Cosmology and creation: the spiritual significance of contemporary cosmology
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Main Author: Brockelman, Paul T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index
Preface; Introduction: The Unfurnished Eye; 1 This Side of Paradise: Creation Mythology; 2 The New Cosmology; 3 Wonder and the Miracle of Being; 4 The Transcendence of God in Nature; 5 But Does God Exist?; 6 La Vita Nuova (Life Transformed); 7 Here's the Story; 8 Within Sight of the Promised Land; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
This text argues that the new scientific cosmology also functions as a religious creation story, or "cosmogony". Traditional creation mythologies offer a vision of an ultimately meaningful sacred reality; they show precisely how all of creation emerges from and is situated within that reality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 194 p.)
ISBN:0195353153
1280529849
1429404523
9780195353150
9781280529849
9781429404525

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