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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819545803321

Autore

Brockelman Paul T

Titolo

Cosmology and creation : the spiritual significance of contemporary cosmology / / Paul Brockelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-773873-7

1-280-52984-9

0-19-535315-3

1-4294-0452-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

215.2

215/.2

291.175

Soggetti

Cosmology

Creation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.