The year 2009 marks the fiftieth anniversary of C. P. Snow’s influential lecture on the ‘Two Cultures’. In it he argued that the divide between the sciences and the humanities was hindering contemporary society’s attempts to solve many of the problems it faced. In the half-century since then fields of learning have become, if anything, even more specialised and subdivided; the challenge he pointed to faces us ever more starkly. However spirituality is, or at least has the potential to be, one discipline that can bridge this division, drawing on the insights of both art and science to further its quest for God and its appreciation of God’s creation. In this issue of The Way, something of the richness that can result is illustrated.
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