God and the Big Bang, (2nd Edition): Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality
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, 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.
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Book details
- Author
- Daniel Matt
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Religion & Science
Religion › Judaism › Theology - Topics
- science and religion · cosmology · Jewish mysticism · theology · the universe · Big Bang theory
- ISBN-13
- 9781580238366 (Paperback)9781683360803 (Hardcover)
About the author
DANIEL C. MATT is a scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism whose nine-volume annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition stands as his landmark achievement. His recent books include Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation, God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality and The Essential Kabbalah, translated into eight languages.
Matt received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and served as Professor of Jewish Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley from 1979 to 2000, also teaching at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition received a National Jewish Book Award and a Koret Jewish Book Award. Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation received the inaugural Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize.
Daniel lives in Berkeley, California.