The Heavenly Gaze

Riffing on Stephen Hawking among others, Mark Vernon wonders if cosmology could be the new theology?

Cosmology is so popular, not just because of the science, but because it allows us to ask the big questions — where we come from, who we are, where we're going. It's metaphysics by other means. If the Scholastic theologians of the Middle Ages liked to speculate about the number of angels on the heads of pins, we today like to speculate about the number of dimensions wrapped up in string...