God and the Big Bang, 2nd Edition, Daniel C. Matt
God and the Big Bang, 2nd Edition, Daniel C. Matt
1 Rating(s)
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

God and the Big Bang, (2nd Edition)
Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality

Author: Daniel C. Matt

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2019

Synopsis

God is not somewhere else, hidden from us; God is right here, hidden from us.

"We are part of something greater: a vast web of existence constantly expanding and evolving. When we gaze at the nighttime sky, we can ponder that we are made of elements forged within stars, out of particles born in the big bang . . . Beyond any star or galaxy we will ever identify lies the horizon of spacetime, fourteen billion light years away. But neither God nor the big bang is that far away. The big bang didn't happen somewhere out there, outside of us. Rather, we began inside the big bang; we now embody its primordial energy. The big bang has never stopped."
—from Chapter 11

To discover the presence of God throughout the cosmos and in our everyday lives, Daniel C. Matt draws on both science and theology, both fact and belief, and both cosmology and Jewish mysticism, taking us on a deeply personal, thoughtful, and inspiring journey. This update of the award-winning first edition gives us a fresh look at the growing topic of science and spirituality, helps us find our place in the universe, and shows us how the universe is reflected in our very being.

About Daniel C. Matt

Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on the Zohar and Kabbalah. He is the author of the bestselling The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages); Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment; God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality; and Zohar: Annotated and Explained. He was professor of Jewish spirituality for over twenty years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and he continues to lecture around the country on Jewish mysticism and spirituality. He is the author of the first nine volumes of the annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, hailed as "a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dennis

If I had read this book when it first came out, it would have been exciting to me. Even today, if you are only distantly familiar or not aware at all of kabbalistic concepts, Hasidic approaches to meditation and prayer, or Jewish Renewal attempts to lift up the living sparks of our tradition, you ma......more

Goodreads review by Matt

I went into this expecting it to be a bit more harmonizing than it actually is. The book more or less takes the secular understanding of science and accepts it as fact. Then shows how these facts can display various aspects and characteristics of God. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it doe......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

Danny Matt weaves together an amazing vision of science and belief without injury to either He shows amazing parallels in the Kabbalistic views of the origins of life and the Big Bang Theory But most importantly, he highlights that science no more answers the ultimate question than religion; What is......more

Goodreads review by William

Had surprisingly little to Do with the Big Bang......more

Goodreads review by A

Like the physicist, the mystic, too, is fascinated by the intimate relation of matter and energy. [Beyond a personal God] is the oneness of matter and energy. -Page 29-[We need to understand the difference between ego and soul]-The ego and its personal God are dependent on each other. -page 49-[As t......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List