The Cosmo

Evil, man, God and, fourthly, the cosmos. This is the sequence of themes that the Belgian thinker Adolphe Gesché develops in his peculiar dogmatic book God for thinking. Any theological reflection that wants to be made about the cosmos must strive to think about it from God's perspective. However, created reality is precisely the area where theology comes into conflict with experimental sciences. In fact, in modernity nature has become the exclusive preserve of these sciences, to the point of being considered the only ways of accessing the secrets that things keep within. Therefore, thinking about nature from God's perspective means first of all seeking a "new alliance" between science and theology, between natural laws that govern matter and salvific laws that direct history and the world towards a destiny that makes sense. With Heraclitus, man of every age is invited, in short, to understand creation as "God's game and risk."

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