TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Neville TI - Engaging the cosmos: astronomy, philosophy, and faith SN - 1903900662 (hbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 201/.65 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Brighton [England], Portland, OR PB - Sussex Academic Press KW - Religion KW - Cosmology KW - Astrobiology KW - Astrophysics N1 - Includes bibliogr. references (p. 312-341) and index; The heavens in history - The age of stone - Hammurabi to Ptolemy - Late antiquity to Copernicus - A Renaissance continuum - The cosmological revolution - The life dimension - Astrobiology - Consciousness - Utopia lost? - An end to nature? - Retreat from reason - Conflict in heaven - A dissolving heritage? - Judaism fulcral - Christ and the humanists - Countervalent Islam - Indian pluralism - Japanese togetherness - To here from eternity - Yearnings for belief - Creative convergence - Fulfilment regained? ER -