Cosmology in Theological Perspective – Understanding Our Place in the Universe

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