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August 09, 2005

Ch. XII. Q. 71. Cosmology

i. COSMOLOGY is that part of Dogmatics which treats of the creation, development and ordering of all things by God. As here treated, it includes (a) Cosmology Proper, or the creation and government of the universe; (b) Angelology, or the doctrine of angels; (c) Anthropology, or the doctrine of man. In philosophical use Cosmology treats of the universe in all its fundamental aspects.1

ii. Cosmogony signifies an account of how the universe originated. There are many cosmogonies, and they are reckoned with in Comparative Theology.2

1 See Catholic Encycopedia, q. v.; Baldwin, Dic. of Philos., s. v. "Nature (philosophy of)".

2 Cf. J.A. Maculloch, Compar. Theol., ch. V; Hastings, Dic. of Bible, s. v. "Cosmogony and Cosmology" (several arts. with bibliog.); Cath. Encyc., q. v.

Posted by AKMA at August 9, 2005 11:32 AM

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