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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825602803321

Autore

Mahoney John <1931->

Titolo

Christianity in evolution : an exploration / / Jack Mahoney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-58901-799-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

231.7/652

Soggetti

Evolution - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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