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Light from the East (Theology and the Sciences) - Couverture souple

Nesteruk, Alexei V.

 
9780800634995: Light from the East (Theology and the Sciences)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0800634993 ISBN 13 : 9780800634995
Editeur : Fortress Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this unique volume, a new and distinctive perspective on hotly debated issues in science and religion emerges from the ancient Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. Alexei Nesteruk reveals how the Orthodox tradition, deeply rooted in Greek Patristic thought, can contribute importantly in a way that the usual Western sources do not. Orthodox thought, he holds, profoundly and helpfully relates the experience of God to our knowledge of the world. His masterful historical introduction to the Orthodox traditions not only surveys key features of its theology but highlights its ontology of participation and communion. From this Nesteruk derives Orthodoxy's unique approach to theological and scientific attribution. Theology identifies the underlying principles (logoi) in scientific affirmations. Nesteruk then applies this methodology to key issues in cosmology: the presence of the divine in creation, the theological meaning of models of creation, the problem of time, and the validity of the anthropic principle, especially as it relates to the emergence of humans and the Incarnation.Nesteruk's unique synthesis is not a valorization of Eastern Orthodox thought so much as an influx of startlingly fresh ideas about the character of science itself and an affirmation of the ultimate religious and theological value of the whole scientific enterprise.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alexei V. Nesteruk is senior research lecturer in mathematics at the University of Portsmouth and a visiting professor intheology and science at St. Andrew""s Biblical and Theological Institute in Moscow.He is a deacon of the Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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Éditeur
Fortress Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0800634993
ISBN 13 
9780800634995
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
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Personne responsable
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