Correspondence
not exist. Theology that ignores science ends up being disembodied, closed speculation. Science without theology ends up being arrogant, directionless technology. BR. ROBERT A. BARBATO, O.F.M....
...1 think we had better pay close attention to both...
...I don't have the pleasure of spending time in a monastery, but I shall try to be more aware of the sacred in my own world— among the store clerks, children, neighbors, and parishioners I pass among, and particularly in the taken-for-granted faces of my husband and children...
...MAGGIE McARTHUR...
...But it wouldn't matter much if they did—for we would only learn something about the limits to our storytelling, not even the whisper of a lesson about the nature and meaning of life or God...
...Heart & soul food Renton, Wash...
...To each its own Boston, Mass...
...To the Editors: Often, after reading all the material in Commonweal, I congratulate myself for making the time to feed the brain cells with the sustenance to be found there...
...Speaking of the "rock of ages" (religion) and the "ages of rocks" (science), Gould wrote: "[I]n this tough world...
...Another dualistic worldview...
...Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard's naughty biologist/ geologist, once wrote: "Genesis and geology happen not to correspond very well...
...Hence: "[T]heologians...must define 'our true selves' in a way that is compatible with the scientific way of knowing...
...it is something one participates in to express one's quest for meaning, not something one must define with one's mind in order to model the structure of things...
...Most articles, however, fail to touch my heart and feed my very soul, as did the lovely piece by Chris Anderson, "Experiencing the Tradition" [October 7...
...The message that came to me in the article was: Religion must accommodate to science...
...The column offered a tongue-in-cheek scientific interpretation of Saint-Exupery's Little Prince, a reading of the tale that (as Dr...
...But I may still be in good company...
...This sensitive, very realistic depiction of the slice of life the author experienced at Mount Angel is a reminder to look for God, not in some lofty place "out there," but in the people, sights, smells we all encounter every day...
...Thus Dr...
...Raymo's article on science and religion took me by surprise...
...Raymo well knew) made no sense at all...
...In one of these columns, if I remember it rightly, I thought Dr...
...He ended his column with the real meaning of the story, something to the effect that anyone who has a rose in his/her life (the kind the little prince had) understands what Saint-Exupe"ry's story is all about...
...To the Editors: Every Monday I read Chet Ray mo's column in the Boston Globe with religious fervor (and sinful interest, thus dualistically...
...But not, I pray, and as Gould suggests, at the risk of religion answering scientific questions and science religious ones...
...RICHARD J. BEAUCHESNE The writer is professor of religious studies at Emmanuel College...
...After reading Raymo on The Little Prince, I had come to see that the religious world, like the poetic world of the little prince, has something to do with one's relationship with his/her rose (or his/her god[s...
...Raymo had settled the science/religion debate once and for all...
...God is indeed "in the doughnut crumbs...
Vol. 121 • November 1994 • No. 20
