ABSTRACT
The author became a Christian as a result of personal experience, which, as he recall it, was primarily an experience of the living presence of Christ, or of the Spirit of God, as an energizing and inspiring power inwardly known. The language of Paul Tillich was redolent of the grand metaphysical systems of Hegel and the idealists, whose pretensions had been deflated simply by asking precisely what they meant. And many theologians, where they were interested in doctrines, were still involved in fourth- and fifth-century debates about ancient Greek philosophical terms which again belonged to a past philosophical landscape. Religion makes bold statements about the ultimate nature of reality, and new physics, biology and information technology provide new information about at least the ultimate nature of physical reality. This leaves believers with the problem of how to relate traditional beliefs, formulated entirely in pre-scientific cultures, to these amazing new discoveries about the nature and history of the physical universe.
