I have just updated my book God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe. All three of my books are now available, free of charge, as e-books. To download the pdf files, just click on the links below. For some reason google.drive, where the pdf files are stored, can't handle epub files. If you prefer that format, please send me an email at byl@twu.ca. If you spot any typos or have any comments, please send me an email as well.
1. God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe.
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Cosmology is the most important subject in
the world.
Why? Because it is the story of the entire
world: its origin, structure, purpose, and destiny. As people in that world,
its story necessarily forms the background for our own personal story. It concerns
our deepest beliefs, values, and hopes.
Our cosmology forms the basis for our response
to the most fundamental questions about our existence. Our cosmological beliefs
shape our morality, religion, and culture. They largely influence our
worldview.
Our prime aim is to examine and develop
cosmology from a Christian perspective. Very briefly, Christianity holds that
God created, from nothing, a two-realm universe consisting of both a visible and
a heavenly part, whose history follows God’s glorious plan. The original
creation was good. It culminated in the creation of Adam, created in the image
of God, to serve him and glorify Him. Unhappily, Adam’s fall into sin corrupted
man, along with the entire physical world. Happily, man can be redeemed through
the gracious work of Christ. After the Day of Judgment, believers will be
transformed to rule with Christ on a renewed Earth cleansed from sin and
corruption.
The main challenger to Christian cosmology is Big Bang cosmology, the mainstream secular cosmology currently embraced by most Western scientists and scholars.
This book aims to probe beyond the usual
questions of origins and to dig deeper into various underlying philosophical
and theological issues. The emphasis will be on the philosophical presuppositions
and theological implications of modern cosmology, on the one hand, and, on the
other, the significance of the Bible for cosmology.
To be accessible to the general reader, I
assume no prior technical knowledge of cosmology. Although specific
cosmological models tend to be highly mathematical, this book has only a few
simple equations.
2. The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math, and Meaning.
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This book is about the war between God and fallen man. It concerns the double challenge, between God and man, to establish who will rule. The war will be addressed at the level of competing worldviews, and their ability to explain reality and assign meaning. The battleground will range over the realms of matter, mind, and math.
The prime purpose is the apologetic one of showing the superiority of the Christian worldview over its main competitors. The main thesis is that only Christianity offers a cohesive, meaningful worldview. The challenges of modern naturalism and post-modern relativism ultimately self-destruct.
This book is addressed to the intelligent non-expert. Although the discussion will range over various issues in science, math, philosophy, and theology, no prior knowledge of these disciplines is assumed. The aim is to convey the basic thrust of the arguments in non-technical language, as simply as possible. Nevertheless, some of these issues are very subtle, requiring the reader's close attention.
Its description is as follows:
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2 comments:
Thanks for these. I look forward to reading. Much appreciated.
Dave Van
You're welcome, Dave.
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