Description A Passion for Truth is an intimate account of John Huntington\'s interior life as a physical scientist and as a priest.
Huntington wants to awaken in us a Passion for truth, and in doing so he wants to comfort us and bring us hope..
It cannot be condoned.
He concluded that, if striving for clear thinking is our loving response to our Creator who endowed us with intellect, then loose thinking, permissive thinking, untruth, relativism, could not be from God.
In liberal academic circles this is called postmodernism ; in theology it is called relativism ; in physical science it is called scientism .
At the root of them all is the idea that it is acceptable to be careless with the truth.
The author uncovered a number of fallacies embedded in our Western culture that serve to impede spiritual formation and to discourage the faithful.
This book is the result.
He could not turn away from the question.
This plunged him into an intense reflection on the authority of physical science and the trustworthiness of religious experience.
It became imperative to work to reconcile his two vocations within a single worldview.
In mid-career as a scientist he experienced a sudden and undeniable call to the priesthood.
Description A Passion for Truth is an intimate account of John Huntington\'s interior life as a physical scientist and as a priest
