COSMOLOGY IN THE WORK OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT
COSMOLOGY IN THE WORK OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT

Summary/Abstract: The universe has always challenged the human mind, the seen and the unseen world has put man in face of a challenge to unravel its mysteries. With the appearance of the Torah, the Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses (Gale, Hugh, Coomber, 2016, p. 70), (even though none of them explicitly states that Moses was the author) of the Biblical account of Genesis, things start to settle down, not to mention the inherent challenges of questions that needed more clarification about the beginnings of the universe (from the famous Big Bang theory to evolutionary theories, etc.) Absolute divinity or certain gods were seen only as demiurges who processed pre-existing matter. At other times the world was seen as an emanation of the being of divinity. The pantheism of ancient thought transformed man into a wheel of a huge mechanism that relentlessly crushed any aspiration for freedom (Pr. Dumitru Popescu, 1993, p. 76).

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