Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
Contents
My Evolutionary Creed -- My Lack of Faith -- Our Great Story -- Evolution: The Narrative Told Afresh -- Evolution as Story -- The Conventional Story -- The Story Told Afresh -- Symbiosis: How the Story Hangs Together -- As the Story Unfolds -- Evolutionary Theology: Meaning from the Future -- Our Pessimistic Future -- Lured by the Future -- Liberating Possibility -- Embracing the Shadow -- Evolutionary Theology -- The Promise Fulfilled -- Synergy -- An Emptiness That Overflows -- How Did It All Begin? -- What Is Energy? -- Creative Energy and Our Understanding of God -- What Is Cosmogenesis? -- The Self-Organizing Universe -- The Divine Life-Force -- Prodigiously Creative -- Aliveness as an E-merging Property -- The Lively Universe -- Enter Biology -- The Essence of Life -- Life: The Properties and the Process -- Revisiting Darwin -- Life in Context: Theological Horizons -- Relationality -- The Divine as Relational Matrix -- Divinity Reconsidered -- Windows to the Relational Matrix -- Imaging a Relational God -- Personhood Reconsidered -- Revelation as Relationship -- Revelation and the Divine Eros -- Thriving on Paradox -- The Punctuated Pattern -- The Baffling Paradox -- The Paradox of Human Suffering -- Death and Resurrection: Christian or Cosmic? -- Resurrection and Transformation -- Boundaries That No Longer Hold -- Knowing Where We Stand with Reality -- Measuring Time -- Time and Timelessness -- The Space around Us -- The Space-Time Continuum -- Beyond the Boundaries -- Embodiment -- "This Is My Body."