Cosmology and creation : the spiritual significance of contemporary cosmology / Paul Brockelman
- Author
- Brockelman, Paul T.
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages)
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- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 1429404523 (electronic bk.)
9781429404525
0195353153
9780195353150
9780195119909 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0195119908 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1280529849
9781280529849 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
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