| Description |
vi, 144 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
The God of Evolution is an insightful, thought-provoking work that shifts the boundaries of theology by examining the traditional understanding of God and melding it with evolutionary ideas. Edwards begins by looking at the biblical stories of origin and the evolutionary world view. From there he examines the nature of God and God's power, the nature of human persons, including an exploration of original sin and grace, the divine-human relationship, and the impact of an evolutionary world view on the understanding of the Holy Spirit and the person of Jesus. In these discussions Edwards weaves together the insights of contemporary scientific thinkers and the ideas of theologians such as Teilhard de Chardin, Karl Rahner, and Jürgen Moltmann in a careful and nuanced way. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Evolution and God. The evolutionary worldview -- The Biblical stories of origin -- The God of evolution as a God of mutual friendship. The God of mutual relations: The Gospel of John; Richard of St. Victor -- The fundamental character of reality as relational -- Creation unfolding "within" God -- The God of evolution as a God of free self-limitation in love. Creation as divine self-limitation -- A God who creates through the interplay of chance and lawfulness -- Human beings before God in an evolutionary world. Human evolution -- Original sin and evolution: recent theologies -- Original sin in evolutionary context: a proposal -- Grace in evolutionary context -- The theological issue of the spiritual dimension of the human -- Evolution and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit as life-giver -- The life-giving spirit as the power of becoming in evolutionary history -- The life-giving spirit as interior presence -- The life-giving spirit as ecstatic communion -- Evolution and Jesus, the wisdom of God. Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) -- Karl Rahner (1904-1984) -- Jurgen Moltmann (1926- ) -- Reflections -- Jesus as the wisdom of God -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Trinity -- History of doctrines.
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Evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00917284
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Trinity -- History of doctrines.
(OCoLC)fst01156782
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| ISBN |
0809138549 (alkaline paper) |
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9780809138548 (alkaline paper) |
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