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Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Creation! How we are here. Not just us, of course, but bluetits and
Hereford cattle and cabbages and E. coli and deserts and mountains
and suns and nebulae ... in fact, all that is. So not only "Why are
we here?" but "Why is there a `here' for us to inhabit?". That is
this book's theme. Inevitably it doesn't answer the question in a
mechanistic sense. A telescope cannot look at itself, and neither
can an inhabitant of the Universe say how it came to be. But that
does not stop those questions haunting us.So where shall we turn?
To cosmology? The concept of an initial event, a "Big Bang", is now
almost universally accepted. But what caused that? Most would feel
that this is not a question science can answer. The first two
contributors to this book are professional cosmologists, yet
cosmology is only a background for this book, not its core theme.
That theme is the conviction that the Universe owes its existence
to a divine Creator - and the specific formulations of this
conviction in the three great monotheistic religions, the
"Abrahamic" faiths. The scriptures of all three faiths include the
creation-accounts in the first two chapters of Genesis. Later
developments moved the expressions of the three faiths considerably
apart, but the social and political conditions of the 21st C world
make it imperative that every effort should be put into a recovery
of understanding between their practitioners.The purpose of this
book is to contribute to that understanding. Of thirteen chapters,
two are by Jewish authors and three by Moslems; several of the
Christian authors also are deeply versed in the other traditions.
Together, the chapters show that the attitudes of the three faiths
to Creation have far more in common than otherwise. In particular,
they are noticeably and encouragingly coming together in their
endorsements of 21st C concerns for the environment.The book
derives from a conference of the Science and Religion Forum in Sept
2006, but all chapters have been rewritten for publication, and
carefully edited with linking commentaries.
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