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    The Quantum Catholic: Top Down to Jesus, #2
    Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith: Top Down to Jesus, #1
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    Top Down to Jesus Series

    By Robert Kurland

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    About this series

    What does quantum mechanics have to say to Catholic teaching?  Quite a bit!  In this book, quantum mechanics and Divine action, quantum mechanics and the Real Presence, Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, and Quantum mechanics as an analogue for the Holy Trinity are discussed.

    A brief historical account of how quantum developed is given, to aid in understanding as well as a qualitative account of what the theory is all about. Three interpretations of quantum mechanics that intersect with Catholic teaching are explored:  consciousness as the final agent in the measurement process; the Many Worlds/ Many Minds interpretation of quantum mechanics; Quantum Logic. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Kurland
    Release dateMar 7, 2016
    The Quantum Catholic: Top Down to Jesus, #2
    Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith: Top Down to Jesus, #1

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      Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith: Top Down to Jesus, #1
      Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith: Top Down to Jesus, #1

      Top Down to Jesus, Book 1: a Scientist's Faith: Top Down to Jesus, #1

      Robert Kurland
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      The Title, “Top-down to Jesus”, paraphrases what one of my o heroes, Pope St. John Paul II, wrote: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” Encyclical Fides et Ratio In Book I, A Scientist’s Faith, I write about my conversion to the Church.   It came about, not as a vision of Our Lord or by the sound of His Voice, but by a rational process.   The great mathematician and scientist, Blaise Pascal also wrote about why the prudent person should believe in God, and I’ll discuss this in “Pascal’s Wager Revisited.”  Not only  “top down”, but through the heart has the Holy Spirit come to me, moments aided by music, so I’ve written about those also.     The book is divided into four parts, which reflect my road to faith and how the Catholic Church sustains me: Part 1—My Road to Faith, Part 2—Being a Catholic Jew, Part 3—My Moral Choices, Part 4—Loving Our Enemies.    Twenty-five years ago I became interested in the Church because of its anti-abortion, pro-life stance, so  this first Book includes chapters on the moral stance I take as a concomitant of my Catholic faith.    I came to the Church as an agnostic Jew, so I also explore the differences and the similarities between Catholicism and Judaism.

      The Title, “Top-down to Jesus”, paraphrases what one of my o heroes, Pope St. John Paul II, wrote: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” Encyclical Fides et Ratio In Book I, A Scientist’s Faith, I write about my conversion to the Church.   It came about, not as a vision of Our Lord or by the sound of His Voice, but by a rational process.   The great mathematician and scientist, Blaise Pascal also wrote about why the prudent person should believe in God, and I’ll discuss this in “Pascal’s Wager Revisited.”  Not only  “top down”, but through the heart has the Holy Spirit come to me, moments aided by music, so I’ve written about those also.     The book is divided into four parts, which reflect my road to faith and how the Catholic Church sustains me: Part 1—My Road to Faith, Part 2—Being a Catholic Jew, Part 3—My Moral Choices, Part 4—Loving Our Enemies.    Twenty-five years ago I became interested in the Church because of its anti-abortion, pro-life stance, so  this first Book includes chapters on the moral stance I take as a concomitant of my Catholic faith.    I came to the Church as an agnostic Jew, so I also explore the differences and the similarities between Catholicism and Judaism.

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      The Quantum Catholic: Top Down to Jesus, #2
      The Quantum Catholic: Top Down to Jesus, #2

      The Quantum Catholic: Top Down to Jesus, #2

      Robert Kurland
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      What does quantum mechanics have to say to Catholic teaching?  Quite a bit!  In this book, quantum mechanics and Divine action, quantum mechanics and the Real Presence, Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, and Quantum mechanics as an analogue for the Holy Trinity are discussed. A brief historical account of how quantum developed is given, to aid in understanding as well as a qualitative account of what the theory is all about. Three interpretations of quantum mechanics that intersect with Catholic teaching are explored:  consciousness as the final agent in the measurement process; the Many Worlds/ Many Minds interpretation of quantum mechanics; Quantum Logic. 

      What does quantum mechanics have to say to Catholic teaching?  Quite a bit!  In this book, quantum mechanics and Divine action, quantum mechanics and the Real Presence, Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, and Quantum mechanics as an analogue for the Holy Trinity are discussed. A brief historical account of how quantum developed is given, to aid in understanding as well as a qualitative account of what the theory is all about. Three interpretations of quantum mechanics that intersect with Catholic teaching are explored:  consciousness as the final agent in the measurement process; the Many Worlds/ Many Minds interpretation of quantum mechanics; Quantum Logic. 

    Author

    Robert Kurland

    Retired, cranky, old physicist.   Convert to Catholicism in 1995.   Trying to show that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic faith.   Intermittent blogs and adult education classes to achieve this end (see http://rationalcatholic.blogspot.com/   and http://home.ptd.net/~rkurland) Extraordinary Minister of Communion volunteer to federal prison and hospital; lector, EOMC. Sometime player of bass clarinet, alto clarinet, clarinet, bass, tenor bowed psaltery for parish instrumental group and local folk group. And, finally, my motivation:“It is also necessary—may God grant it!—that in providing others with books to read I myself should make progress, and that in trying to answer their questions I myself should find what I am seeking. Therefore at the command of God our Lord and with his help, I have undertaken not so much to discourse with authority on matters known to me as to know them better by discoursing devoutly of them.” St. Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity I,8. 

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