TY - BOOK AU - Mahoney,Jack TI - Christianity in evolution: an exploration SN - 9781589017993 AV - BX1795.E85 M34 2011eb U1 - 231.7/652 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Georgetown University Press KW - Evolution KW - Religious aspects KW - Catholic Church KW - Évolution KW - Aspect religieux KW - Église catholique KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Theology KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Theology KW - fast N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=463155 ER -