146 COSMOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, AND THE TRAVAIL OF BIBLICAL LANGUAGE let us now return to biblical theology to try to show just how serious it is We have said that there is a vast differ ence between ourselves and the Bible con cerning cosmology and so concerning the concrete character of the divine activity in
Prior to clarifying the type of ontology used in these studies, it is important to define ontology Ontology is defined by (Crotty: 2003:10) as “the study of being” It is concerned with “what kind of world we are investigating, with the nature of existence, with the structure of reality as such” Guba and Lincolin (1989:83)
Cosmology usually intrudes into other correlated disciplines such as astrophysics, astrometry, astronomy, astrodynamics, astrogeology and also astrology though in a much narrower way 7 The Relationship between Cosmology and Metaphysics Having defined cosmology we shall now explain in few words what Metaphysics is