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Summary
How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do the baldly predatory behavior and wasteful extinction of whole species fit in a Christian understanding? How does miraculous divine action, pictured so vividly in the biblical narratives, square with the inexorable march of the laws of physics? How does a God of love permit so much death and destruction?
Author Biography
Denis Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology in the School of Theology of Flinders University. An internationally acclaimed theologian, he is author of many works, including recently Ecology at the Heart of Faith (2006) and The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology (1999).
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Characteristics of the Universe Revealed by the Sciences | p. 1 |
| A Universe That Evolves at All Levels | p. 2 |
| A Universe Constituted by Patterns of Relationship | p. 5 |
| A Universe Where Natural Processes Have Their Own Integrity | p. 7 |
| A Directional Universe | p. 8 |
| The Costs of Evolution | p. 11 |
| Divine Action in the Christ-Event | p. 15 |
| Jesus' Vision of Divine Action: The Reign of God | p. 15 |
| Parables of Divine Action | p. 16 |
| Healing | p. 18 |
| The Open Table | p. 20 |
| The Community of Disciples | p. 21 |
| Divine Action for Jesus | p. 24 |
| Divine Action in the Light of the Whole Christ-Event | p. 25 |
| God Who Lovingly Waits upon Creation | p. 26 |
| The Vulnerability of Divine Love | p. 30 |
| Creation as Divine Self-Bestowal | p. 35 |
| The Specific and Historical Character of Divine Acts | p. 36 |
| Creation as the Self-Bestowal of God | p. 39 |
| Enabling and Empowering Evolutionary Emergence | p. 43 |
| Noninterventionist Divine Action | p. 45 |
| Enabling Creaturely Autonomy to Flourish | p. 47 |
| Divine Action That Accepts the Limits of Creaturely Processes | p. 50 |
| Creating through Chance and Lawfulness | p. 52 |
| Special Divine Acts | p. 57 |
| Special Acts in the Providential Guidance of Creation | p. 58 |
| Approaches to Special Divine Acts | p. 59 |
| Divine Action through Secondary Causes | p. 62 |
| God's Special Acts in Evolutionary Emergence | p. 64 |
| The Dynamism and the Creaturely Limits of Special Divine Acts | p. 65 |
| Special Divine Acts in the Life of Grace | p. 66 |
| Experiences of the Holy Spirit | p. 67 |
| Personal Providence | p. 68 |
| Disruptive Grace | p. 71 |
| Special Divine Acts in the History of Salvation | p. 72 |
| Mediation by Created Realities | p. 72 |
| Sacramental Structure of Special Divine Acts | p. 74 |
| Conclusion | p. 75 |
| Miracles and the Laws of Nature | p. 77 |
| The Miracles of Jesus | p. 78 |
| Aquinas on the Dignity of Secondary Causes | p. 80 |
| The Laws of Nature | p. 84 |
| A Theological Approach | p. 87 |
| The Divine Act of Resurrection | p. 91 |
| Resurrection: A Free Act of God from within Creation | |
| That Gives Creation Its Deepest Meaning | p. 92 |
| Central Expression of God's Act of Self-Bestowal | p. 92 |
| Evolutionary Christology | p. 94 |
| Sacrament of Salvation | p. 95 |
| Resurrection as Ontological Transformation | p. 96 |
| Resurrection Expressed in Creation through Secondary Causes | p. 99 |
| Experience of the Risen Christ in the Christian Community Today | p. 101 |
| The Easter Appearances | p. 102 |
| The Eschatological Transformation of Creation | p. 104 |
| God's Redeeming Act: Deifying Transformation | p. 107 |
| Redemption and Deification through Incarnation: Athanasius | p. 109 |
| The God-Creation Relationship | p. 109 |
| The Central Place of Christ's Death and Resurrection | p. 113 |
| Deification in Christ | p. 114 |
| Exploring a Theology of Redemption as Deifying Transformation | p. 118 |
| The Deifying Transformation of Human Beings | p. 119 |
| The Deifying Transformation of the Material Universe | p. 121 |
| The Deifying Transformation of the Biological World | p. 124 |
| A Participatory Theology of Redemption | p. 126 |
| God's Redeeming Act: Evolution, Original Sin, and the Lamb of God | p. 129 |
| The Scapegoat Mechanism | p. 129 |
| Evolutionary Science on Human Emergence | p. 131 |
| Original Grace and Original Sin in Evolutionary History | p. 134 |
| The End of Scapegoating and the Beginning of New Creation | p. 138 |
| Final Fulfillment: The Deifying Transformation of Creation | p. 143 |
| We Hope for What We Do Not See: God as Absolute Future | p. 144 |
| Hope for the Whole Creation in the New Testament: Romans 8:18-25 | p. 146 |
| Hope for the Universe in Patristic Tradition: Maximus the Confessor | p. 150 |
| The Deification of the Universe: Karl Rahner | p. 152 |
| The Deification of Matter | p. 153 |
| Radical Transformation | p. 155 |
| Real Continuity | p. 157 |
| Hope for the Animals | p. 159 |
| Prayers of Intercession | p. 167 |
| God Wants Our Participation | p. 168 |
| Sharing What Matters with the Beloved | p. 170 |
| Entrusting Ourselves to God | p. 173 |
| Prayer as Desire for God | p. 175 |
| Conclusion | p. 178 |
| Notes | p. 181 |
| Index | p. 203 |
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