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1 دانشجوی دکترا، گروه فلسفه و کلام اسلامی، دانشکدۀ الهیات و معارف اهل بیت (ع)، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران.
2 دانشیار، گروه فلسفه و کلام اسلامی، دانشکدۀ الهیات و معارف اهل بیت (ع)، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
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نویسندگان [English]
According to the traditional belief of monotheistic theologians, God created the universe ex nihilo, and the cosmos is not eternal. In contrast, Paul Steinhardt, one of the most prominent contemporary physicists, by proposing the Cyclic Universe Model, conceives the cosmos as composed of endless cosmological cycles. Emphasizing the existence of a universe without a beginning, he seeks to present a picture of the world’s eternity and its independence from the hypothesis of a Creator God. This article first introduces and explicates Steinhardt’s cyclic cosmological model, then extracts its philosophical–theological implications, and finally analyzes and evaluates them based on Mulla Sadra’s Transcendent Philosophy. Steinhardt interprets the absence of a temporal beginning as negating the necessity of an external Creator and reduces the question of creation to a purely scientific analysis. On the other hand, within Islamic philosophy, Mulla Sadra at times also introduces a cyclical interpretation of the structure of the cosmos; however, his renewed notion of the origination of the world (ḥudūth al-ʿālam) enables a theistic rereading of the cyclic model. This paper demonstrates that our understanding of origination (ḥudūth) in the framework of the Transcendent Theosophy can reinterpret the cyclic structure of the universe as an expression of the continuous manifestation of the Absolute Causal Order. Accordingly, it resolves the apparent contradiction between physical eternity and temporal origination.
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