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Tag Archives: cosmology
When Making Makes No Nuttin’ Difference
We have to be careful. It’s easy to misconstrue the Christian claim that God has created the universe out of nothing. In his popular book Theology and Sanity, Frank Sheed writes: God made it. And He made it of nothing. … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged big bang, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, Denys Turner, divine creation, God, Herbert McCabe, nothing
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Exorcizing the God of the Gaps
The rise of modern science created a problem for Christian theology. If God is not scientifically needed to explain why water freezes at 32°F or why the stars come out at night, if the universe is just a self-powered machine … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged big bang, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, creation, creator, creaturely causality, deism, divine causality, God, Robert Jastrow
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The Cosmic Dance That is Holy Trinity
After his harrowing battle with the Un-man and his rebirth in the bowels of Perelandra, Elwin Ransom finds his way to a hidden “valley pure rose-red, with ten or twelve of the glowing peaks about it, and in the centre … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged C. S. Lewis, cosmology, Discarded Image, Great Dance, Perelandra, Ptolemy
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A Self-effacing Gardener: The Unity of God’s Activity in Nature and Grace in the Theology of Austin Farrer
by Jeffrey A. Vogel, Ph.D. Introduction At the end of Faith and Speculation, his last major work, Austin Farrer writes the following: “Our thesis is no more than that the relation of created act to creative Act is inevitably indefinable, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, cosmology, divine action, divine providence, double agency, evolution, God, human freedom
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Sergius Bulgakov on Evolution and the Fall: A Sophiological Solution
by Charles Andrew Gottshall Introduction As John Milbank perceptively pointed out in his paper “Sophiology and Theurgy,” the Russian sophiologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were far ahead of the West in theologically responding to modernity, including … Continue reading
Posted in Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged cosmology, death, divine creation, evolution, original sin, sophia, the Fall
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Creatio ex Nihilo: The Oordian Demiurge
Thomas Jay Oord: creatio ex creatione a natura amoris “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice after falling down the rabbit hole. Like most of his fellow contributors to Theologies of Creation, Thomas Jay Oord believes that “we need an alternative … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Philosophical Theology
Tagged Aquinas, cosmology, creatio ex nihilo, creation, God, multiverse, theodicy, Theologies of Creation, Thomas Oord
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Creatio ex Nihilo: Alternative Proposals (1)
The new book Theologies of Creation, edited by Thomas Jay Oord, presents ten essays by different theologians addressing the doctrine of creation, with critical attention to the creatio ex nihilo. The majority of the theologians find the traditional doctrine problematic, … Continue reading
Sergius Bulgakov: The End of the World is Nigh!
On this point science and the Bible agree (sort’ve): the history of the present universe will come to conclusion. Whether the universe continues to expand indefinitely, ultimately approaching the temperature of absolute zero (big freeze), or at some point begins … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocalypse, cosmology, end of the world, eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
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