Cosmos and Revelation: Reimagining God’s Creation in the Age of Science

by Peter R. Stork

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2021

Overview

Science and technology have profoundly altered the cosmic and societal perceptions of the world. Regrettably, the Christian imagination has not kept pace. Most believers still adhere to pre-scientific views. Cosmos and Revelation urges the Christian community to reimagine God’s creation by engaging the data of science. For if God has indeed brought forth an intelligible world for us to explore through scientific research, those who profess this faith ought to, as a minimum, allow scientific findings to expand their theological horizon. Drawing on his scientific qualification and academic background in theology, Peter R. Stork opens several windows on God’s creation, from galactic star nurseries to the wonderland of living cells. After rereading Genesis 1 and 2, the author interlaces examples and reflections to present a coherent yet provocative sketch of the new landscape that spreads out before us, leaving it to his readers to intuit for themselves the immensities Christians are challenged to embrace in the age of science.

Praise for Cosmos and Revelation

“Stork’s search for coherence in reimagining God’s creation guides him into cosmology and astrophysics, chemistry and biochemistry, and evolutionary anthropology and neurology, along with religious studies, biblical interpretation, and theology. Brooding over Stephen Hawking’s question—‘What breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?’—electrifies the author’s greatly expanded vision of the Creator and of creation as a cosmic event, in whose finely tuned beginnings and complex history human existence is astonishingly deeply rooted.”

—Raymond Canning, Honorary Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Australian Catholic University

Product Details

• Title: Cosmos and Revelation: Reimagining God’s Creation in the Age of Science
• Author: Peter R. Stork
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781666721553, 9781666721546, 9781666730272, 1666721557, 1666721549, 1666730270
• Resource ID: LLS:9781666721553
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:54:40Z

About the Author

Peter R. Stork is an independent researcher, a former Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Science and Technology (ISCAST). His interests are big-picture concerns like theology and science, the crisis of human rights, and René Girard’s cultural anthropology. He resides with his wife, Barbara, in Sydney, Australia, and is the author of Human Rights in Crisis: A Cultural Critique and several journal articles.