The meaning of the universe. On hidden theological devotion in modern cosmological narrative

The theme of this book, on the one hand, is the dialogue between Christian theology and science, on the other hand, it conducts a philosophical explication of motives that drive cosmology with an emphasis on the central role of the human personality in the formation of the meaning of what is called the “universe”. Moreover, since a person is understood in the context of relations with God, a cosmic story articulated by science is interpreted as included in the order of the human history of salvation, and not vice versa. The essence of what is called theological devotion can be understood as the presence of the Theological Gomunkulus in any question about the meaning of the Universe as a meaning of human existence in general. In the context of phenomenological analysis, this means that we deliberately refuse to carry out the reduction of the divine, based on the fact that the very fact of the articulating universe of consciousness stems from the creation of man in a divine image. Theological devotion corresponds to the view of the Universe as the horizon of all meanings and the phenomenalization of the reality given to man in the fact of his embodied life, so that the oversaturating intuitive reality of the Universe forms the structure of human subjectivity. The cosmological discourse is then interpreted as explicating existential anxieties (cosmic homelessness) and the form of representing the ultimate states (birth and death) Knight is intended for a wide audience that is interested in the dialogue between science and theology, philosophy of cosmology, phenomenological philosophy, Christian theology