In this unique volume, a new and distinctive perspective on hotly
debated issues in science and religion emerges from the unlikely
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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