Reviews for Heat: A Graphic Reality Check for Teens Dealing with Sexuality

The average rating for Heat: A Graphic Reality Check for Teens Dealing with Sexuality based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-08 00:00:00 Ian Griffiths I enjoyed this book. I like Ward's style or writing and agree with much of his critique of dogmatic materialism and the relationship of science and religious faith. Unfortunately, in his attempt to reconcile God with the god of science and the god of the philosophers, Ward is guilty of reducing God to a rather more deistic and less glorified divine being than taught in Scripture. Ward's version of God is more distant, more disinterested, less sovereign and more constrained by the physical laws of the cosmos (which, of course, He himself created) then the God of Scripture. And in his eagerness to support evolution, Ward ends up with a subhuman anthropology and undercooked view of the soul/spirit. Ward's universalism becomes quite obvious in the final chapters. On this, we disagree. Apart from that, an excellent and entertaining read.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-19 00:00:00 Whitman Lam This book discusses how scientific knowledge impacts religious faith & belief in God. It does a good job of laying out how quantum physics, evolution, cosmology, etc all impact on religious faith & do not necessarily lead to an atheistic mindset. However, I feel like it doesn't really bridge the gap between having a 'scientific' view of God (as the ultimate intelligence) & the 'religious' view of God - while he does discuss the issue, I wasn't satisfied with that part of the book. Overall though, a good read.