Cosmology & faith

Religions strive to break through the physical limits that cut human existence off from the mysterious worlds to which their symbols and stories point.

What is physical cosmology?

However, physical cosmology is essentially a twentieth century science which emerged as a result of the discovery about 1930 that the universe is in a state of expansion that possibly started a finite time ago.

When did the cosmology-theology issue start?

At the same time the cosmology-theology issue began to appear frequently in conferences on science and religion with participants from physics, cosmology, theology, and philosophy, and sometimes also from history of science.
Among the early conferences of this kind was one in Denver in 1974 and another in Oxford in 1979.

Why did Jesus believe in a cosmological universe?

He thought that such an eternal and evolving universe revealed the creator’s continual activity and explicitly presented his cosmological view as support for the doctrines of Christianity in general and for the immanence of God in particular.