Seeking Truth: Living With Doubt - Softcover

Onellion, Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434318729 ISBN 13: 9781434318725

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

Exploring the intersection of art, science and religion, "Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt" considers that all three are paths to the same end. Attacking not only the unyielding smugness of evolutionary biologists but also the uncompromising surety of Fundamentalist figureheads (in both the Christian and Islamic faiths), author Steven Fortney and Marshall Onellion take the reader on a path that disavows all such certainties and considers the thought-provoking question; What does it mean to live with doubt? Far from leaving questions unanswered, instead they tackle such questions as proof versus faith, the impossibility of absolute understanding, and how a combination of art, science and religion can lead to a transcendence of that which we cannot know. In so doing, they expose the dangers of "certainty," be it in religion, science or any other ideology that claims to offer absolute truth. "Seeking Truth: Living with Doubt" has been endorsed by theologians (Arthur Dewey, Professor of Theology, Xavier University [a Jesuit University], Ohio, USA), biologists (Clark Lindgren, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA), and physicists (Narendra Kumar, Director of the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India), by Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists. It will appeal to those interested in the two channels of truth seeking: transcencence (also called religion) and the physical world (also called science). The book interconnects many science topics, including cosmology, neurobiology and evolution, to religion and the arts. It also proposes some unorthodox ideas, including the equivalence of the Christian concept of Grace and the Buddhist concept of Emptiness, and that what a religious devout person does in prayer is identical to what a writer does during the creative process.

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About the Author

Steve Fortney, born in Minnesota into a military family, has degrees in Classics and Philosophy and Education from the University of Wisconsin, and attended Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Married since 1960 to Ruth Fortney, he has four children and eight grandchildren. He was a newspaperman for four years, a union negotiator for 25 years, an alderman for 22 years, and a high school English teacher for 31 years. He took initiation in the Tibetian Buddhist tradition from the Dalai Lama, and received his Zen Buddhist name from Priest Sokyu Hashimoto in Miharu, Japan. He fishes, hunts and gardens. He has six published novels and numerous published poems.Marshall Onellion, born in Louisiana, has an ethnic background that includes French, Irish, Scottish, English, Portugese and 1/64 Cherokee Indian. He was an Eagle Scout at age 13, received a B.S. in math and physics from West Virginia University, served as an Air Force officer, and received a Ph.D. in physics from Rice University. He had been north of the Mason-Dixon Line only six months before he became a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he has worked since 1987. He has 179 refereed journal articles and over 3,100 citations. Married since 1977, he and his wife Violet Castro are soft touches for stray dogs and cats.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434318729
• ISBN 13: 9781434318725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316