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Light from the East

Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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Light from the East

Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

In this unique volume, a new and distinctive perspective on hotly debated issues in science and religion emerges from the unlikely ancient Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. Alexei Nesteruk reveals how the Orthodox tradition, deeply rooted in Greek Patristic thought, can contribute importantly in a way that the usual Western sources do not. Orthodox thought, he holds, profoundly and helpfully relates the experience of God to our knowledge of the world. His masterful historical introduction to the Orthodox traditions not only surveys key features of its theology but highlights its ontology of participation and communion. From this Nesteruk derives Orthodoxy's unique approach to theological and scientific attribution. Theology identifies the underlying principles (logoi) in scientific affirmations. Nesteruk then applies this methodology to key issues in cosmology: the presence of the divine in creation, the theological meaning of models of creation, the problem of time, and the validity of the anthropic principle, especially as it relates to the emergence of humans and the Incarnation. Nesteruk's unique synthesis is not a valorization of Eastern Orthodox thought so much as an influx of startlingly fresh ideas about the character of science itself and an affirmation of the ultimate religious and theological value of the whole scientific enterprise.

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1451403577

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The Universe as Communion

Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science

By: Alexei Nesteruk

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The Universe as Communion

Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science

By: Alexei Nesteruk

In this book a new and distinctive approach to the science-religion debate emerges from a synthesis of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition with phenomenological thought. Developing ideas of Greek Patristics the author treats faith, with its sense of the Divine presence, and knowledge of the universe, as two modes of communion which constitute the human condition. The modern opposition between science and theology (which is historically paralleled with the Church's split between East and West, and monasticism and Christianity in the world), is treated as the split between two intentionalities of the overall human subjectivity. The human person, as a centre of their reconciliation, becomes the major theme of the dialogue between science and theology. It is argued that the reconciliation of science and theology is not simply an academic exercise; it requires an existential change, a change of mind (metanoia), which cannot be effected without ecclesial involvement. Then the person who effectuates the mediation between science and theology is raised to the level of "cosmic priesthood" while the mediation acquires the features of a "cosmic Eucharist" in which all divisions and tensions in creation and humanity are removed. It is through this existential change accompanied by phenomenological analysis that scientific theories can be subjected to a certain "vision" through which the hidden ultimate goal (telos) of scientific research (as the explication of the human condition) shows its kinship to the saving telos advocated by Christian faith. The opposition between theology and science is thus being para-eucharistically overcome.

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God, Humanity, and the Universe

At the Crossroads of Christian Theology, Modern Cosmology, and Astrobiology

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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God, Humanity, and the Universe

At the Crossroads of Christian Theology, Modern Cosmology, and Astrobiology

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

The main objective of this book on cosmology and theology is to reassess the current approach to research in the field of interaction, mediation, and dialogue between modern cosmology and Christian theology (Eastern Orthodox theology in particular). This project was part of wide-ranging cross-disciplinary research undertaken by scientists, philosophers, and theologians across the world within the framework of Science & Orthodoxy around the World, run by the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens) from 2019 to 2023. The project and this publication contribute to the large-scale academic activity in the field of science and religion (or science and theology) with a particular accent on the contribution of Eastern Orthodox theology to this dialogue, as well as to the venues of advancement of this theology given the recent breakthroughs in cosmology, physics, and philosophy. The book also underlines the importance of expressing cosmological ideas theologically, symbolically, and scientifically in the wide context of culture and humanity's sociopolitical and environmental predicaments.

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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

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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The Dialogue between Theology and Science as a Hermeneutics of the Human Condition

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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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God, Humanity, and the Universe

At the Crossroads of Christian Theology, Modern Cosmology, and Astrobiology

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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Light from the East

Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

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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

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Analogia

Science and Orthodox Theology

By: Nikolaos Loudovikos,Stoyan Tanev,Georgi Kapriev,Jean-Claude Larchet,Alexei Nesteruk,Georgios J. Gounaris,John Breck,Tim Labron,Athanasios S. Fokas,Gayle E. Woloschak

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Analogia

Science and Orthodox Theology

By: Nikolaos Loudovikos,Stoyan Tanev,Georgi Kapriev,Jean-Claude Larchet,Alexei Nesteruk,Georgios J. Gounaris,John Breck,Tim Labron,Athanasios S. Fokas,Gayle E. Woloschak

“…post-modern thought allowed the emergence of the question of Metaphysics again. This also makes possible a rethinking of the science-theology relation in a new light. The aim of this volume is precisely to shed a glimpse of this new light upon this ongoing conversation, by now involving Orthodox Theology in it. The possible contribution of Orthodox Theology to this discussion, in the context of the Christian Greek-Western world, can be path-breaking…” (From the Note of the Senior Editor) Contents: 1. Patristic Views On The Nature And Status Of Scientific Knowledge, JEAN-CLAUDE LARCHET, 2. The Dialogue between Orthodox Theology and Science as Explication of the Human Condition, ALEXEI NESTERUK, 3. Actor-Network Theory and Byzantine Philosophy, GEORGI KAPRIEV, 4. The Cosmos in the Bible and science, GEORGIOS GOUNARIS, 5. Quantum Physics and Christian Faith, JOHN BRECK, 6. Exploring Analogy of Debates to Approach the Encounter between Orthodox Theology and Quantum Physics, STOYAN TANEV, 7. Logic of Mystery: Reading Wittgenstein in parallel to Orthodox theology and quantum theory, TIM LABRON, 8. Psychoanalysis And Eschatology, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, 9. Theology and the Discovery of the Unconscious: Preliminary Remarks, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, 10. Ways of Comprehending, ATHANASIOS FOKAS, 11. Evolution, Genetics, and Nature: Implications for Orthodox, GAYLE E. WOLOSCHACK

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The Universe as Communion

Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science

By: Alexei Nesteruk

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The Sense of the Universe

Philosophical Explication of the Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology

By: Alexei V. Nesteruk

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Philosophical Explication of the Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology

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The Sense of the Universe

Philosophical Explication of Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology

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Philosophical Explication of Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology

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The Sense of the Universe deals with existential and phenomenological reflection upon modern cosmology with the aim to reveal hidden theological commitments in cosmology related to the mystery of human existence. The book proposes a new approach to the dialogue between science and theology based in a thorough philosophical analysis of acting forms of subjectivity involved in the study of the world and in religious experience. The uniqueness of this book is that it uses recent advances in phenomenological philosophy and philosophical theology in order to accentuate the existential meaning of cosmology as the discourse that ultimately explicates the human condition. The objective of the book is not to make a comparative analysis of the cosmological scientific narrative and that of the Bible, or the Fathers of the Church (in what concerns the structure of the universe), but to reveal the presence of a hidden theological dimension in cosmology originating in the God-given ability of humanity to discern and disclose the sense of creation. The book contributes to the synthesis of appropriation and incorporation of modern philosophical ideas in Christian theology, in particular its Eastern Orthodox form.

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