Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science

Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science

Greenwood, Kyle

Paperback

Religion General Astronomy & SpaceBible Studies

Publisher Price: $33.99

ISBN10: 0830840788
ISBN13: 9780830840786
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: Oct 3 2015
Pages: 251
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Christians often claim to hold a biblical worldview. But what about a biblical cosmos view? From the beginning of Genesis we encounter a vaulted dome above the earth, a firmament, like the ceiling of a planetarium. Elsewhere we read of the earth sitting on pillars. What does the dome of heaven have to do with deep space? Even when the biblical language is clearly poetic, it seems to be funded by a very different understanding of how the cosmos is put together. As Kyle Greenwood shows, the language of the Bible is also that of the ancient Near Eastern palace, temple and hearth. There was no other way of thinking or speaking of earth and sky or the sun, moon and stars. But when the psalmist looked at the heavens, the delicate fingerwork of God, it evoked wonder. Even today it is astronomy and cosmology that invoke our awe and point toward the depths of divine mystery.

Also in

Bible Studies

View All