Christianity in evolution : an exploration /
Mahoney, Jack, 1931-1996
Christianity in evolution : an exploration / Jack Mahoney. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Accepting evolution -- Evolution, altruism, and the image of God -- The evolutionary achievement of Jesus -- Incarnation without the Fall -- Seeking a new paradigm -- The Church and the eucharist in evolution -- Theology in evolution.
Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created and counter its tendency to self-absorption. Primarily, however, the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering humanity into the culminating stage of its evolutionary destiny, the full sharing of God's inner life. Previously such doctrines as original sin.
9781589017993 1589017994 1589017692 9781589017696
22573/ctt2n4z4z JSTOR
Evolution--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Évolution--Aspect religieux--Église catholique.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--General.
RELIGION--Theology.
Evolution--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
BX1795.E85 / M34 2011eb
231.7/652
Christianity in evolution : an exploration / Jack Mahoney. - Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Accepting evolution -- Evolution, altruism, and the image of God -- The evolutionary achievement of Jesus -- Incarnation without the Fall -- Seeking a new paradigm -- The Church and the eucharist in evolution -- Theology in evolution.
Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created and counter its tendency to self-absorption. Primarily, however, the evolutionary achievement of Jesus was to confront and overcome death in an act of cosmic significance, ushering humanity into the culminating stage of its evolutionary destiny, the full sharing of God's inner life. Previously such doctrines as original sin.
9781589017993 1589017994 1589017692 9781589017696
22573/ctt2n4z4z JSTOR
Evolution--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Évolution--Aspect religieux--Église catholique.
RELIGION--Christian Theology--General.
RELIGION--Theology.
Evolution--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
BX1795.E85 / M34 2011eb
231.7/652