The Universe in the Image of Imago Dei
The Dialogue between Theology and Science as a Hermeneutics of the Human Condition
Alexei V. Nesteruk
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The Universe in the Image of Imago Dei
The Dialogue between Theology and Science as a Hermeneutics of the Human Condition
Alexei V. Nesteruk
About This Book
Cosmology, anthropology, and Christology are deeply interrelated. This implies that one cannot talk about the structure of the world without human presence in it, as well as it is impossible to produce any reasonable understanding of humanity without positioning it in the universe. In the same fashion, in order to comprehend where the human capacity of predicating the universe comes from, one needs to appeal to humanity's Divine Image, that is, to its archetype in the incarnate Christ. Whereas Christians traditionally believe that the human phenomenon is unique as created in the Divine Image, such scientific disciplines as evolutionary biology, palaeoanthropology, the sciences of artificial intelligence, psychology, and others, challenge the vision of humanity as a unique formation thus challenging the doctrine of Imago Dei. All these disciplines place humans in a mediocre position in the world accompanied by the feeling of anxiety, insecurity, and non-attunement to the universe. Theology needs to respond to these challenges by incorporating into its scope the data from the sciences in order to neutralize such anxieties. The resulting dialogue of theology with science provides a hermeneutics of the human condition with no objective to change the latter. Then the sense of the universe is disclosed from within the Divine Image reflecting the predicaments of the human created condition.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1: Humanity as a Central Theme of the Dialogue between Theology and Science
- Part 2: The Universe in the Image of Imago Dei or Humanity as Hypostasis of the Universe
- Conclusion: The Transfiguration of the Universe through the Deified Knowledge or the Universe in the Image of Imago Dei
- Appendix 1: Glossary of philosophical terms
- Appendix 2: Glossary of basic terms and ideas from physical cosmology
- Bibliography