Why I wrote this book: As a retired Episcopal priest, continuing my research in two favorite areas of interest (Science and Religion), I noticed the growing conflict that seems to exist between them, especially after the Middle Ages and The Enlightenment. The early vision of the world was quite simple, a three tiered universe with earth at the center, the gods above in heaven with the sun, moon and stars influencing the earth, and the netherworld underneath below. Most of human knowledge and understanding was based on imagination, inspiration, and revelation. The scholars and philosophers of...

(Brief background note: I was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1966, and was inspired to write and publish this book in 2002. I am having it republished so it can be available once again, in both print and now in electronic versions.) Church traditions, formed in previous times and places, may have quite a stagnating effect on church communities and the individuals members today in the 21st century. Earlier traditions that were constructed from a vision of early observations and understandings of an earth centric universe are not compatible with our scientific revelations now. They...

After extensive reading and study of the scriptures as shared in modern scholarship of recent years, I became aware of their dating, authorship, reasons why they were written, along with many other varied cultures in which they were constructed. This all made me aware of the cultural, political, religious and language difference that, when we read the Bible, we are not always aware of how different those times were from ours today. The Gospel, the good news, came alive anew as I grasped their faith, struggling and comparing it with our faith and struggles today. The Reason for This Book: In...

Recapturing And Following The Jesus Of History - Fostering An Abundant Life Following Jesus - "the Way to a Truth-filled Life." Why This Book? As a retired Episcopal Priest, Rev. Gerard A. Pisani, Jr. has been able to intensify his study of Religion and Science. He has found that Religion - imagination, inspiration and revelation - still has value. As he expressed it: "Science - observation, hypothesis and theory - provides the verity to one's knowledge and understanding. In maturing and growing older, and even now, I still am amazed how short sighted I have been by placing limitations on...