Wallace, Paul (Professor of physics and astronomy),
Stars beneath us finding God in the evolving cosmos / [electronic resource] :
Paul Wallace.
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 153 pages) :) illustrations.
- Theology for the people .
- Theology for the people. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references.
Is this what love looks like? -- Obsolete cosmos, obsolete God -- The fifth dentist -- An ash heap with a view -- Two-by-two came the epidexipteryxes and vulcanodons -- The darkness of God -- Learning to love Leviathan -- Jesus evolves -- The whirlwind principle -- Coming home.
In ways both confident and gentle, Stars Beneath Us brilliantly shows God's presence in the ever-evolving cosmos. Relying on his upbringing as a Baptist, his doctoral work in experimental nuclear physics and gamma-ray astronomy, and his ordination to the gospel ministry in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Paul Wallace weaves a book unlike any other in faith and science literature. Instead of engaging the debates of natural theology or proofs for the existence of God, this is a call to courage for those who fear a true encounter with the cosmos will distance them from God. With a winsome mix of compelling personal narrative and insightful biblical analysis, the author calls into perspective the scale of the cosmos and our place within it. Relying on a theology of openness to the world, Stars Beneath Us will inspire readers to engage with the natural world in new ways and find God, as it turns out, everywhere.