A New Copernican Turn

Name: A New Copernican Turn
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032863498
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Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology

By Geraint F. Lewis and Doru Costache

Series: Routledge Focus on Religion

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This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology’s knowns and unknowns and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe. It also addresses one of cosmology’s unknowns, the destiny of the self in... Read More

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This short book discusses the latest in terms of cosmology’s knowns and unknowns, and sets out to ascertain the potential of Orthodox Christian theology for accommodating the current scientific view of the universe.

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The book examines, accordingly, the signs of a New Copernican Turn within contemporary culture, favouring the self and its meaningful encounters with the infinite universe, at the forefront of which is the quest for a physics that views something akin to the self as undergirding reality, not as an inconsequential byproduct of natural phenomena. The book further shows that theological, spiritual, and religious forms of nature contemplation and wonder facilitate the self’s creative intersection with the universe. It amounts to an exercise in science-engaged Orthodox theology that takes contemporary cosmology as a starting point.

The intended audience of this book is scholars and researchers of science and religion, religious studies, philosophers, and theologians.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032863498

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 July 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Doru Costache is a Romanian Orthodox priest living in Australia and Associate Professor of Theology at the Sydney College of Divinity. He is the current Selby Old Fellow in Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith at the University of Sydney Library. Until recently, he was Honorary Research Associate in Studies in Religion, the University of Sydney’s School of Humanities. He coedits ISCAST’s interdisciplinary journal, Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology. His lecturing and research career spans almost thirty years. His latest monograph was Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (2021).

Geraint F. Lewis is Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in the University of Sydney’s School of Physics. He has more than three decades of experience studying the cosmos, focusing on the “dark side,” the matter and energy that shape the universe around us. He is the author of more than five hundred academic publications and a populariser of science through public speaking and media presentations. He has written three popular science books on the universe’s wonders, of which the latest was Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions (with C. Ferrie 2021).