Enough is Enough

Barbara Whittaker‐Johns; Barbara Whittaker‐Johns

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2003.00542.x

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Enough is Enough

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Abstract. God, the sacred, is radically indwelling and immanent; therefore, nature is enough to satisfy our thirst for transcendence. The transcendent is the radically indwelling capacity of love to bring new life and a sense of being at home in the universe to us and to the people of the world. The epic of evolution, the scientific story of evolution understood as cosmogenesis, is the foundation of this position. However, my primary focus is on one particular practice of internalizing the transforming power of the scientific story of evolution—that of story. Here the practice of story is understood as framing moments of our encounters with matters of faith and love, creating narratives out of these moments, embracing these narratives as a kind of personal scripture, and telling these narratives as a source of inspiration and of guidance about how we are to be of use in the world.

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enough, personal stories of faith and love as scripture, narrative, immanence

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Whittaker‐Johns, B., (2003) “Enough is Enough”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 38(4), 839–853. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2003.00542.x

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Barbara Whittaker‐Johns (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)

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Volume 38 • Issue 4 • December 2003

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Pages	839–853

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Published	2003-12-02

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