CONGRESS CANCELED Creation ex Nihilo
Description
We distinguish between the scientific cosmology developed in the twentieth century and the theological cosmology characteristic of medieval thought. Yet they ask similar questions: Is the universe finitely old? Will it ever cease to be? What pertains necessarily to any state of affairs (or entity) that can account for the existence of a universe? Our session studies medieval theorizing about creation ex nihilo in particular and how this provides a theoretical framework that is relevant (and often adapted) to contemporary scientific accounts as they involve singularity theories and a big bang cosmology. Alexander W. Hall
CONGRESS CANCELED Creation ex Nihilo
Bernhard 211
We distinguish between the scientific cosmology developed in the twentieth century and the theological cosmology characteristic of medieval thought. Yet they ask similar questions: Is the universe finitely old? Will it ever cease to be? What pertains necessarily to any state of affairs (or entity) that can account for the existence of a universe? Our session studies medieval theorizing about creation ex nihilo in particular and how this provides a theoretical framework that is relevant (and often adapted) to contemporary scientific accounts as they involve singularity theories and a big bang cosmology. Alexander W. Hall