From Eden to Interstellar Space

“This wonderful book provides a new map for thoughtful people looking for a way to understand the meaning of religion in the age of science. It discovers in the work of the atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel an adventurous pathway toward a fresh and profound way of reading the Bible and other ancient religious texts. This sophisticated but readable work shows how sincere searchers can fully embrace science while also venturing far beyond what science can teach us.”


—John F. Haught, distinguished research professor, Georgetown University





“This book is astounding, cosmic in scope, yet grounded in a desire to communicate the Bible to Christians, whom the author witnessed becoming increasingly alienated from the church. Sarah Beattie is convinced that physics must be a story in continuity with a doctrine of creation and that the Bible must become less familiar before it can be understood. From Eden to Interstellar Space is an integrative approach that is truly needed in the twenty-first century.”


—Nicola Hoggard Creegan, director, New Zealand Christians in Science





“In Sarah Beattie’s fascinating engagement and application of Nagel’s proposition of a new expansive hermeneutical approach that overcomes scientific reductionism she makes an original and important contribution to the initially incompatible other world of biblical hermeneutics and biblical theology. Her contribution to the science/faith discourse is truly novel and is one of the finest, most intelligent renderings of the possibility of dialogue between science and religion that I have read.”


—Yael Thomas Cameron, senior lecturer in education, Auckland University of Technology