Theology and Cosmology: Philosophical Foundations and the Ways of their Interrelation
The article considers philosophical problems of the dialogue between modern cosmology and theology. One argues that there is no existential contradiction between two views of the universe because they originate in one and the same human condition. Thus the thematic centrality of humanity in the dialogue between cosmology and theology is discussed. It is demonstrated that this dialogue makes sense as an hermeneutics of the human condition. Both, cosmology and theology deal with two different phenomenalities of existence present in one and the same humanity which involve different and irreducible to each other narratives. Cosmology is relevant to theology because it explicates the necessary conditions for existence of theologians as well as the physical possibility of the incarnation as its central dogma. Theology is relevant to cosmology because it interprets the very possibility of cosmology as knowledge of the cosmos referring to the human reason as a component of the human created condition in the image of the creator. The conclusion is that both cosmology and theology complement each other in the constitution and explication of the human condition.