Astonishment and Science

“This in-itself-wonderful collection of essays by globally eminent theologians and philosophers asks that we return science to contemplative wonder for the sake of a more rigorous veracity.”


—John Milbank, University of Nottingham





“Astonishment is the wellspring of thinking. It makes us realize that the being of the world exceeds everything that model-driven theory constructs can capture. A civilization that does not preserve the logic of astonishment within its research methods and instruments slaughters the chicken that lays the golden eggs of ‘scientific progress.’ This highly political book shows that we need to recover what distinguishes a mindful physician, jurist, scientist, philosopher, or theologian from a project-driven academic cobbler.”


—Johannes Hoff, Universität Innsbruck