Questioning
Mark Tully challenges perceived truths in religion and science. He considers how faith is not synonymous with certainty, and how lack of doubt can be detrimental.
Mark Tully invites us to challenge perceived truths in religion and science. He hears how faith is not synonymous with certainty, and how a lack of doubt, whether religious or scientific, is detrimental to both.
Mark is joined by Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, a practicing Christian and co-author of It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion. They discuss the book's premise that a scientific outlook is not an alternative to a religious one, and that scientific knowledge does not replace the Great Truths of religion. Professor Briggs maintains that science is, βstudying how God makes the world work,β and talks of, βa glorious entanglementβ between religious and scientific questioning.
This entanglement is explored through the words of Mark Van Doren, Walt Whitman and the former Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sachs - as well as the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Haydn and Charlie Parker.
Readers: Jasper Britton, Frank Stirling and Philippa Geering
Presented by Mark Tully
Produced by Adam Fowler
A 7digital Production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Readings
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Published by Hodder and Stoughton
Title: God of Galaxies
Found in Verse and Universe
Author: Mark Van Doren
Published by Milkweed
Title: The Relation of Science and Religion
Author: Richard Feynman
Transcript of Caltech YMCA Lecture in May 1956
Title: The Old Wisdom
Found in Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Author: Jane Goodall
Published by Hachette UK
Title: Passage to India
Found in Leaves of GlassΒ
Author: Walt Whitman
Title: Diary Extract
Found in Life, Letters and Journals
Author: Maria Mitchell
Music
Performer: Otonowa Wind Symphonica Ensemble
Composer: Alfred Reed
Album: Alfred Reed Live! Vol. 3: Giligia
Label: Klavier
Title: Marche Pontificale
Performer: Orchestra dell Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Composer: Charles Gounod
Album: A Hymn For The World
Label: DG
Cat: 4573552
Title: Psalm 111
Performer: Choir of St. Johnβs College Cambridge, George Guest
Composer: Jean Langlais
Album: The Sound of St. Johnβs
Label: Nimbus
Cat: NI5335
Title: Ko-Ko
Performer: Charlie Parker
Album: Complete Jazz Series 1945-1947
Label: Complete Jazz Series
Title: A Sea Symphony iv. The Explorers
Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Album: Teldec
Label/Cat: 8573-84070-2
Title: The Creation: Recitative βAnd God saw everything...β and Chorus βThe great work is completed...β
Performer: TΓΆlzer Knabenchor, Tafelmusik, Bruno WeilΒ
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Label: Sony Classical
Cat: SX2K 57965
Broadcasts
- Sun 17 Feb 2019 06:05ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 17 Feb 2019 23:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4