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==Contents==

==Contents==

There are six chapters plus a preface and author's note. The first chapter ''Community vs. Subject Matter'' discusses the benefits of focusing on science and religion as communities, outlining five common frameworks in which religion and science are routinely compared. The first chapter's section on "Impersonal vs. Personal knowledge" highlights [[Werner Heisenberg]]'s May 1958 article in [[Harper's magazine]] and [[Michael Polanyi]]'s 1958 book ''Personal Knowledge''. The second chapter ''Science and Christianity as Communities'' begins by mentioning the work of the well-respected sociologist [[George Homans]] and anthropologist [[Robert Redfield]] selecting six methods from Redfield's ''The Little Community'' ([[University of Chicago Press]], 1956) with which to study and compare the religion and science communities.  In the third chapter ''The Reality of Spirit'', Pollard uses the [[United States Marine Corp]]<ref>more than forty references to the U.S. Marines, analysis of all chapters including preface and cover text </ref> as an example of another community in to order compare it with the religion and science communities and to better explain ancient and modern ideas of [[spirit]]. The third chapter's section on "Spirit and Holy Spirit" states that [[Eric Hoffer]]'s ''[[The True Believer]]'' "offers a profound understanding and exceptionally clear insights into the nature of the spirit in the community...", but takes exception to Hoffer's idea that any spirit from a mass movement and its community, Christian or otherwise, always ends up being bad.<ref> [[Christianity]]'s view shared by [[William G. Pollard|Pollard]] is that the [[Bible]] provided a means ([[John the Evangelist|St. John]]'s {{bibleverse||1John|4:1-3}}) by way of "confession and witness, rather than demonstration or reasoned conclusion" to the problem of "selecting that particular community whose spirit only operates to give life and fulfill the personhood of all in its service." (''Physicist and Christian'', 1961, pages 71-76) </ref> The fourth chapter ''Nature and Supernature'' introduces [[Rudolf Otto]]'s [http://books.google.com/books?id=70DNx6VNS74C ''The Idea of the Holy''] leading into a discussion about non-conceptual components within the experience of life and how that relates to the science community. The fourth chapter holds that a range of reality can be experienced that is non-conceptual and to illustrate how a portion of reality could appear so, it goes over the idea of higher dimensions using [[Edwin Abbott]]'s [[Flatland]] as an example. Chapter five ''Knowledge'' discusses [[epistemology]] as found in both science and religion communities incorporating ideas from [[Martin Buber]]'s book ''[[I and Thou]]'' and a diagram from [[Henry Margenau]]. The sixth chapter ''The Problem of Revelation'' jocularly states "To one who has known the sense of real achievement which accompanies the gaining of each new understanding and insight in science, the idea of revealed knowledge is likely to seem on a par with copying answers out of an answer book at an examination." <ref> [[#Pollard1961|Physicist and Christian, 1961, p. 149]] </ref>

There are six chapters plus a preface and author's note. The first chapter ''Community vs. Subject Matter'' discusses the benefits of focusing on science and religion as communities, outlining five common frameworks in which religion and science are routinely compared. The first chapter's section on "Impersonal vs. Personal knowledge" highlights [[Werner Heisenberg]]'s May 1958 article in [[Harper's magazine]] and [[Michael Polanyi]]'s 1958 book ''Personal Knowledge''. The second chapter ''Science and Christianity as Communities'' begins by mentioning the work of the well-respected sociologist [[George Homans]] and anthropologist [[Robert Redfield]] selecting six methods from Redfield's ''The Little Community'' ([[University of Chicago Press]], 1956) with which to study and compare the religion and science communities.  In the third chapter ''The Reality of Spirit'', Pollard uses the [[United States Marine Corps]]<ref>more than forty references to the U.S. Marines, analysis of all chapters including preface and cover text </ref> as an example of another community in to order compare it with the religion and science communities and to better explain ancient and modern ideas of [[spirit]]. The third chapter's section on "Spirit and Holy Spirit" states that [[Eric Hoffer]]'s ''[[The True Believer]]'' "offers a profound understanding and exceptionally clear insights into the nature of the spirit in the community...", but takes exception to Hoffer's idea that any spirit from a mass movement and its community, Christian or otherwise, always ends up being bad.<ref> [[Christianity]]'s view shared by [[William G. Pollard|Pollard]] is that the [[Bible]] provided a means ([[John the Evangelist|St. John]]'s {{bibleverse||1John|4:1-3}}) by way of "confession and witness, rather than demonstration or reasoned conclusion" to the problem of "selecting that particular community whose spirit only operates to give life and fulfill the personhood of all in its service." (''Physicist and Christian'', 1961, pages 71-76) </ref> The fourth chapter ''Nature and Supernature'' introduces [[Rudolf Otto]]'s [http://books.google.com/books?id=70DNx6VNS74C ''The Idea of the Holy''] leading into a discussion about non-conceptual components within the experience of life and how that relates to the science community. The fourth chapter holds that a range of reality can be experienced that is non-conceptual and to illustrate how a portion of reality could appear so, it goes over the idea of higher dimensions using [[Edwin Abbott]]'s [[Flatland]] as an example. Chapter five ''Knowledge'' discusses [[epistemology]] as found in both science and religion communities incorporating ideas from [[Martin Buber]]'s book ''[[I and Thou]]'' and a diagram from [[Henry Margenau]]. The sixth chapter ''The Problem of Revelation'' jocularly states "To one who has known the sense of real achievement which accompanies the gaining of each new understanding and insight in science, the idea of revealed knowledge is likely to seem on a par with copying answers out of an answer book at an examination." <ref> [[#Pollard1961|Physicist and Christian, 1961, p. 149]] </ref>

==Critical stands==

==Critical stands==