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The Universe as Communion presents a new and distinctive approach to the science-religion debate. Developing ideas from the Church Fathers, Alexei Nesteruk treats faith—with its sense of the divine presence—and knowledge of the universe as two modes of communion which constitute the human condition. The modern opposition between science and theology is treated as the split between two...

that the whole creation is recapitulated from the perspective of the Kingdom of God: it is in Christ’s incarnation that the sense of the temporal span of the created universe is revealed starting from its ‘beginning’, when the universe was created and fashioned to be prepared to receive God in flesh, and finishing by its ‘end’, that is, the Age to Come, the eschatological future of the Kingdom. By pointing towards the Age to Come in his parables Christ encourages his disciples and all Christians
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