Christianity in evolution [[electronic resource] ] : an exploration / / Jack Mahoney
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| Autore: |
Mahoney John <1931->
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| Titolo: |
Christianity in evolution [[electronic resource] ] : an exploration / / Jack Mahoney
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 231.7/652 |
| Soggetto topico: | Evolution - Religious aspects - Catholic Church |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Christianity in evolution |
| ISBN: | 1-58901-799-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461411503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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