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Title: The New Cosmic Story

Subtitle: Inside Our Awakening Universe

Author: John F. Haught

Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought

Publisher's Summary:

A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration

Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe - including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins - have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life's awakening to interiority and religious awareness. Science may illuminate the outside story of the universe, but a full telling of the cosmic story cannot ignore the inside development that interiority represents.

Haught addresses two primary questions: what does the arrival of religion tell us about the universe, and what does our understanding of the cosmos as an unfinished drama tell us about religion? The history of religion may be ambiguous and sometimes even barbarous, he asserts, but its role in the story of cosmic emergence and awakening must be taken into account.

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Members Reviews:

Interesting

I find a great openness in Haught's book. Certainty closes your mind in the archaeonomic (you have to read the book to understand the term) spiral from which you imprison yourself in the unawareness of what's coming to be. Anticipation is the mode opening your heart and mind to expect more and look forward toward hope and happiness. Step by step. Every day.

A must read for seekers

John Haught is a distinguished theologian who has spent his long career thinking through connections between our outer world revealed by science and the inner experiential world of religion, and has a seasoned grasp of the literature in both realms. Not just a philosophical argument, beautifully precise prose guides the reader through the veil separating the physical-and-objective from the subjective-and-spiritual. He points out that only recently have we determined that the cosmos is not âfixedâ but rather is a still evolving (awakening) narrative in which the evolutionary emergence of life and mind are major milestones. He draws attention to the unseen explosion in recent millennia of subjectively experienced, interior life, of which religion is the major expression (as well as literature, media, etc.). The main theme of the book is to redirect our seeking from the past into the future: we are submerged within an unfolding cosmic drama in which the unifying principles of meaning, goodness, beauty, and truth, what Haught summarizes as rightness, all lie in the âhorizonâ up ahead of us. Haughtâs is a spiral argument in which the general project is plainly manifest from the very beginning, and then, as you proceed through each chapter, your understanding effortlessly deepens; old concepts come alive, as faith is welded to patience and prayer to anticipation.

I can personally attest that this book presents liberal humanists like myself a passionate and beautifully reasoned invitation to deepening a secular commitment to progress toward unity and rightness into the religious sphere.