Evolutionaries
Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea

The main argument of the book: Up until the scientific revolution, some half a century ago, religion reigned supreme in the realm of belief and understanding. Since that time, though--and especially since the introduction of the theory of evolution in 1859--science has increasingly challenged religi......more

A combination of fringe science, cultural marxism/cultural materialism, identitarianism, social justice, environmentalism, climate change, evolutionary biology, a variety of new-age discourses and too many other ism to go into. The first section of the book was interesting examining the different way......more

This book by Carter Phipps is an outstanding work of intellectual journalism. That is, it’s intended for a general audience. It provides basic explanations of key terms and examines thinkers within its field with enough depth to whet the appetite of the curious. (Like yours truly.) The book explores......more

I hardly know where to begin this review. Let's start with genre. I could never determine what this book wanted to be. Was it a philosophical treatise? Not really, because it never offered a consistent, clear system of suppositions and logical conclusions that a person might engage and critique. Whi......more

This book is a fascinating survey of the thinkers Carter Phipps identifies as "Evolutionaries," among them Teilhard de Chardin, Alfred North Whitehead, Sri Aurobindo, Andrew Cohen, and many others. Given the pervasive evidence for evolution, how do we account for religious explanations that no longe......more