Partaking of God
Subtitle: trinity, evolution, and ecology
By: Denis Edwards
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780814682524; 9780814682777
Subjects: Nature; Evolution (Biology); Creation; Christianity; Ecologie; Drie-eenheid; Human ecology; History of doctrines; Trinity
Description: The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God? Partaking of God builds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the divine Attractor and the Spirit as the Energy of Love in evolutionary emergence. Then it explores God's suffering with creatures, the humility of God in creation, church teaching on the human soul in relation to neuroscience, and grace and original sin in relationship to evolution. It culminates in a Christian theology of ecological conversion.
Notes: "A Michael Glazier book."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A personal beginning; title: Athanasius of Alexandria as resource; title: Trinity in act: creating; title: Trinity in act: deifying; title: Deep incarnation: the meaning of incarnation for the rest of the natural world; title: Darwin's "tangled bank"; title: The Attractor and the Energy of Love: Trinity in evolutionary context; title: The costs of evolution and the divine passion of love; title: A humble God and the proper autonomy of evolutionary processes; title: Neuroscience and the creation of the human soul; title: Evolution, cooperation, and the theology of original sin; title: Ecological conversion; title: Christian ecological conversion; title: The community of creation.