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Toward a Cosmic Theology considers topics and areas from Christian revelation as they draw on forces and worlds, insights and developments, now unfolded by science. It explores such topics as: the vastness of the universe of nature; implications for what God might be like; relationships of the Trinity to being and evolution; divine presence and the world of the universe and of the subatomic realm; extraterrestrials; time, the future, and change and transformation; the personal and religious world as a society of planets and their cultures. The author draws on the theologies of earlier theologians like Origen, Thomas Aquinas, and more recent ones such as Yves Congar, Karl Rahner, Douglas Vakoch, John Haught, and Jacques Arnould. Thomas F. O'Meara, OP, is the author of over a dozen books in theology, including Theology of Ministry and God in the World. He taught at Aquinas Institute of Theology and served as the Warren Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame; he has served as visiting professor at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Wartburg Lutheran Seminary, and the Dominican Institute of Theology, Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. †

These essays are an important resource for American medievalists. They show that St. Albert was not only a scientist and philosopher, but a theologian and a political mediator as well.They range from Cardinal Lehmann's overview of St. Albert's conception of theology to a comparison of Albert's and Thomas' commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew by Ulrich Horst, to Erhard Schlieter's discussion of artistic portrayals of St. Albert in art. While St. Albert is the subject of a great deal of scholarly research in his homeland, he is less well known in the United States. Fr. O'Meara's translations and study guide will help bring the life and thought of this remarkable medieval scholar, who was considered to be an "astonishing wonder" by his contemporaries, to an American audience.This volume is being published by New Priory Press to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great which is based in Chicago.