Methodist Church of New Zealand|Touchstone September 2022

Secular and Sacred

Ian Harris, Wellington - August 31, 2022

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May I correct Ian Hood’s statement in the August Touchstone that I “sympathise with the scientism viewpoint that only science can provide truth about the world and reality”.

Quite the contrary: I commend to him a section on science in my book Hand in Hand: Blending Secular and Sacred to Enlarge the Human Spirit.

Basically, we have two modes of engaging with the world: the scientific approach which breaks things down into their component parts to show how they work, and a religious approach that seeks to bring things together in imaginative stories, join people in meaningful relationships, and find meaning. We need both.

Ian Harris, Wellington.

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