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The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet

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If you, like me, believe that angels exist but are sick to death of mass-market New Age pablum books on angels, this book is for you. A highly respected theologian (Fox) and an equally respected biologist (Sheldrake) talk about science, nature, and angels, both the good and the bad. I think even an agnostic or skeptic would enjoy this book.

This was a Very thought provoking book, but I would not expect anything less from Sheldrake and Fox. I highly recommend reading other books by both of these men. They are both "fringe" thinkers but so was Galileo.

Matthew Fox (born 1940) is a theologian and bestselling advocate of "Creation Spirituality." He became a Catholic priest of the Dominican order, but was removed in 1992, and has subsequently become an Episcopalian priest. He has published an autobiography, Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest. Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942) is an English biochemist and plant physiologist, perhaps best-known for his theory of "morphic resonance" that was proposed in his book A New Science of Life. They have also jointly written the book Natural Grace: Dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and science.

They state in the Preface of this 1996 book, "It may seem unlikely that a scientist and a theologian would sit down at the end of the twentieth century to discuss angels. Both disciplines at the end of the modern era appear equally embarrassed by this subject. Nevertheless, although angels have been ignored by the scientific and theological establishments, recent surveys have shown that many people still believe in them... We are entering a new phase of both science and theology, and the subject of angels becomes surprisingly relevant again."

Here are some representative quotations from the book:

MF: "For theologians it became an embarrassment for three hundred years even to mention angels. But angels are mentioned throughout the Bible. Whenever you talk about cosmology, the angels come out."
MF: "We should put up a sign: ANGELS NEEDED. There's plenty of work for angels in a period of interconnectivity."
MF: "Imagination sets us off from the angels. It shows how we have something they don't have."
MF: "We are a bridge between the material world and the spirit world, and it gets us down. How badly we fail both worlds!"

A very detailed review of Christian Theology on Angels but short on physics. I believe in and have seen beings of light but was completely unmoved by the Sheldrake's speculations on angels. Read Swedenborg instead. he observed the heaven worlds from a Christian perspective. Believing is seeing here. Nothing to do with physics. Better title. "My Beliefs about angels founded on conjecture without any observations or experiences , scientific or supernormal"

I was disappointed with the delivery of this book based on the title. The only part I liked was the Thomas Aquinas part. There is nothing scientific about it. I expected more form Rupert being a biologist. Where's the Physics??? The authors assume alot but back none of their assumptions up. This book is so flawed on the angel debate, I could be here all day. It really annoys me when authors spew out thoughts and ramble on but don't offer any evidence. The pages on Satan & the dark angels are utterly laughable!!! These guys should of done alot more research!!! There's nothing here I didn't know already but I sure wish I was there when they were doing this book so I could correct them on the blatant mistakes & contradictions they made.

I THINK, THAT THE CONTENT OF THIS BOOK IS VERY HIGH QUALITY, AND I SEND PERSONALLY MY BEST REGARDS TO MR, RUPERT SHELDRAKE AND MR. MATHEW FOX AND I HOPE THEY WRITE MORE ABOUT IT

THANK YOU PEDRO MANUEL DE MELO MARQUES GOMES