Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt – A Memoir

Alister McGrath has written an intellectual thriller that documents his transition from a nature-loving schoolboyMarxist to the Oxford Professor of Science and Religion. The detail is fascinating: discovering that what once wascertain crumbled, probing the methods and limits of science and finding in literature, historical, philosophical and imaginative, a pathway from the shadows of Plato's cave to an epiphany of understanding in the sunlit uplands, similar tothat of C.S. Lewis before him. Realising not only that science and religion give different but complementary maps of theworld, but also that Christianity offers the coherent big-picture framework for which his mind and heart had beenquesting. This is a must read for all those interested in the life of the mind and the science-religion debate. I could notput it down. You will not be able to either.