Princeton University Center for Theological Inquiry and the John Templeton Foundation held a public event on spiritual progress, focusing on five landmark books and authors fostering the new conversation on science and religion. Hear excerpts of the conversation below:
» Robert Bellah on the Axial Age
» Jonathan Sacks on Conversation as Prayer
» Marilynne Robinson on Human Exceptionalism
Marilynne Robinson is a professor at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She’s the author of several novels - “Housekeeping,” “Home,” and “Gilead,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College.
He’s author of “The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang” and “A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Cosmos.”
