Christianity in evolution : an exploration / Jack Mahoney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahoney, John, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Evolution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589017993

1589017994

OCLC:

748242151