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



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Autore: Brockelman Paul T Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cosmology and creation : the spiritual significance of contemporary cosmology / / Paul Brockelman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina: 215.2
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Soggetto topico: Cosmology
Creation
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Cosmology and creation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-773873-7
1-280-52984-9
0-19-535315-3
1-4294-0452-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.