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Olli-Pekka Vainio, a leading expert in science and theology, explores questions concerning the place and significance of humans in the cosmos. Vainio introduces cosmology from a "state of the question" perspective, examining the history of the idea in dialogue with C. S. Lewis. This work, which is related to a NASA-funded project on astrobiology, ties into the ongoing debate on the relationship between Christian theism and scientific worldview and shows what the stakes are for religion and theology in the rise of modern science.
Olli-Pekka Vainio (DrTheol, Habil, University of Helsinki) is university lecturer of systematic theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He previously served as a resident scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry and has authored or edited numerous volumes, most recently Disagreeing Virtuously: Religious Conflict in Interdisciplinary Perspective.
ContentsIntroduction: Close Encounters1. Every Saga Has a Beginning: Philosophical Cosmologies in the Ancient World2. The Voyage Home: Cosmos in Early Christian Thought3. Resistance Is Futile: Galileo, Newton, and Darwin4. All These Worlds: On the Multiverse5. If It's Just Us, It Seems Like an Awful Waste of Space: On Human Uniqueness6. Infinite Space, Infinite Terror: Our Cosmic (In)Significance7. In Space No One Can Hear You Scream? God and Being8. There Is No Gene for the Human Spirit: Images of God9. Come with Me If You Want to Live: Incarnations10. To Boldly Go: Beings in Search of Greater UnderstandingIndexes