Christianity in evolution :: an exploration /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Mahoney, John, 1931-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781589017993
1589017994
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