Nature, God, and the New Cosmology

Seminary: Drew Theological School

Location: 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940, United States

Course number: TPHL 692

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Website: www.drew.edu/theological

Course Description

An examination of some of the implications of the new cosmology for traditional ideas. The first part of this course looks at several conceptions of nature as they illuminate science and theology. The second part of the course probes into the new sciences of complexity and chaos theory insofar as they, too, illuminate the relationship between God and nature. The final part of the course examines current cosmological theories, with particular attention to those of Hawking. Topics include creation and the Big Bang, the origin of time, the no-boundary proposal, the Anthropic principle, the status of eschatology, and the problem of teleology.