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Review Of Lisa Sideris, _Consecrating Science_, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Review Of Lisa Sideris, _Consecrating Science_, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Science, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
The Matter With Pantheism: On Shepherds And Goat-Gods And Mountains And Monsters, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
The Matter With Pantheism: On Shepherds And Goat-Gods And Mountains And Monsters, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Introduction: Tangled Matters (With Catherine Keller), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Introduction: Tangled Matters (With Catherine Keller), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
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Worlds Without End: The Many Lives Of The Multiverse, Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives Of The Multiverse, Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Worlds without End explores the recent proliferation of "multiverse" cosmologies, which imagine our universe as just one of a vast, even infinite, number of others. While this idea has been the stuff of philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now under consideration as a scientific hypothesis, with wildly different models emerging from the fields of cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory. Beginning with the Atomistic and Stoic philosophies of ancient Greece, this book assembles a genealogy of the multiverse, seeking to map contemporary models in relation to their forerunners, and to ask why the proposition has become such …
Cosmic Singularities: On The Nothing And The Sovereign, Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Cosmic Singularities: On The Nothing And The Sovereign, Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Until very recently, the creation myth of secular modernity has been the hot big bang hypothesis: the explosion of our single universe out of a single point. Physicists concede that in its traditional form, this story performs an uncanny recapitulation of Christian creation theology: the universe bursts forth suddenly, in a flood of light, out of nothing. As many contemporary thinkers have argued, however, the “nothing” of Christian orthodoxy is neither scripturally nor doctrinally self-evident; rather, it is the product of ontopolitical efforts to secure the sovereignty of God. This article traces the twinned concepts of sovereignty and nothingness through …