About
Chris Hambleton resides in Denver, Colorado where he is employed as a software developer and consultant. He has authored more than a dozen books, as well as developed several websites, software applications, and written software-related articles. His other interests include hiking, studying the Bible, reading American history and politics, along with devouring good fiction books. Recently, he has been learning to enjoy classical music.
To learn more about Chris Hambleton and his other books, please visit his website at http://www.cwhambleton.com
Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God
Description
<p>“<em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(</em>Teilhard de Chardin<em>)</em></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;"><em>Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God </em> is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">.</em></p><p>“<em> Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience</em>” (From a reviewer)</p><p>Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other. The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">From the same review “</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.</em></p><p><em>(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)</em></p><p> </p>
Story Behind The Book
I first took a passing-interest in Bible prophecy in 1996, and then in 1998 began to study it much more seriously. Soon after the War in Iraq began, I felt led to create a website to describe the events of Ezekiel 36-39 and track the current events in the Middle East through the lens of Scripture. This website is known as EzekielWatch.com.
Several years later, during the spring of 2010, I went on a study-tour of Israel with Koinonia House and visited the land of Israel for myself. Next to the CD-study, that trip has had the single most important impact on my faith and perception of the world. The brief tour of the Holy Land had a deep impact on my perspective of Israel, the United States of America, and the other nations involved in the lasting Middle East conflict. The guide for our group was phenomenal and constantly taught us both Israel's Biblical history and her recent history over the past century.
At the time I first created the EzekielWatch.com website, I did not fully understand many of the complexities involved with the Palestinians, Israel, the Arabs, and Jordan. It's not as simple as “the Jews should just take the West Bank and Gaza and make it part of Israel” as many evangelicals (along with many Orthodox Jews) proclaim. If it was, I am certain that Israel would have done so after 1967 in the aftermath of the Six Day War.
My excursion into writing began in 2006 and my first book, “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble” was released in 2008. The story chronicled the story of an Israeli family as they enter into the End Times and progress through the Tribulation. While the book was heavily based upon Scripture, there were numerous first-time author mistakes present and other elements of the story that I was unsettled about.
After I returned from Israel, I rewrote the book into a trilogy based upon all I had learned about the people, the land, and the political situation. With the completion of “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble” trilogy, I noticed that the EzekielWatch.com website badly needed updating, which then led to the conclusion that the material on the site could better be utilized in the form of a book.
And with that realization, the “Ezekiel Watch” book was born. It’s my sincerest desire that this study will bolster your faith, give you a greater understanding of the Scriptures and Israel, and give you a greater appreciation for the truly miraculous times we are living in and the challenges we face. Though we face days of rising turbulence and uncertainty, we can rely upon the Lord just as He has promised Israel: “He who keeps us shall not slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4)
