Scripture and Cosmology – Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science

Kyle Greenwood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

251 Seiten

2015
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4078-6 (ISBN)

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Kyle Greenwood introduces readers to ancient Near Eastern cosmology and the ways in which the Bible speaks within that context. He then traces the way the Bible was read through Aristotelian and Copernican cosmologies and discusses how its ancient conceptions should be understood in light of Scripture?s authority and contemporary science.

Christians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view?
From the beginning of Genesis we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a "firmament," like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded by a very different understanding of how the cosmos is put together.
As Kyle Greenwood shows, the language of the Bible is also that of the ancient Near Eastern palace, temple and hearth. There was no other way of thinking or speaking of earth and sky or the sun, moon and stars. But when the psalmist looked at the heavens, the delicate fingerwork of God, it evoked wonder. Even today it is astronomy and cosmology that invoke our awe and point toward the depths of divine mystery.
Greenwood helps us see how the best Christian thinkers have viewed the cosmos in light of Scripture—and grappled with new understandings as science has advanced from Aristotle to Copernicus to Galileo and the galaxies of deep space. It's a compelling story that both illuminates the text of Scripture and helps us find our own place in the tradition of faithful Christian thinking and interpretation.

Kyle Greenwood (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew language at Colorado Christian University. He is the author of several studies of the Old Testament in its ancient Near Eastern environment.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Scripture in Context

Part One: Scripture and Cosmos in Cultural Context

2 Ancient Near Eastern Cosmologies

3 Cosmology in Scripture

4 Cosmology and Cosmogony in Scripture

Part Two: Cosmology and Scripture in Historical Context

5 Scripture and Aristotelian Cosmology

6 Scripture and Copernican Cosmology

Part Three: Scripture and Science

7 Cosmology and the Authority of Scripture

8 The Authority of Scripture and the Issue of Science

Bibliography

Author and Work Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2015
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-8308-4078-8 / 0830840788
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4078-6 / 9780830840786
Zustand	Neuware