The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe

A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration

Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe—including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins—have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life’s awakening to interiority and religious awareness. Science may illuminate the outside story of the universe, but a full telling of the cosmic story cannot ignore the inside development that interiority represents.
 
Haught addresses two primary questions: what does the arrival of religion tell us about the universe, and what does our understanding of the cosmos as an unfinished drama tell us about religion? The history of religion may be ambiguous and sometimes even barbarous, he asserts, but its role in the story of cosmic emergence and awakening must be taken into account.

• Resting on the Future: Catholic Theology for an Unfinished Universe
• Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril
• Incarnation: A New Evolutionary Threshold
• Hunger for Wholeness, A: Soul, Space, and Transcendence
• The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
• The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View
• Journey of the Universe
• Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
• Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision
• The Image of the Unseen God: Catholicity, Science, and Our Evolving Understanding of God (Catholicity in an Evolving Universe Series)