Sentences with phrase «cosmic religious feeling»

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Yet a feeling of cosmic homelessness clings to Christian religious teachings, and to academic theology as well.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

The courage to accept the restlessness and loss in the cosmic adventure is given in a genuinely religious faith that all achievement of intensity of feeling as well as all perishing is finally salvaged and creatively transformed by God's own experience.

Cosmic Coincidence Einstein once wrote that for a scientist, «religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law» and that «this feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work.»