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God and the Big Bang, (2nd Edition): Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality Hardcover – April 7, 2016

by Daniel C. Matt (Author)
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God is not somewhere else, hidden from us; God is right here, hidden from us.

"We are part of something greater: a vast web of existence constantly expanding and evolving. When we gaze at the nighttime sky, we can ponder that we are made of elements forged within stars, out of particles born in the big bang.... Beyond any star or galaxy we will ever identify lies the horizon of spacetime, fourteen billion light years away. But neither God nor the big bang is that far away. The big bang didn't happen somewhere out there, outside of us. Rather, we began inside the big bang; we now embody its primordial energy. The big bang has never stopped."
―from Chapter 11

To discover the presence of God throughout the cosmos and in our everyday lives, Daniel C. Matt draws on both science and theology, both fact and belief, both cosmology and Jewish mysticism, taking us on a deeply personal, thoughtful and inspiring journey. This update of the award-winning first edition gives us a fresh look at the growing topic of science and spirituality, helps us find our place in the universe and shows us how the universe is reflected in our very being.

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    April 7, 2016
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  6. ISBN-10
    168336080X
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Daniel C. Matt is a leading authority on the Zohar and Kabbalah. He is the author of the best-selling The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages); Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment; God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality (Jewish Lights); and Zohar: Annotated and Explained (SkyLight Paths). He was professor of Jewish spirituality for over twenty years at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and he continues to lecture around the country on Jewish mysticism and spirituality. He is the author of the first nine volumes of the annotated translation The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, hailed as "a monumental contribution to the history of Jewish thought."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jewish Lights; 2nd Edition, New (April 7, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 168336080X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1683360803
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars The big bang didn't happen somewhere out there, outside of us. Rather we began inside the big bang.
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Like the physicist, the mystic, too, is fascinated by the intimate relation of matter and energy. [Beyond a personal God] is the oneness of matter and energy.-Page 29-[We need to understand the difference between ego and soul]-The ego and its personal God are dependent on each other. -page 49-[As the ego and soul merge], the self becomes aware of the self, personal consciousness tastes the oneness of the God beyond God-The energy of all energies! I highly recommend God and the Big bang by Daniel Matt. Are you ready to accept matter is energy, and go beyond a personal God, to the beloved transcendent energy of all energies -the Ein Sof?
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UNEVEN COMPARISON WITH KABALLAH
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3.0 out of 5 stars For scientists, not for me
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2019
On the first page of the book, some well-credentialed critic refers to this as “a highly accessible book for the general reader.” That is to laugh.

The last time I had this experience was decades ago when somebody decided to throw the Miller Analogies standardized test at a bunch of theology students. I loved standardized tests. Ate them up. My score in this one was the fiftieth percentile. Nor, after about the fifth question was I surprised. I had no idea what they were talking about. I rarely understood the question. This time also.

My problem was science. A subject I did not really understand. In my last two years of college, Dr. Giesen walked over from St. Thomas to teach us seminarians science. A week before finals he would invariably show up with a set of questions he had used on premed students at the college the week before as helpful guide to what he might ask us. And then on the fatal day of the big exam he would show up with the same questions. Why? He thought us hopeless.

This book makes a case for the existence of God from the hair-splittingly design of everything to allow for the existence of us, conscious beings. The basic argument is that the only random, that is “Godless,” way to get to a human-friendly universe is to have multiple universes that do not work in order, by dumb luck, to get one that does. Not likely.

Now this argument seems simple, but need not be. The author who has for his jousting companions such as Einstein and Hawking takes the long way on this through some exceedingly, to me recondite arguments involving formulas consisting mostly of letters or near letters. Half, at least, of the book, leaves me just blinking. But apparently when all is said and done Dr. Holder has proven his point. There is one God, the maker of heaven and earth. As a theist, I appreciate this.

So why tell you?

First, I am happy to know there is a book out there that wins that argument for my side. Of course, I suppose, there are books out there that win it for the non-theist side, but I will not dwell on that. Nor subject myself to the humiliation of not understanding formulas. (Did you know that after a bit Einstein added a symbol that looks a little like a Delta with the bottom chopped off. And he really regretted that addition but no one would let him remove it, because it was useful for their purposes. The sound you hear is me running screaming down the hall.)

Second, I know two people who might understand this. Both are very smart cookies with advanced degrees in science. So maybe you are one of their lot? You would love this book.

If you will look Big Bang Big God up on the Amazon page it is being sold on you will find a reviewer who understands this who will give you an extensive précis of it. As I read his review I thought this could be helpful to someone else. Maybe you. Not me.

It might be a great book even. The reviewers all of whom seem to understand it give it very high marks.
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