After a sermon in a parish church where Barth had been preaching one Sunday, he was met at the door by a man who greeted him with these words, "Professor Barth, thank you for our sermon. I'm an astronomer, you know, and as far as I am concerned, the whole of Christianity can be summed up by saying, `Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.' Barth replied: "Well I am just a humble theologian and as far as I am concerned the whole of astronomy can be summed up by saying, `Twinkle , twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.' "
The aim of this personal blog is to illustrate the intellectual engagement of Christian theology with science and with culture. The name Soli Deo Gloria is inspired by J.S. Bach's writing SDG on all his compositions. Handel also did this on some compositions (see above).
I have fun at work trying to use quantum many-body theory to understand electronic properties of complex materials.
I am married to the lovely Robin and have two adult children and a dog, Priya (in the photo). I also write an even more personal blog Soli Deo Gloria [thoughts on theology, science, and culture]
What a great anecdote!
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