The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning

By Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Science & Math

In The Great Partnership (2011), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues that science and religion are complementary rather than opposed. In his phrase, science takes things apart to see how they work, while religion puts things together to see what they mean. Sacks responds to the new atheism of the period, traces how Greek and Hebrew thought shaped Western ways of knowing, and argues that a society needs both disciplines: science to explain the world and faith to give meaning, ethics and hope.