Using excerpts from a letter written by famed astronomer Galileo in 1615, two modern-day astronomers explore the relationship between science and faith, arguing that our notion of ultimate truth must include both the physical and spiritual domains.
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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1 Is There Grace in Space? |
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3 Understanding the Universe and Scripture |
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4 What Grace and Space Cannot Tell Us |
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6 An Illusion of Conflict |
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PART 2 HISTORICAL VIGNETTES |
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9 A Moon of Glass from Murano, Venice |
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10 A Troubled Dinner in Tuscany |
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11 Winning Back Trust: Astronomy and the Vatican |
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PART 3 PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF GRACE |
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12 Grace in the Life of Blaise Pascal |
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13 Grace alongside a Telescope in South Africa |
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| Appendix: Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany |
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| Bibliography and Additional Readings |
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| General Index |
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David L. Block (PhD, University of Cape Town) is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research has twice been featured on the cover of Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. He is the author of several books, including Starwatch and Shrouds of the Night. He has been a visiting research astronomer at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and the European Southern Observatory, among other institutes.
Kenneth C. Freeman (PhD, Cambridge University) is Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and one of the first to discover that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter.
