All religions make statements about God or the Absolute and about "the beginning": about the beginning of the world and the beginning and nature of the human person. Propositions about God, the human person, and the world, statements about God's eternity or process of becoming, about the status and nature of the human person as the "image of God," and about the beginning of the world are woven into "religious speculations about the beginning." The theology, anthropology, and cosmology of the world religions determine the image of the human person and the image of the world in the world...