On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (Theology and the Sciences) - Softcover

Murphy, Nancey; Ellis, George F. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800629833 ISBN 13: 9780800629830

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1996

Synopsis

What is the ethical import of contemporary scientific cosmology? How does our understanding of the universe relate to our most pressing social concerns? How do the disparate fields of theology, ethics, and the sciences relate to each other? Murphy and Ellis offer a coherent construction of these relations and show how a particular moral vision-a "kenotic" ethic-is supported "from below" by the social sciences and "from above" by theology. The theological import of contemporary cosmology, they argue, points ultimately to an ethic that centers on self-sacrifice and nonviolence. In ambition, rigor, and scale, in its search for an integrated and coherent worldview at a time of unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, readers will find this volume daring and important.

About this title

About the Author:

George F. R. Ellis is Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Visiting Professor of Astronomy at the University of London, and President of the Royal Society of South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0800629833
• ISBN 13: 9780800629830
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288