Particles of Faith
A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science
by Stacy A. Trasancos
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Pub Date Oct 11 2016 | Archive Date Dec 06 2016
Description
What is the origin of life? Hasn’t the Catholic Church always been hostile to science? Can a Christian accept the scientific theory of evolution?
How can Catholics explain what the Church teaches about the relationship between science and faith? Scientist, writer, and scholar Stacy Trasancos gives us ways we can talk about how science and our Catholic faith work together to reveal the truth of Christ through the beauty of his creation.
As a scientist who was led to Catholicism through her work, Stacy Trasancos has confronted some of the basic questions we all face. In Particles of Faith, she teaches us how to explain the symbiotic beauty between our curiosity expressed through science and our love of Christ and his Church.
Trasancos uses her own story, as well as encyclicals such as Pope Francis’s Lumen Fidei, the deep reflections of theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas, and the exacting work of Catholic scientists like Rev. Georges Lemaître (who proposed the game-changing Big Bang theory), to show how science and faith are interwoven and meant to guide us on the path to truth.
By the time you finish reading Particles of Faith, you’ll be able to answer questions about, generate discussion on, and explain why science helps deepen your faith.
Features & Benefits
Stacy Trasancos serves as editor emeritus of Catholic Stand. Its website reaches about a million Catholic readers.
Trasancos received a Templeton Grant through John Carroll University to develop a “Science in the Light of Faith” course to teach seminarians how to read scientific literature.
Advance Praise
“Particles of Faith is the perfect book for our time. Stacy Trasancos explains the most fascinating concepts of science in terms that anyone can understand. She cracks open the treasure chest of wonders we encounter as we examine science through the lens of faith.”
Jennifer Fulwiler
Catholic radio host and author of Something Other than God
“Many believers today feel caught between two seemingly contradictory worlds: that of their Christian faith and that of rational science. Stacy Trasancos precisely and methodically presents the harmony she has found. Particles of Faith will no doubt be a gift to the more scientifically minded who mistakenly think they must check their brain at the door of the church.”
Rev. Dave Dwyer
Executive Director of Busted Halo Ministries
“Among many people today, it's presumed that faith and science are at odds. We are encouraged to choose between the objective facts of biology or physics and the comforting pieties of religion. But, in Particles of Faith, Stacy Trasancos shows why this is a false choice through her own personal story as a scientist and a Catholic. She navigates many controversial touch-points between faith and religion such as cosmology, evolution, and quantum mechanics to reveal how science is supportive of the Catholic faith. Give this book to an atheist friend or any Catholic curious about whether faith can stand alongside science.”
Brandon Vogt
Catholic author, blogger, speaker, and content director of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781594716577 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Bethanie R, Reviewer
In Particles of Faith, Stacy Trasancos offers Catholics a way of understanding the relationship of faith and science and the tools necessary to discuss it. Sometimes it will go over a lay person’s head, but I ask the reader to be patient. The whole book isn’t that way and value of this book in the faith vs. reason discussion far outweighs the few moments of confusion.
Stacy Trasancos is probably the best person around to write a book like this. She has a PhD in Chemistry living much of her life a student without a clear faith foundation. As a scientist who has converted to Catholicism, who better to explain how faith and reason are not mortal enemies, but rather two wings on the same bird, helping us all to grow in our relationship with God. (I just mixed metaphors there, but I think it works.)
When I was in third grade I remember asking my teacher in a public school, no less, “Were Adam and Eve monkeys?” Let me repeat that, third grade in public school. My family wasn’t even religious. My teacher was taken back. She expressed that she was impressed with the question and shared some story about other questions like that she’d been asked, but didn’t really give me an answer because I’m sure she couldn’t. The chapter about evolution in this book reminded me of this exchange and gave me more food for thought on this issue. That chapter was the one I could understand best and it raises questions that your average armchair theologian or scientist wouldn’t think of.
Please read this book if you are interested in the relationship between faith and reason.
Thank you Ave Maria Press for the opportunity! I got to read this through my membership in NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Stacy Trasancos for writing this book!
