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Athens and/or Jerusalem
Author(s) -
PELIKAN JAROSLAV
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb02124.x
Subject(s) - apostle , divergence (linguistics) , conjunction (astronomy) , philosophy , universe , cosmic cancer database , classics , physics , art , theology , astronomy , linguistics
A bstract : For all three cosmic questions—“Did the universe have a beginning?”“Is the universe designed?” and “Are we alone?”—it was the conjunction as well as the divergence between Athens (Classical philosophy, especially Plato's Timaeus and Aristotle's Physics ) and Jerusalem (the Bible, especially the Book of Genesis and the apostle Paul) that illumined the questions themselves, provided material for the answers, and set the terms for the subsequent discussion of them in later centuries.