Michael Hanby > Quotes

“In sum, the Trinity is manifest in a creation constituted as an icon of the God who is love, and thus a creation whose very form is Church, whose highest expression is the crucified, resurrected, and glorified Christ”
― Michael Hanby, Augustine and Modernity

“The notion of a “pure” science free from metaphysical and theological contamination is a fiction and therefore already the expression of a theology.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“Irreducibly metaphysical judgments as to the nature of being, form, time, space, matter, cause, truth, knowledge, explanation, wholes, parts, and the like are the starting point of science, not its conclusions.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“Conceptions of God and thus metaphysical and theological judgments are an inherent and ineradicable aspect of every conception of reason and nature, not as a matter of historical accident but as a matter of epistemic and ontological necessity.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“The relation of science to metaphysics and theology is not fundamentally a scientific question, nor is it fundamentally an empirical, historical, sociological, or even philosophical question, though of course it is all of these. Rather it is fundamentally a theological question, logically consequent upon the question of the relation between God and the world.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“The doctrine of creation ex nihilo, in other words, is not a freestanding cosmology. Rather, it is a function of the doctrine of God and the modifications forced upon that doctrine by the Incarnation, which inaugurated a metaphysical revolution that would take up the Greek inheritance and fulfill it from beyond its own resources.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“Metaphysical judgments are inherent in what counts as empirical evidence, and these judgments mediate between science and theology proper.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“there is no metaphysically neutral starting point from which science can lift itself up by its own intellectual bootstraps.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology

“science is intrinsically related to theology because one cannot identify the object of scientific inquiry—namely, nature—without simultaneously distinguishing it from that which is not nature—namely, God—and without giving tacit specification to the character of this “not.”
― Michael Hanby, No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology