Are there methodologies that view history from an Einsteinian perspective of time and space? If time and space are curved rather than linear, and we flatten them out. Doesn't that mean the way we record historical events is skewed?
Theologians and philosophers around the globe are adapting the world view developed before the Theory of Relativity was made known. Theologians like Ilia Delio, OSF is on the leading edge of this movement within the Catholic faith, but she comes at it from an interfaith perspective.
The Copernican world view inexorably changed the Church and its theology despite vigorous resistance against it by men and women bound by the disproved Ptolemaic construct of the cosmos.
The current shift to an Einsteinian view of time and space is having profound ramifications for our understanding of God and theology. The movement is under siege by those who stand on an authority set in the clay foundation of an old-world construct that crumbling beneath them. The movement forward is unimpeded by that resistance.
The earth is not at the center of the universe and man in not the apex of creation. Humanity, as we know it, is not the final word of the creation story. This does not mean that God or Christ are irrelevant, but the traditional depiction of God and Christ distorted by an anthropocentric bias must be set aside in order for the fuller perspective to be seen.
Reflections from Ilia Delio retreat based on her new book A Hunger for
Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence.
