Spirituality of Creation, Evolution, and Work

Catherine Keller and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Herausgeber: Haight, Roger; Kaminski, Amanda Avila; Pach, Alfred

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Produktbeschreibung

Two developments that occurred over the course of the nineteenth century had a strong impact on Christian theology. The first was a deepening of the implications of historical consciousness, and the second was the impact of science on Christian self-understanding. Marx's sociology of knowledge symbolizes the first; Darwin's analysis of evolution symbolizes the second. These intellectual developments gave rise to various forms of process philosophy and theology. Within this context, a dialogue between Christian theology and evolution has yielded dramatically new convictions and practices in Christian spirituality, especially relative to ecology. For more than three decades Catherine Keller has been reflecting on the intellectual and practical effects that an internalization of the dynamic character of reality should have upon the practice of Christian life. Her text illustrates the basic framework of dynamic becoming that science demands, whether or not one is formally a process thinker. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was an earlier figure who was more zeroed in on the phenomenon of evolution, which he encountered in a distinct way as a Christian scientist trained in geology and paleontology, as distinct from biology or genetics. Evolution explicitly informs his spirituality. These two different Christian writers, the one representing the imaginative framework of being as process and becoming, the other focused on how evolution affects intentional spiritual life, open new perspectives on the spiritual character of people's active lives of work and creativity in the world that science presents to us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 191g
• ISBN-13: 9781531503833
• ISBN-10: 1531503837
• Artikelnr.: 65831089

Autorenporträt

Roger Haight (Edited By) Roger Haight, a Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York, has written several books in the area of fundamental theology. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Alfred Pach (Edited By) Alfred Pach III is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences and Global Health at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an MDiv in Psychology and Religion from Union Theological Seminary. Amanda Avila Kaminski (Edited By) Amanda Avila Kaminski is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Texas Lutheran University, where she also serves as Director of the program in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. She has written extensively in the area of Christian spirituality.

Inhaltsangabe

I - Introduction to the Authors and Texts 1
II - The Texts 19
Catherine Keller: On Process Thinking
Selections from On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process 21
From Chapter 1: Come, My Way: Theology as Process 23
From Chapter 3: Be This Fish: Creation in Process 40
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, On Evolutionary Spirituality
Selections from The Divine Milieu 55
From Part One: The Divinisation of Our Activities 57
From Part Two: The Divinisation of Our Passivities 83
III - A Spirituality of Creativity and Work 105
Further Reading 125
About the Series 127
About the Editors 133