[September 2006 journal entry]
The story/play assumes a cosmology in which ‘God’ is ‘out there’, in which the Accuser and other angelic messengers are viewed as coming in/out of a celestial chamber ‘out there’, . . . (cf.1:6ff and many similar places in the story/play). How critical is this pre/non-scientific cosmology to the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm? I would argue it is essential to the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm, a necessity that becomes increasingly evident as one scans the 17th-century forward theological spectrum from ‘liberal’ across to ‘fundamentalist’. The assumed cosmology in the story/play is absolutely critical re the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm’s perspective on divine sovereignty.