I examine a tension between temporal and spatial conceptualization of the genesis of the cosmos to show how chronological characterization of ‘beginnings’ occludes ontological interpretation of our existential orientations, to help my audience distinguish symbolic expressions of wonder that the cosmos exists from explanations for it. I bring together resources from multiple intellectual and religious traditions to perform a philosophy of religions that goes beyond the narrowness, intellectualism, and insularity of institutionalized (analytic) philosophy of religion. I turn to Ibn Rushd, Tillich, Pamela Sue Anderson, and Sara Ahmed to expose problems of confusing symbols with concepts. I bring Aristotle, Nagarjuna, Maimonides, Kant, Wittgenstein, and Nasr together in conversation about the notion of a ‘beginning.’ Through this, I seek to shift questions of cosmic linearity to questions of spatial symbols of inclusivity and suggest that our orientation toward chronology distracts us from inclusive ontologies, inadvertently getting us stuck in imagistic representation of a closed cosmos rather than critical conceptualization of open symbols for an inclusive cosmos.

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宇宙是在何处而非何时“开始”的？

我研究了宇宙起源的时间和空间概念化之间的张力，以展示“开始”的时间顺序特征如何阻碍对我们存在取向的本体论解释，以帮助我的观众区分宇宙存在的奇迹的象征性表达与对宇宙的解释。我汇集了来自多种知识和宗教传统的资源，以表现一种超越制度化（分析）宗教哲学的狭隘、理性和孤立的宗教哲学。我求助于 Ibn Rushd、Tillich、Pamela Sue Anderson 和 Sara Ahmed，以揭示将符号与概念混淆的问题。我把亚里士多德、龙树菩萨、迈蒙尼德、康德、维特根斯坦和纳斯尔带到一起讨论“开始”的概念。通过这个，