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Cosmology, ecology, and the energy of God

By Clayton , Bowman , Donna; Crockett

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0823238954, 978-0-8232-3895-8, 9780823238996, 0823238997, 9780823249336, 0823249336, 978-0-8232-3896-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1002 kB (1026375 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
201\213
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Cosmology -- Congresses. Ecotheol

Description

This book brings together process and postmodern theologians to reflect on the crucial topic of energy, asking: What are some of the connections between energy and theology? How do ideas about humanity and divinity interrelate with how we live our lives? Its contributors address energy in at least three distinct ways. First, in terms of physics, the discovery of dark energy in 1998 uncovered a mysterious force that seems to be driving the inflation of the universe. Here cosmology converges with theological reflection about the nature and origin of the universe. Second, the social and ecological contexts of energy use and the current energy crisis have theological implications insofar as they are caught up with ultimate human meanings and values. Finally, in more traditional theological terms of divine spiritual energy, we can ask how human conceptions of energy relate to divine energy in terms of creative power

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