God After Einstein

What’s Really Going On in the Universe?

By: John F. Haught

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening.

Before the early 20th century, scientists and theologians knew almost nothing about time’s enormity and the corresponding immensity of space. But after Einstein, cosmology offers theology a whole new way of looking at the ageless questions about matter, time, God, cosmic purpose, and the significance of our lives. The universe need no longer be thought of simply as an endless reshuffling of lifeless and mindless atoms in a pointless series of moments. Rather, the universe is a temporal drama of awakening whose meaning can be revealed only gradually by looking, in a spirit of anticipation and hope, toward the horizon of the cosmic future.

In conversation with Einstein’s ideas and opinions, John F. Haught develops here a new cosmological understanding of the meaning of God, time, eternity, mystery, life, thought, freedom, and faith. In doing so he offers listeners a new way of understanding the relationship of science to theology.

©2022 Yale University (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Don't get the audio version

Let me start off by saying, this book seems really interesting. I think the topic is a good one and the points of the author are worth exploring BUT I would not recommend the audio version as it was almost impossible to follow. Maybe it's the nature of the book itself, but the way it was read just made the words roll right off of me. It was very hard to retain anything and the narrator just drones on IMO. I have listened to plenty of non-fiction via audible, including religion, history, science and philosophy and been fine following the threads on those books but not on this one. So if you want the book, do yourself a favor and go buy the Kindle or physical version. You'll get more out of the experience.