Andrew Davison

Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet - 51 Pegasi b - was located orbiting a star other than our own sun. Since then, thousands of new planets have followed, and the question of life beyond earth has become one of the principal topics in discussions between science and religion. Attention to this topic has a long history in Christian theology, but has rarely been pursued at any depth. Writing with both passion and precision, Andrew Davison brings his extensive knowledge of Christian thought to bear, drawing particularly on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, as well as his training as a scientist. No book to date better prepares the Christian community for responding to evidence of other life, if it is found. And yet, we do not need to wait for that to have happened before this book shows its worth. In thinking about planets, creatures, and ecosystems beyond our planet, Davison already reinvigorates our theology for the earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009303149
• Artikelnr.: 68994525

Autorenporträt

Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Associate Professor of Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where his work has inspired the arts and humanities programme at the ground-breaking Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe. One of the foremost scholars working between theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences, he is fellow in theology and Dean of Chapel at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His work on life elsewhere in the universe has been covered by news outlets around the world, in more than twenty languages. Davison is the author of Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics, Blessing, The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians, and Why Sacraments?

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Creation: 1. Many worlds
2. Angels
3. Life
4. Emptiness and plenitude
Part II. Revelation and Theological Knowledge: 5. Revelation
6. Knowledge of God and the language of the trinity
Part III. Imago Dei and Uniqueness: 7. A Copernican demotion? 8. Uniqueness and sharing the imago dei
9. Uniqueness, convergence and embodied cognition
Part IV. Christology, Salvation and Grace: 10. Sin and fall
11. Responses to sin: one incarnation
12. Multiple incarnations: introduction
13. Distinct incarnations: possibility and christological detail
14. The word unchanging and unchanged
15. Person assuming and natures assumed
16. Multiple incarnations: necessity and suitability
17. The dealings of God with unfallen creatures
Part V. Eschatology: 18. The final state
19. The arrival of the end.