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Christianity in evolution : an exploration / Jack Mahoney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781589017993
  • 1589017994
  • 1589017692
  • 9781589017696
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Christianity in evolution.DDC classification:
  • 231.7/652 22
LOC classification:
  • BX1795.E85 M34 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)463155

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.

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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.