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The Attractor and the Energy of Love
Author(s) -
Edwards Denis
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/erev.12031
Subject(s) - citation , attractor , context (archaeology) , computer science , energy (signal processing) , world wide web , history , mathematics , statistics , mathematical analysis , archaeology
In the Greek-speaking world in which the gospel was first preached and the doctrine of the Trinity emerged, permanence and stability were highly prized. Amidst the turmoil of personal and political life, the world itself seemed relatively stable. Our 21st-century worldview is radically different. After Einstein and Hubble, we know that we are part of an observable universe made up of more than a hundred billion galaxies, all of them in motion, a dynamic universe that has been expanding and evolving from a tiny, dense, and hot state over the last 13.7 billion years. And after Darwin, we know that all life on earth has evolved by means of natural selection from the first forms of microbial life that appeared on our planet about 3.7 billion years ago. At the same time we face a looming crisis of life on our planet because of human actions.