HEAVENS ABOVE!
ANCIENT BIBLICAL COSMOLOGY AND THE MODERN WORLD
with Dr Robin Parry
Tuesday 22nd January – 8 pm
at Lindisfarne House, 4 Barbourne Terrace, Worcester WR1 3JS
Biblical understandings of the cosmos in which we live reflect ideas found across the ancient world. Often when we read the Bible it never even occurs to us that its authors thought about the universe differently from us and so we impose our modern views onto the ancient texts without realizing that we are doing so. However, when we do start to notice some of the differences between our modern cosmology and the Bible’s ancient cosmology, the biblical ideas can seem very strange.
In this talk, Dr Robin Parry will explore ancient Israelite views about the sky: the sun, moon, and stars, the solid sky-dome above the stars, the heavenly ocean, and God’s dwelling place in the invisible heavens beyond the sky-dome. He will consider the interesting and tricky question of how we can and should learn from such ancient thinking, even in an age of astrophysics.
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