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Christianity in Evolution
Jack Mahoney
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Description for Christianity in Evolution
Paperback. Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. This title explores evolutionary implications affecting other subjects of Christian belief, including the Church, the Eucharist, priesthood, and moral behavior. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 141 x 219 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
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, the fall, sacrifice, and atonement stemmed from viewing death as the penalty for ... Read more
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, the fall, sacrifice, and atonement stemmed from viewing death as the penalty for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589017696
SKU
V9781589017696
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About Jack Mahoney
Jack Mahoney is emeritus professor of moral and social theology in the University of London and a former principal of Heythrop College, University of London. He is the author of several books, including The Making of Moral Theology: A Study of the Roman Catholic Tradition.
Reviews for Christianity in Evolution
Conversing with theology from the patristic to the modern age, Mahoney's book is sure to be debated in the classroom as an alternative voice in contemporary theology. Choice The kind of project that Mahoney pursues is desperately needed in theology. Let us hope that the discussion his book is likely to produce generates further detailed reflection on these pressing questions. ... Read more