Theology and Science ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 , DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2021.1982251 Steven Nemes 1
ABSTRACT
Some are of the opinion that cosmological predictions regarding the future of the physical universe contradict or challenge the Christian eschatological hope for a “new heavens and new earth” (2 Pet. 3:13). The present essay argues that cosmological science is irrelevant to classical theistic Christian eschatology on two grounds. First, cosmology does not substantially inform Christian eschatology, which already affirmed the demise of the cosmos on theological grounds. Second, cosmology does not challenge eschatology if a classical theistic conception of God and its corollary doctrines of creatio ex nihilo and divine conservation and concurrence are admitted.
中文翻译:
当代宇宙学与古典有神论基督教末世论无关
摘要
有些人认为,关于物理宇宙未来的宇宙学预测与基督教对“新天新地”的末世希望相矛盾或挑战(彼后 3:13)。本文基于两个理由认为宇宙学科学与古典有神论基督教末世论无关。首先,宇宙论并没有实质性地告知基督教末世论,后者已经在神学的基础上肯定了宇宙的消亡。其次,如果承认经典的有神论的上帝概念及其衍生的创世论和神性守恒与并发学说,宇宙学就不会挑战末世论。