Scientific cosmology meets western theology: a historical perspective

Traditional sacred geography of Christendom met a challenge not so much from Copernicus' heliocentrism per se as from the greatly expanded vision of the cosmos that it ushered in. The twentieth-century view of the vastness of both space and time has brought revolutionary conceptual changes to the sacred landscape. From a theistic perspective, God is not simply the source of the Big Bang, but the Creator in the larger sense of designer and intender of the universe.