God in Cosmic History: Responding to my Critics
God in Cosmic History: Responding to my Critics
Ted Peters
ABSTRACT
Here is the key question around which this Author-Meets-Critic revolves: can we raise the question of God’s existence or God’s grace in a meaningful way while studying a combination of natural history and human history? No, say big historians; we cannot ask the God question. Religion maybe, but certainly not God. It follows that we need more than just Big History which looks at nature through scientific lenses. We need Cosmic History to pose the God question, and even to discern human meaning within an otherwise impersonal universe. In this article, I entertain criticisms of my book, God in Cosmic History, raised by Lowell Gustafson, President of the International Big History Association; Ann Milliken Pederson, Professor of Theology at Augustana College in Sioux Falls SD; Nancy Howell, Professor of Theology at St. Paul Seminary in Kansas City; George Murphy, physicist and pastor in Akron OH; and distinguished evolutionary biologist and winner of the Presidential Medal for Science, Francisco J. Ayala. I offer responses to each critique.
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June 2017
Vol. 4, Sp. Iss. a Pages 1-36
