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Autore |
Brockelman Paul T |
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Titolo |
Cosmology and creation : the spiritual significance of contemporary cosmology / / Paul Brockelman |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773873-7 |
1-280-52984-9 |
0-19-535315-3 |
1-4294-0452-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1999. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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