In the first section I surveyed some pre-modern perspectives on the cosmological which seemed – albeit at the cost of a liaison with archaic science – to give powerful theological expression to the principle that creation is through the Word. In the second section I proposed a scriptural cosmology, predicated upon an oscillation between sign and address. According to this view, the world and its objects are of God's making, and have a dual signifying function. They can be said both to refer and to address. Their referential function can be further classified into two types. We have world-constituting reference, which is to say, the way in which linguistic signs refer to entities which are at the same time natural signs that point to yet further entities in a complex weave which grounds our experience of and participation in the world. Things refer to other things, words to other words, and language combines with things in the formation of world.