ABSTRACT
In this paper I will attempt to respond theologically in some detail to the account of contemporary cosmology given here by William Stoeger. 2 To do so, I will first offer a brief account of the biblical sources for the doctrine of creation, and then outline in bare form several major historical developments of the doctrine from the Patristics to the watershed of the Enlightenment. I pick up the story again in the contemporary period to examine several positions on the relation between the theology of creation and scientific cosmology taken in response to this history. After this review, I defend an “interaction” model that will enable a bridge to be built between creatio ex nihilo and the “t = 0” in Big Bang cosmology through the philosophical categories of dependence and finitude. Finally, I will show how this philosophically mediated link between creation and cosmology can be modified so as to take account of quantum cosmology.
