Cosmology and Creation by Paul Brockelman
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Description Paul Brockelman argues that the new scientific cosmology also functions as a religious creation story, or "cosmogony," with the power to provide our culture with a new vision of an ultimately meaningful sacred reality, and a corresponding basis for a comprehensive guide to living.
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The Big Bang is a myth, says Paul Brockelman in this fascinating look at the spiritual side of modern cosmology. But it is a myth in the best sense--a fully realized creation story, one that, for all its scientific origins, has the power to transform us spiritually. In Cosmology and Creation, philosopher and religious scholar Brockelman seeks to bridge the gap between the scientific and the spiritual, to bring together (as he puts it) thehead and the heart. We have isolated the two realms from each other for so long, he argues, that we have begun to lose a mystical sense of our place in the universe. But Brockelman believes that contemporaryphysics has advanced far beyond the mechanical view of nature, as propagated in the Enlightenment; the cosmology of the Big Bang has fostered a new way of understanding existence itself. To illustrate, he examines creation myths of the past, showing how they transcend simple explanations of the world to provide a deeper understanding of what our lives mean. And the fifteen-billion-year tale of the universe embraced by scientific cosmology serves precisely the same purpose, Brockelman claims; itbears a close resemblance to classic creation myths--and, indeed, it can transform our inner relationship with nature. The new scientific cosmology, Brockelman argues, offers something never beforeseen in human history: a scientifically accurate understanding of the entire universe and a spiritual vision of a "wider order of being" to which we all belong. Passionate and provocative, Cosmology and Creation promises to spark a lively debate about the new links between science and religion.
Author Biography
Paul Brockelman is University Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of a number of books, including The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life. He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.
Details ISBN 0195119908 ISBN-13 9780195119909 Title Cosmology and Creation Author Paul Brockelman Format Hardcover Year 1999 Pages 208 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137021190; About Us
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