Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: The Interplay of Cosmology and Theology in the Constitution of the Human Condition

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Interplay of Cosmology and Theology in the Constitution of the Human Condition

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (10)
Authors: Nesteruk, Alexei V.
Contact information: Nesteruk, Alexei V.: University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, Lion Gate Building St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0001-6318-7907
Keywords: cosmology; dialogue (between cosmology and theology); history; humanity; phenomenality; theology; universe
Abstract: The major topic of this article is the thematic centrality of humanity in the dialogue between cosmology and theology. Considered in a historical and philosophical perspective, it is demonstrated that this dialogue makes sense only as an intertwining hermeneutics of the human condition and thus represents an open-ended enterprise with no hope for the removal of the difference and distinction between cosmology and theology’s representation of the sense of existence. Both, cosmology and theology deal with two different phenomenalities of existence present in one and the same humanity which involve different and irreducible to each other narratives. Correspondingly, the dialogue between cosmology and theology represents another way of explicating the famous philosophical paradox of subjectivity. Cosmology is relevant to theology because it explicates the necessary conditions for existence of theologians as well as the physical possibility of the incarnation as its central dogma. Theology is relevant to cosmology because it interprets the very possibility of cosmology as knowledge of the cosmos referring to the human reason as a component of the human created condition in the image of the creator. The conclusion is that both cosmology and theology complement each other in the constitution and explication of the human condition
Pages: 1404–1444
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0898
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145416

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