Christ in Evolution

Christ in Evolution

by Ilia Delio
Christ in Evolution

Christ in Evolution

by Ilia Delio

Paperback

$26.00 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

Ilia Delio transcends the debate on evolution and intelligent design to reveal the Christ who is at the center of our lives in a complex universe. She draws on mystics and theologians to show the love of God at the heart of a total redemptive process, not just physical but spiritual, cosmic, and cultural, and taking place in human consciousness.

Christ in Evolution is a lucid antidote to the current crop of "new atheism" books that argue there is no place in the universe for the notion that there may be a God, let alone a God of love. Ilia Delio offers not a "brief" against this notion, but a way of seeing the universe and our place in it with a vision that is more compelling because it is at once faithful to science and infused with spiritual insights that are "ancient and ever new."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781570757778
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 02/28/2008
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. A native of Newark, NJ, she earned doctorates in pharmacology from the New Jersey Medical School/School of Biomedical Sciences and in historical theology from Fordham University, NY, and is the recipient of a notable Templeton Course in Science and Religion award. Delio is the author of seventeen books including The Unbearable Wholeness of Being and Making All Things New and she lectures internationally on topics including evolution, artificial intelligence, consciousness, and religion. See more online at www.omegacenter.info.

Table of Contents

Foreword   John F. Haught     ix
Acknowledgments     xii
Introduction     1
Evolution, Christ, and Consciousness     15
The New Scientific Paradigm     15
Creation and Evolution     21
Axial-Period Consciousness     23
The Emergence of a New Christology     29
A Brief History of Christ     32
New Testament     32
Pauline Letters     40
The Patristic Fathers     47
Modern Period     49
Franciscan Cosmic Christology     53
Teilhard de Chardin: The Christic Universe     66
Raimon Panikkar and the Unknown Christ     83
Christophany     89
The Role of the Spirit     94
Dialogic Dialogue     97
The Transcultural Christ: Thomas Merton and Bede Griffiths     102
Thomas Merton     103
Bede Griffiths     111
Christology Reborn     123
Co-creators in Christ     138
Christ in Evolution: Technology and Extraterrestrial Life     156
Conclusion     173
Notes     181
Select Bibliography     216
Index     221

From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews