reckons: author Nancy Abrams, a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist, “explores a radically new way of thinking about God.” Indeed, in this “paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy,” she “finds something worthy of the name ‘God’ in the new science of emergence.” What’s more, “A God that could be real is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.”
“I like it,” critic John Cowan says of the book, “because it is an example of what could be.” In fact, as Spiritually & Practice has it, “We now have a chance to take,” in Abrams’ words, “‘a creative, active role in the evolution of God.’” “She argues that God emerges in the world through the human mind,” Publishers Weekly affirms. Or, as Cowan puts it, “[W]e create God as a uberconsciousness. Indeed, that is our destiny, our future.” The book found favour even in the Jesuits-in-the-USA’s magazine, America: “The image of God which emerges…is marvellous….”
A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet
By Nancy Ellen Abrams
Beacon Press, 2015
