A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

Lawyer and philosopher Abrams (coauthor, The View from the Center of the Universe) was faced with a dilemma: intellectually committed to atheism, she began to embrace the idea of a higher power while part of a recovery community. This concise book intelligently describes her ideas about a growing, "emergent" God, a God conformable both to the experience of the religious and the standards of the atheistic and nonreligious. She emphasizes our care and concern for the planet as a crucial component both of this emergent God and our sense of immortality; for the author, the survival of the Earth and the success of future generations are essential to "faith." Abrams's sense of a post-literal God is by no means unique, as she seems to suppose, but her approach is direct, well informed, and effectively grounded both in her personal experience and her knowledge of scientific principles.