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Guided by Knowledge, Inspired by Love

Autor Henry Disney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 noi 2014
Henry Disney's is, to borrow a phrase, a beautiful mind, and also a tough mind. This little book of poems is a rare journey through the penetrating ideas and questioning, the deep and unsentimental Christian faith, and the rigorous scientific thinking of a very honest man. Disney has worked out the worldview that he shares with his readers in these poems, over a lifetime, with blinkers ruthlessly removed with regard to both religion and science. There is nothing pie-in-the-sky about his Christian faith. It has been and continues to be honed by daily encounters in his labs (mostly at the University of Cambridge in the UK) with the scientific findings of evolutionary biology, and in the difficult daily world of people and events both personal and public. But Disney also respects what cannot be neatly explained, and gives careful consideration to those experiences that challenge a completely "scientific" worldview. These poems are redolent of his efforts to ignore no data (no matter how troubling, challenging, or unpleasant) and to avoid mindlessly adhering to any previous assumptions or dogma, scientific or religious. They touch only lightly on his academic work, though that is always in the background and has been hugely important and extensive (see his biography at the end of the book). When Disney, once an atheist, speaks of his radiant faith in Christ, as he does in these poems, we can be certain it is a faith rigorously examined -- and hard-won. It must also be said that Disney's love and concern for other people close to him, and in the much wider world of his global experience, come through loud and clear. A book like his presents a difficult challenge to anyone who thinks religious faith and modern science are incompatible, or who thinks that either can be dismissed. Review on AMAZON by Kitty Ferguson
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ISBN-13: 9781782283751
ISBN-10: 1782283757
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
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Editura: Pneuma Springs Publishing

Notă biografică

Henry Disney is an entomologist and poet. He did his National Service, including active service in Cyprus, from 1957 to 1959. During this time he was promoted to the NCO rank of Bombardier, then to 2nd Lieutenant. After his undergraduate studies at Cambridge, he became Deputy Warden Flatford Mill Field Centre in 1962, leaving the position to marry. During the 1960s, between assignments in dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) research units in Belize and Cameroon, he studied at the Department of Education, Bristol University. He became the Director of the Malham Tarn Field Centre and National Nature Reserve in 1971, and then in 1984 a Field Studies Council (FSC) Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. On 'retirement' in 1998 he became Senior Research Associate at the same department. In addition to the volumes of poetry which form the basis of the first part of this book, Henry Disney is the author of Regaining Life's Winding Trail, published by Austin Macauley in 2017.