The Garden of God: A Theological Cosmology

For Garca-Rivera our spiritual life with God is less about building the City of God than creating the Garden of God. The Garden of God takes Christ's self-revelation that he came to bring us life and "life abundant" as a clue to that enduring, habitable world. While Teilhard de Chardin focused on the growth of consciousness as the essence of the evolution of matter being raised to the spiritual, Garca-Rivera probes the conditions and process that lead to "life abundant." In doing so, The Ga...