Religious Naturalism and Creation: a Cosmological and Theological Reading on the Origin/Beginning of the Universe

Alessandro Mantini*

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Abstract

According to the reconceptualization of science that emerged in the twentieth century, our approach to nature is changing. There is a calling for an enlarged rationality and for a multilevel analysis of the Cosmos around us, because the reality itself shows new depths and complexities, while new methodologies in the scientific research, such as cross-disciplinary and multi-messenger, are necessary. In this epistemological change of paradigm, escaping from empiricism, mechanistic determinism, reductionism, and relativism, appears “natural” the reference to metaphysics and to theology exactly because we need to get outside and to “open the system” to obtain better and more complete descriptions. Theology, referring to the Revealed Personal God as Trinity and Unity and in particular Christology, mostly with Incarnation, adds the conditions for a “natural” landing in a profound and rich cross-disciplinary study concerning the beginning and origin of the Universe. We will explore these passages for an integrated and encompassing reading of the Universe.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)1058-1069
Numero di pagine12
RivistaZygon
Volume56:4
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2021
Pubblicato esternamente

Keywords

  • Christology
  • beginning
  • cosmology
  • creation
  • meta-physics
  • natural
  • origin
  • rationality
  • relationality
  • universe

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