Pelikan J
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2001 Dec;950:17-27.
For all three cosmic questions--"Did the universe have a beginning?" "Is the universe designed?" and "Are we alone?"--it was the conjunction as well as the divergence between Athens (Classical philosophy, especially Plato's Timaeus and Aristotle's Physics) and Jerusalem (the Bible, especially the Book of Genesis and the apostle Paul) that illumined the questions themselves, provided material for the answers, and set the terms for the subsequent discussion of them in later centuries.
对于所有这三个宇宙问题——“宇宙有开端吗?”“宇宙是被设计的吗?”以及“我们是孤独的吗?”——正是雅典(古典哲学,尤其是柏拉图的《蒂迈欧篇》和亚里士多德的《物理学》)与耶路撒冷(《圣经》,尤其是《创世纪》和使徒保罗的书信)之间的契合与分歧,照亮了这些问题本身,为答案提供了素材,并为后世几个世纪对这些问题的后续讨论设定了条件。